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Zoom Lectures on the Fundamentals of Superconductivity

Speaker Sir Anthony J. LEGGETT
Affiliation University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Schedule All lectures are scheduled from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
April 9, 2024 (Tue) - Generalities about superconductivity
April 10, 2024 (Wed) - Vector potential in quantum mechanics
April 15, 2024 (Mon) - Bose-Einstein condensation; the problem of the supercurrent metastability
April 17, 2024 (Wed) - Ginzburg-Landau (GL)theory
April 22, 2024 (Mon) - Normal state and electron-electron interactions
April 24, 2024 (Wed) - BCS theory (T=0)
April 29, 2024 (Mon) - BCS theory at finite temperatures
May 1, 2024 (Wed) - Relation of BCS and GL theories
May 6, 2024 (Mon) - The Josephson effect
May 8, 2024 (Wed) - Dirty superconductors and exotic superconductivity
Zoom Link https://hku.zoom.us/j/97061852202?pwd=OUNhc0RZc01GV28wUkxVelN4K2xxZz09
Meeting ID: 970 6185 2202
Password: 351591
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, The University of Hong Kong (The lectures will conducted over zoom in this room)
Poster https://www.physics.hku.hk/Seminar/20240409_Anthony J. Leggett_v3.pdf

Abstract

This series of lectures are intended for interested undergraduate and graduate students. They cover the fundamental aspects of classic superconductors and their explanations in terms of the BCS theory of superconductivity. No particular background will be assumed except elementary quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and rudimentary solid-state physics. 
 

Biography

Sir Anthony J. Leggett was born in March 1938 in London, United Kingdom. He is a professor emeritus at the Department of Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Professor Leggett obtained his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Oxford in 1964 and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2003 for his contributions to theory of superfluid Helium three. Professor Leggett is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Russian Academy of Sciences (foreign member), and is a Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.), the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics (U.K.) and was knighted (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II for his contributions to physics. 

 

Registration Required

Please send a message to Dr. Mingyang Liu (mingyliu@hku.hk) to make sure you will be receiving further lecture materials. Please indicate the mode of attendance (onsite or zoom).

 

Lecture Notes

April 9, 2024 (Tue) - Generalities about superconductivity
April 10, 2024 (Wed) - Vector potential in quantum mechanics

April 15, 2024 (Mon) - Bose-Einstein condensation; the problem of the supercurrent metastability

April 17, 2024 (Wed) - Ginzburg-Landau (GL)theory

April 22, 2024 (Mon) - Normal state and electron-electron interactions
April 24, 2024 (Wed) - BCS theory (T=0)
April 29, 2024 (Mon) - BCS theory at finite temperatures
May 1, 2024 (Wed) - Relation of BCS and GL theories
May 6, 2024 (Mon) - The Josephson effect
May 8, 2024 (Wed) - Dirty superconductors and exotic superconductivity

 

 (Joint Lectures of the Department of Physics & HK Institute of Quantum Science & Technology)

 

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.