Introduction to Superconductivity: Fundamentals and Applications

July 3-28, 2000, Boulder, Colorado, USA

• V. Ambegaokar (Cornell University) and Robert A. Smith (University of Birmingham)
  Ambegaokar: Lecture I: Green's Functions, Matsubara and Cooper
  Ambegaokar: Lecture II: BCS - Gorkov, Ordinary and Spin-Flip Impurities, Gauge Invariance
  Smith: Lecture III: Suppression of Superconductivity by Disorder: Perturbation Theory
  Smith: Lecture IV: Suppression of Superconductivity by Disorder: Beyond Perturbation Theory
  Ambegaokar: Lecture V: Introduction to Strong Coupling
  Smith: Lecture VI: Strong Coupling and Disorder
• L. Balents (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  Lecture I: Quantum Mechanics of Vortices
  Lecture II: Vortex Pairing and Fractionalization
• G. Boebinger (NFML, Los Alamos)
  Lecture I: The Abnormal Normal State of the High-Tc's...and Why Use High Magnetic Fields?
  Lecture II: Low-Dimensional Transport and Quasiparticle Confinement.
  Lecture III: Revealing Quantum Critical Points in the High Tc Phase Diagram.
• G. W. Crabtree (Argonne National Laboratory)
  The vortex state of high temperature superconductors
  Lecture I: Equilibrium Vortex Phase Diagram Experimental Measurements
  Lecture II: Dynamics of Driven Vortices Flow in the Liquid and Solid States
• D. Dessau (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• A. T. Dorsey (University of Florida)
  Fluctuations and non-equilibrium phenomena in superconductors
  Lecture I: Introduction to the Equilibrium and Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau Theories of Superconductors
  Lecture II: Equilibrium and Dynamic Fluctuations in Superconductors
  Lecture III: Vortex Motion in Type-II Superconductors
  Lecture IV: Non-equilibrium Phenomena: Pattern Formation in Superconductors
• S. M. Girvin (Indiana University)
  Lecture I: Just What is Superconductivity Anyway? (An Embarrassingly Simple Introduction)
  Lecture II: Introduction to the Kosterlitz-Thouless Phase Transition
  Public Lecture: Mr. Feynman's Quantum Mechanics: A Field Guide for Curious Characters
• L. H. Greene (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
  Lecture I: Planar Quasiparticle Tunneling Spectroscopy: Introduction and Experimental Methods
  Lecture II: Tunneling into High-Temperature Superconductors: Spectroscopy of Broken Symmetries
  Lecture III: Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry: Background and Measurements
• D. Larbalestier (University of Wisconsin)
  Lecture I: Essential Materials Properties for Useful Conductors (LTS and HTS). Flux Pinning, Irreversibility Fields, Percolation and Inhomogeneities
  Lecture II: Development of High Jc in Conductor Forms and the Limitations imposed by available Processing Routes. Brief Outline of Applications Specific Conductor Demands
• A. H. MacDonald (Indiana University)
• J. M. Martinis (NIST, Boulder)
  Lecture I: Low Temperature Detectors: Applications and Overview
  Lecture II: Using Usadel Equations
  Lecture III: SQUIDs and Low Noise Measurement Technique
• K. A. Moler (Stanford University)
  Lecture I: Flux Quantization and Order Parameter Symmetry in Superconductors
  Lecture II: Interlayer Coupling in Cuprate Superconductors
  Lecture III: Mesoscopic Magnetic Measurement Techniques
• V. Moshchalkov (Laboratory of Solid State Physics and Magnetism)
  Lecture I: Nanostructured Superconductors: How to Enhance Vortex Pinning and Critical Fields?
• L. Radzihovsky (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  Lecture I: Fluctuations, Dissipation, and Phase Transitions in Vortex States of Type II Superconductors
• D. Ralph (Cornell University)
  Superconductivity in Nanoparticles
  Lecture I: Thinking about Interacting Electrons in Systems with Discrete Energy Levels
  Lecture II: Superconductivity from the Micron to the Nanometer Scale
  Lecture III: The Destructive effect of a Magnetic Field - Orbital vs Spin Pair Breaking
• R. E. Sager (Quantum Design, Inc.)
  Lecture I: Building a Successful Business in Superconductivity
  Lecture II: A Brief History of Quantum Design's Products
• J. A. Sauls (Northwestern University)
  Lecture I: Unconventional Pairing, Broken Symmetry and Superconductivity
  Lecture II: Fermi-Liquid Theory of Superconductivity
  Lecture III: Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Superconductors
  Lecture IV: Electrodynamics and Transport in Unconventional Superconductors
• G. Schoen (Karlsruhe)
  Josephson Junction Qubits
• A. Sudbø (Trondheim)
  Lecture I: Introduction to Dual Description of Type-II Superconductors
  Lecture II: Duality, Vortices, and Criticality in 3D Extreme Type-II Superconductors
  Lecture III: Geometric Properties of Critical Fluctuations in Abelian Gauge-Theories
• J. Talvacchio (Northrop Grumman STC)
  Lecture I: HTS Materials and Devices for RF Applications
  Lecture II: HTS Materials and Devices for Digital Applications
• Zlatko Tešanovic (Johns Hopkins University)
  Lecture I: Vortices and Quasiparticles in Superconductors: A Modern Primer
• N.-C. Yeh (California Institute of Technology)
  Lecture I: Spatially Resolved Tunneling Spectroscopy and Spin-Polarized Quasiparticle Transport in Cuprate Superconductors

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