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