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Calendar

This calendar provides the topics covered during each lecture, and the reading assignments corresponding to each lecture. The reading assignments refer to the course textbook, Foundations of Applied Superconductivity, by T. P. Orlando and K. A. Delin, Addison-Wesley, 1991.

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
1 Survey of Superconductivity Chapter 1
2 Time constants: circuits and fields 2.1 - 2.3
3 Magnetoquasistatics 2.4
4 First London eqn.; perfect conductivity 2.5 - 2.6
5 Second London eqn. 3.1 - 3.2
6 Lumped circuits; two - fluid model 3.3 - 3.4
7 Electromagnetic Power 3.5
8 Transmission lines 4.2, 4.4
9 Perfect Diamagnetism 4.5
10 Macroscopic Quantum Model 5.1 - 5.4
11 Flux quantization 5.5
12 Josephson tunneling 8.1 - 8.2
13 Lumped junctions; SQUIDs 8.3 - 8.4
14 Junction resistance 9.1 - 9.2
15 dc and ac response, dc SQUIDs; time constants 9.3 - 9.6
16 Josephson Circuits and Devices I
17 Josephson Circuits and Devices II
18 Josephson Circuits and Devices III
19 Quantum Circuits
20 Quantum Circuits II
21 Quantum Circuits III
22 Modified second London eqn. and Thermo 6.3 - 6.4
23 Critical Fieds, Flux Flow, Pinning 6.5, 7.1 - 7.5
24 Ginzburg - Landau theory 10.1 - 10.3
25 Microscopic interactions and BCS
26 BCS