Media Storage Type : DVD-ROM
NPTEL Course Name : Superconductivity
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Prof. A.V. Mahajan
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Bombay
NPTEL Lecture Count : 40
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Historical review and a survey of properties of superconductors
Lecture 1 - Electrical conductivity and heat capacity followed by problem solving
Lecture 2 - Magnetic susceptibility and Hall Effect followed by problem solving
Lecture 1 - Two fluid model for superconductivity and London equations
Lecture 2 - Solution of London equations and free energy calculations
Lecture 1 - Basic thermodynamics and magnetism
Lecture 2 - Application to the superconducting transition followed by problem solving
Lecture 1 - Free energy formulation
Lecture 2 - Determination of coefficients Alpha and Beta in the absence of fields and gradients
Lecture 3 - GL equations in presence of fields currents and gradients
Lecture 4 - Coherence length, flux quantum, field penetration in a slab
Lecture 5 - Type II superconductivity, fluxoid quantisation
Lecture 6 - Critical field of thin films
Lecture 7 - Field and order parameter variation inside a vortex
Lecture 1 - Cooper-Pair Problem - Schroedinger Equation for Two Interacting Electrons
Lecture 2 - Cooper-Pair Problem - Solution for Zero Center-of-Mass Momentum
Lecture 3 - Cooper-Pair Problem - Bound States
Lecture 4 - Spatial Extent of Cooper-Pair Wavefunction
Lecture 5 - Cooper-Pair Problem Using Second Quantization
Lecture 6 - Electron-Phonon Interaction in Metals
Lecture 7 - Macroscopic Coherent States of Harmonic Oscillator
Lecture 8 - BCS Theory - BCS Wavefunction
Lecture 9 - BCS Wavefunction in terms of 2m-particle states
Lecture 10 - Number of Particles and Phase as Canonically Conjugate Variables
Lecture 11 - BCS Reduced Hamiltonian
Lecture 12 - Variational Determination of the Energy of the BCS Ground State.
Lecture 13 - Elementary Excitations and the Bogoliubov-Valatin Transformation
Lecture 14 - Bogoliubov-Valatin Canonical Transformation and the Model Hamiltonian
Lecture 15 - Superconducting Energy Gap and Its Temperature Dependence
Lecture 16 - Superconducting Transition Temperature
Lecture 17 - Heat Capacity and other Thermodynamic Properties
Lecture 1 - Quasiparticle Tunneling - Energy-Level Diagrams
Lecture 2 - Quasiparticle Tunneling - Microscopic Theory
Lecture 3 - Pair Tunneling and the Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory
Lecture 4 - Pair Tunneling, Modified Bogoliubov-Valatin Transformation and the Josephson Effects
Lecture 1 - Equivalent circuit for Josephson junction and analysis
Lecture 2 - Josephson junctions in a field, SQUIDs and other application
Lecture 1 - Experimental probes of superconductivity - 1
Lecture 2 - Experimental probes of superconductivity - 2
Lecture 1 - Unconventional superconductors