Date |
Lec |
Topic |
Readings |
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Sept 4 |
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Survey of Superconductivity |
Chapter 1 |
9 |
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Time constants: circuits and fields |
2.1-2.3 |
11 |
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Magnetoquasistatics |
2.4 |
16 |
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First London eqn.;perfect conductivity |
2.5-2.6 |
18 |
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Second London eqn. |
3.1-3.2 |
23 |
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Lumped circuits; two-fluid model |
3.3-3.4 |
25 |
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Electromagnetic Power |
3.5 |
30 |
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Transmission lines |
4.2, 4.4 |
Oct 2 |
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Perfect Diamagnetism |
4.5 |
7 |
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Macroscopic Quantum Model |
5.1-5.4 |
9 |
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Flux quantization; |
5.5 |
14 |
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Josephson tunneling |
8.1-8.2 |
16 |
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Lumped junctions; SQUIDs |
8.3-8.4 |
21 |
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Junction resistance |
9.1-9.2 |
23 |
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dc and ac response, dc SQUIDs; time constants |
9.3-9.6 |
28 |
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Josephson Circuits and Devices I |
|
30 |
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Josephson Circuits and Devices II |
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Nov 4 |
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Modified second London eqn. and Thermo |
6.3--6.4 |
6 |
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Critical Fieds, Flux Flow, Pinning |
6.5, 7.1--7.5 |
11 |
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Holiday |
|
13 |
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Ginzburg-Landau theory |
10.1-10.3 |
18 |
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Microscopic interactions and BCS |
|
20 |
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BCS |
|
25 |
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BCS |
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Dec 2 |
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Quantum Tunneling devices and detectors |
|
4 |
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Quantum Circuits I |
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9 |
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Quantum Circuits II |
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