Handbook of Superconductivity

The first handbook in this field, The Handbook of Superconductivity covers both classic superconductivity related topics and the new high temperature superconductivity. Numerous properties including thermal, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, phase diagrams and spectroscopic crystallographic structures are presented for many superconductor types. Critical fields, critical currents, coherence lengths, penetration depths and transition temperatures are tabulated.

Key Features
• First handbook on Superconductivity
• Coherence lengths and depths are tabulated
• Crystallographic structures of over 100 superconductor types
• Main results of several theories are submitted
• Phase diagrams for synthesizing new superconductors are included

Dr. Charles Poole is Professor Emeritus of the Physics Department at the University of South Carolina and was appointed a fellow of the International EPR/ESR Society at the Rocky Mountain conference held in Denver in July of 1998. Professor Poole has carried out significant research in ferroelectrics and phase transitions in solids. For twenty years he edited the journal Magnetic Resonance Review and has been on the editorial board of the Bulletin of Magnetic Resonance.

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Ever since a 1986 article by Bednorz and M<:u>eller launched the quest for a room temperature superconductor, the physics literature on this subject has burgeoned. Promoted as the first such handbook, this volume's 14 chapters (by US contributors mostly) encompass both classic superconductivity and newer high temperature superconductivity. Following introductory chapters offering definitions, units and conversion factors, a glossary, and summaries of the properties of the normal and superconducting states, the next chapter presents the results of the main models and theories used to explain experimental data. Subsequent papers discuss properties of the many superconductor types: thermal, electrical magnetic, mechanical, phase diagrams, and spectroscopic crystallographic structures of some 100 superconductor types. Critical fields and currents, coherence lengths, penetration depths, and transition temperatures are calculated. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dr. Farach has received international, national, and university awards. He is a member of the Academy of Science of Argentina and a Fellow of the American Society.

My research is in the area of theoretical condensed matter physics, especially the foundations of statistical physics. I have published extensively in the area of critical phenomena and phase transitions, including the text "Introduction to Renormalization Group Methods in Physics" with my co-authors Horacio Farach and Charles Poole. My most recent interests focus on numerical simulation of the mixed state in type-I superconductors, the analytical properties of the partition function, and the origins irreversibility.