2016/2017 Experimentalphysik Master (Schlüsselkonzepte)

4a: Cooper Pairs 4b:Phase Transitions

Nice general artilcle: Introduction to the History of Superconductivity

4a. Formation of Cooper Pairs in Solids, Nuclei and Neutron Stars
Literature:

• "The surfaces of compact systems: from nuclei to stars"
  (Kapitel 2.2: Bose-Einstein Condensation", 3 Pages)
• Baym: "BCS from Nuclei and Neutron Stars to Quark Matter and Cold Atoms" in BCS: 50 Years (SLUB online) esp, S 509-515 (6 Pages)
• Ibach, Lüth, Solid State Physics:
  10.4: The BCS Ground State (9 Pages)

4b. Phase Transition to Condensate as f(T) for Superconductor, Ferromagnet  and Higgsfield    

Literature:

• Ginzburg-Landau-Theory of Phase Transitions (10 Pages)
• W.Bernreuther:  CP Violation and Baryogenesis (Chaoter 5+5.1, S.19-25)