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NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. Saurabh Basu
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Guwahati
NPTEL Lecture Count : 17
NPTEL Course Size : 5.9 GB
NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included
NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Historical introduction of superconductivity
Lecture 2 - Meissner effect, Electrodynamics of Superconductors, coherence length and penetration depth
Lecture 3 - Electron Pairing, Basics of BCS Theory
Lecture 4 - BCS ground state, variational calculation, expression for Tc
Lecture 5 - Order parameter, Free energy functional, Ginzburg-Landau (GL) Theory, GL equations
Lecture 6 - London Equations, Flux quantization
Lecture 7 - Thermodynamic properties of superconductors, specific heat
Lecture 8 - Experimental determination of Superconducting properties
Lecture 9 - Unconventional Superconductivity, Uemura plot, High-Tc superconductivity, d-wave pairing, ARPES
Lecture 10 - Singlet and triplet states of two s =1/2, magnetic Hamiltonian
Lecture 11 - t-J model, discrete symmetry groups, example square lattice
Lecture 12 - Cuprate Superconductors, electron vs hole doped superconductors
Lecture 13 - Non-Fermi Liquid Theory, Adiabatic continuity
Lecture 14 - Quasiparticle lifetime, breakdown of Fermi Liquid Theory in cuprate superconductors
Lecture 15 - Josephson junctions, Josephson equations
Lecture 16 - Numerical Differentiation
Lecture 17 - Richardson's extrapolation