1st Edition
High Temperature Superconductors And Other Superfluids
Preface
Liquid helium and Bose-gas
Liquid helium and Bose-Einstein condensation
Weakly interacting Bose-gas
Charged Bose-gas
Expulsion of a magnetic field by charged bosons
Near two-dimensional bosons
BCS theory of superconductivity
Ground state and excitations
Fröhlich Hamiltonian
The BCS approximation for the electron-electron interaction
Ground state and excitations
Hallmarks of the BCS superconductivity
The Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect
BCS gap, critical temperature and tunneling
Isotope effect
Heat capacity
Sound attenuation
Nuclear spin relaxation rate
Thermal conduction of the BCS superconductor
Intermediate coupling superconductivity
Electron-phonon interaction in a normal metal
Eliashberg extension of the BCS theory
Strongly coupled electrons and phonons
Breakdown of the Migdal approach
Small polarons and bipolarons
Exact solution λ à ∞
Polaron band and self-energy
Phonons in a strongly coupled system
Transition from electron to small polaron
Biopolaronic instability
Spin polarons and bipolarons
Strong coupling superconductivity
Polaronic superconductivity
Copper pairing of nonadiabatic carriers
High Te
Normal state of a polaronic superconductor
Biopolaronic superconductivity
Biopolaron band and repulsion
Ground state and excitations of a bioplaronic liquid
T — n phase diagram
Mapping a charged Bose-gas
Bipolaron electrodynamics
Theoretical models of high-Te oxides
Breakdown of the Fermi-liquid approach
Non Fermi-liquid alternatives
Bipolaron theory of high-Te oxides
Basic model of CuO2 plane
Normal state
Spin gap in NMR and neutron scattering
Anderson localization of biopolarons
The Hall effect and resistivity
Thermoelectric power
Infrared conductivity
C-axis transport
Superconducting state
Isotope effect
Heat capacity
Thermal conductivity
London penetration depth
Upper critical field
Gap, superconducting order parameter and coherence length
Angle-resolved photoemission
Insulating and overdoped materials
Metal-insulator transition
Overdoped materials
Conclusion
References
Author index
Subject index
Biography
A S Alexandrov, Nevill Mott
