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Quantum Liquids: Bose Condensation and Cooper Pairing in Condensed-Matter Systems [Pehme köide]

(Macarthur Professor and Professor of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x172x18 mm, kaal: 776 g, 46 line drawings
  • Sari: Oxford Graduate Texts
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2022
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0192856944
  • ISBN-13: 9780192856944
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 416 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 245x172x18 mm, kaal: 776 g, 46 line drawings
  • Sari: Oxford Graduate Texts
  • Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2022
  • Kirjastus: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0192856944
  • ISBN-13: 9780192856944
Starting from first principles, this book introduces the closely related phenomena of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing, in which a very large number of single particles or pairs of particles are forced to behave in exactly the same way, and explores their consequences in condensed matter
systems.

Eschewing advanced formal methods, the author uses simple concepts and arguments to account for the various qualitatively new phenomena which occur in Bose-condensed and Cooper-paired systems, including but not limited to the spectacular macroscopic phenomena of superconductivity and superfluidity.
The physical systems discussed include liquid 4-He, the BEC alkali gases, 'classical' superconductors, superfluid 3-He, 'exotic' superconductors and the recently stabilized Fermi alkali gases. The book should be accessible to beginning graduate students in physics or advanced undergraduates.

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A book of obvious and permanent appeal, written by a towering figure in the field. * Frank Wilczek, Nobel laureate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology * Offers many original insights, ... clearly and with authority. * John Chalker, University of Oxford * Tony Leggett is widely known as one of the finest theoretical physicists in the world, and has a reputation for extremely clear and insightful writing. * A.P. Mackenzie, University of St Andrews *

Preface to the Paperback Edition v
Preface vii
List of symbols
xiii
1 Quantum liquids
1(30)
1.1 Indistinguishability and the symmetry of the many-body wave function
3(5)
1.2 The Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein distributions: BEC in a noninteracting gas
8(5)
1.3 Cooper pairing
13(2)
1.4 The experimental systems
15(5)
1.5 Superconductivity and superfluidity: basic phenomenology
20(11)
Appendix
26(5)
2 BEC: Its definition, origin, occurrence, and consequences
31(40)
2.1 Definition of BEC in an interacting system
31(3)
2.2 The order parameter and the superfluid velocity; alternative definitions of BEC
34(6)
2.3 Why should BEC occur in an interacting system? When does it (not)?
40(6)
2.4 Pseudo-BEC in a Fermi system (Cooper pairing)
46(7)
2.5 The consequences of BEC: preview of coming attractions
53(7)
2.6 Fragmented BEC
60(11)
Appendices
63(8)
3 Liquid 4He
71(42)
3.1 Anomalous properties of the He-II phase
72(1)
3.2 Direct evidence for BEC in He-II
73(3)
3.3 The two-fluid model of He-II: static effects
76(7)
3.4 The two-fluid model: dynamical effects
83(8)
3.5 Quantized vortices, phase slip and the Josephson effect
91(7)
3.6 The excitation spectrum of liquid He-II
98(4)
3.7 Microscopic theories of He-II
102(11)
4 The Bose alkali gases
113(52)
4.1 The atoms: structure, trapping, and diagnostics
113(5)
4.2 s-wave scattering and effective interaction
118(5)
4.3 The Gross-Pitaevskii equation: some simple applications
123(8)
4.4 The Bogoliubov approximation
131(3)
4.5 Coherence and interference in dilute alkali Bose gases
134(11)
4.6 Optical lattices
145(5)
4.7 Signatures of superfluidity in the BEC alkali gases
150(15)
Appendix
157(8)
5 Classical superconductivity
165(86)
5.1 The normal state
165(5)
5.2 The effective electron-electron interaction
170(5)
5.3 The Cooper instability
175(3)
5.4 BCS theory at T = 0
178(8)
5.5 Excited states and finite-temperature BCS theory
186(4)
5.6 The two-fluid model for superconductors: the Meissner effect
190(8)
5.7 The Ginzburg-Landau theory
198(10)
5.8 Generalizations of BCS: the "non-pair-breaking" case
208(8)
5.9 Pair-breaking effects
216(7)
5.10 The Josephson effect
223(28)
Appendices
228(23)
6 Superfluid 3He
251(32)
6.1 The normal phase of liquid 3He
251(3)
6.2 Anisotropic Cooper pairing
254(6)
6.3 Generalized Ginzburg-Landau approach: spin fluctuation feedback
260(5)
6.4 Spontaneously broken spin-orbit symmetry and spin dynamics
265(7)
6.5 Supercurrents, textures and defects
272(11)
Appendix
281(2)
7 Cuprate superconductivity
283(66)
7.1 Introduction
283(1)
7.2 The cuprates: composition, structure, and phase diagram
284(11)
7.3 The cuprates: principal experimental properties
295(1)
7.4 Normal state at optimal doping
296(6)
7.5 The "pseudogap" regime
302(2)
7.6 Superconducting state
304(9)
7.7 Some preliminary comments on the experimental data
313(1)
7.8 What do we know for sure about cuprate superconductivity?
314(12)
7.9 The cuprates: questions and ideas
326(10)
7.10 Novel consequences of Cooper pairing in the cuprates
336(13)
Appendices
346(3)
8 Miscellaneous topics
349(24)
8.1 Noncuprate "exotic" superconductors
349(6)
8.2 Liquid 3He in aerogel
355(3)
8.3 Supersolids
358(6)
8.4 Fermi alkali gases: the BEC-BCS crossover
364(9)
Appendix
371(2)
Bibliography 373(8)
Index 381
Anthony J.Leggett was born in London, England in March 1938.He attended Balliol College, Oxford where he majored in Literae Humaniores (classical languages and literature, philosophy and Greco-Roman history), and thereafter Merton College, Oxford where he took a second undergraduate degree in Physics. He completed a D.Phil. degree in theoretical physics under the supervision of D.ter Haar. After postdoctoral research in Urbana, Kyoto and elsewhere he joined the faculty of the University of Sussex (UK) in 1967, being promoted to Reader in 1971 and to Professor in 1978. In 1983 he became John D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a position he currently holds. His principal research interests lie in the areas of condensed matter physics, particularly high-temperature superconductivity, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.