Time and location:

• Time: Mon Wed 1:00 - 2:20 p.m.
• Place: 276 Loomis Laboratory

Instructor:

• A.J. Leggett (2113 ESB) Office hour 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Friday

TA:

• AtMa Chan atma.pochan at gmail dot com

• Course announcement

• Syllabus and schedule of lectures (provisional)

• Problem Set 4 Due in the 598sc homework box (2nd floor Loomis) by 1 p.m. on Mon. 29 Oct. (Problem sets 1 - 3 were due in the first part of this course SC1).

• Lecture 1. Non-BCS Superconductivity: Diagnostics
• Lecture 2. Non-cuprate exotics I: BKBO, MgB2, alkali fullerides
• Lecture 3. Non-cuprate Exotics, II: Heavy-fermions, Ruthenates, Or-ganics
• Lecture 4. The cuprate superconductors: generalities ( composition, structure, phase diagram . . . )
• Lecture 5. Normal-state Properties: Optimal Doping: ( + overdoped regime)
• Lecture 6. The phase diagram: the 'pseudogap' regime. Systematics of T_c -- with additional notes on the last page
• Lecture 7. Superconducting-state properties I (static + transport)
• Lecture 8. Superconducting state II: Spectroscopic probes. Preliminary overview of the experimental situation
• Lecture 9. What do we know for sure about the cuprate superconductors?
• Lecture 10. What do we know for sure about the cuprate superconductors? II. Symmetry of the order parameter
• Lecture 11. The cuprate phase diagram revisited
• Lecture 12. Microscopic Theories of Cuprate Superconductivity: A Smorgasbord
• Lecture 13. Non-cuprate exotics III: The ferropnictide (FeAs) superconductors; engineered mesoscopic superconductivity