Condensed Matter

Resources

• superconductivity
  • bcs theory
    • Theory of the Meissner Effect in Superconductors. John Bardeen. Physical Review. Vol. 97 No. 6 (March 1955) 1724–1725.
    • Bound Electron Pairs in a Degenerate Fermi Gas. Leon Cooper. Physical Review. Vol. 104 No. 4 (November 1956): 1189–1190.
    • Microscopic Theory of Superconductivity. John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer. Physical Review. Vol. 106 No. 1 (April 1957): 162–164.
    • Theory of Superconductivity. John Bardeen, Leon Cooper, John Robert Schrieffer. Physical Review. Vol. 108 No. 5 (December 1957): 1175–1204.
    • Two-Fluid Model of Superconductivity. John Bardeen. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 1 (1958): 399–400.
  • commerce
    • American Magnetics
    • American Superconductor
    • Colorado Superconductor. Educational superconductor kits.
  • education
    • A Teacher's Guide to Superconductivity for High School Students. Robert W. Dull & H. Richard Kerchner. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
    • superconductors.org
  • high T_c
    • Nobel Prize in Physics 1987 to Bednorz & Müller "for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic materials".
    • Possible high T_c superconductivity in the Ba−La−Cu−O system. J.G. Bednorz and K.A. Müller. Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter. Vol. 64 No. 2 (June 1986): 189–193.
    • Bulk superconductivity at 36 K in La_1.8Sr_0.2CuO₄. R.J. Cava, R.B. van Dover, B. Batlogg, and E.A. Rietman. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 58 No. 4 (26 January 1987): 408–410.
    • Superconductivity at 93 K in a new mixed-phase Yb-Ba-Cu-O compound system at ambient pressure. M.K. Wu, J. R. Ashburn, C.J. Torng, P.H. Hor, R.L. Meng, L. Gao, Z.J. Huang, Y.Q. Wang, and C.W. Chu. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 58 No. 9 (2 March 1987): 908–910. This was the most cited scientific paper of 1987 and the 6th most cited of the 1980s despite containing an intentional typo.
    • Superconductivity above 130 K in the Hg-Ba-Ca-Cu-O system. A. Schilling, et al. Nature. Vol. 363 (6 May 1993): 56–58.
    • Superconductivity up to 164 K in HgBa₂Ca_m-1Cu_mO_2m+2+δ under quasihydrostatic pressures. L. Gao, et al. Physical Review B. Vol. 50 No. 6 (1 August 1994): 4260–4263.
    • Superconductivity at 39 K in Magnesium Diboride. Jun Nagamatsu, et al. Nature. Vol. 410 (1 March 2001): 63–64.
    • Conventional superconductivity at 203 kelvin at high pressures in the sulfur hydride system. A.P. Drozdov, M.I. Eremets, I.A. Troyan, V. Ksenofontov & S.I. Shylin. Nature. Vol. 525 No. 7567 (3 September 2015): 73–76.
  • magnetic leviation
    • Magplane Technology Group
    • ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH. Maglev train design and manufacture.
  • research
    • Applied Superconductivity Center. University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • International Superconductivity Technology Center
    • Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston (TCSUH)
  • Miscellaneous
    • Keeping it Cool. Kurt Riesselmann. FermiNews. Vol. 20 (October 2000).
    • Superconductivity. University of Arkansas historical marker for Sheng & Hermann's record.
• superfluidity
  • Viscosity of Liquid Helium below the λ-Point. Pyotr Kapitza. Nature. Vol. 141 (1938): 74 & 75.
  • New Phenomena Connected with Heat Flow in Helium II. Allen, J.F. & H. Jones. Nature. Vol. 141 (1938): 243–244.
  • Transport Phenomena in Helium II. Laszlo Tisza. Nature. Vol. 141 (1938): 643–644 & 913.
  • Flow of Liquid Helium II. Allen, J.F. & A. Misener. Nature. Vol. 141 (1938): 75.
• Video on demand
  • Physics for the 21st century (2010)
    • Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter