Superconductivity Begins With H: Both Properly Understood, And Misunderstood: Superconductivity Basics Rethought

Superconductivity Begins With H: Both Properly Understood, And Misunderstood: Superconductivity Basics Rethought
Author: Jorge E Hirsch
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811216878

This iconoclastic book proposes that superconductivity is misunderstood in contemporary science and that this hampers scientific and technological development. Superconductivity is the ability of some metals to carry electric current without resistance at very low temperatures. Properly understanding superconductivity would facilitate finding materials that superconduct at room temperature, providing great benefits to society.The conventional BCS theory of superconductivity, developed in 1957 and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972, is generally believed to fully explain the lower temperature 'conventional superconductors' but not the more recently discovered 'high temperature superconductors', for which the charge carriers are positive Holes rather than negative electrons. Instead, this book proposes the holistic view that Holes are responsible for superconductivity in all materials. It explains in simple terms how the most fundamental property of all superconductors, that they expel H-fields (the Meissner effect), can be understood with Hole carriers and cannot be explained by BCS. It describes the historical development of the conventional theory and why it went astray, and credits pre-BCS researchers for important insights that were forgotten after BCS but are in fact relevant for the proper understanding of superconductivity.The book's author, Jorge E Hirsch, is a renowned expert in the field of condensed matter physics who has published over 250 articles on the subject. He has developed the theory of 'Hole superconductivity', the focus of this book, over the last 30 years. He is also the inventor of the H-index, a bibliometric measure of scientific impact which, he admits in this book, fails to identify high scientific achievement in the field of superconductivity.

Electron Transport in Nanosystems

Electron Transport in Nanosystems
Author: Janez Bonca
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2008-10-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 140209146X

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Electron Transport in Nanosystems Yalta, Ukraine 17-21 September 2007

Electron Correlation in New Materials and Nanosystems

Electron Correlation in New Materials and Nanosystems
Author: Kurt Scharnberg
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2007-05-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1402056591

The articles collected in this book cover a wide range of materials with extraordinary superconducting and magnetic properties. For many of the materials studied, strong electronic correlations provide a link between these two phenomena which were long thought to be highly antagonistic. The book reports both the progress in our understanding of fundamental physical processes and the advances made towards the development of devices.

Concepts in Electron Correlation

Concepts in Electron Correlation
Author: Alex C. Hewson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401002134

The NATO sponsored Advanced Research Workshop on "Concepts in Electron Correlation" took place on the Croatian island of Hvar during the period from the 29th of September to the 3rd of October, 2002. The topic of electron correlation is a fundamental one in the field of condensed matter, and one that is being very actively studied both experimentally and theoretically at the present time. The manifestations of electron cor relation are diverse, and play an important role in systems ranging from high temperature superconductors, heavy fermions, manganite compounds with colossal magnetoresistance, transition metal compounds with metal insulator transitions, to mesoscopic systems and quantum dots. The aim of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for a dialogue between exper imentalists and theoreticians to assess the current state of understanding, and to set an agenda for future work. There was also a follow-up workshop on the same topic where the presentations included more background and introductory material for younger researchers in the field. The papers presented in these proceedings clearly demonstrate the di versity of current research on electron correlation. They show that real progress is being made in characterising systems experimentally and in developing theoretical approaches for a quantitative comparison with ex periment. The more one learns, however, the more there is to understand, and many of the contributions help to map out the territory which has yet to be explored. We hope that the articles in this volume will be a stimulus for such future work.

The Insect Viruses

The Insect Viruses
Author: Lois K. Miller
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 446
Release: 1998
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780306458811

Examines insect virus families found primarily or exclusively in insects, covering all major families of insect-selective viruses except for the baculoviruses. Included are the established families of insect viruses, the newly recognized ascovirus family, and the nudiviruses. The large DNA viruses a

From Semiconductors to Proteins: Beyond the Average Structure

From Semiconductors to Proteins: Beyond the Average Structure
Author: S.J.L. Billinge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1461506131

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, materials science, and engineering, with length scales ranging from Angstroms up to millimeters. The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature. Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series. M.F. Thorpe, Series Editor E-mail: [email protected] East Lansing, Michigan, November 200 I v PREFACE The study of the atomic structure of crystalline materials began at the beginning of the twentieth century with the discovery by Max von Laue and by W.H. and W.L. Bragg that crystals diffract x-rays. At that time, even the existence of atoms was controversial.

Circuit Analysis

Circuit Analysis
Author: Leonard J. Tung
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2001
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789810240516

This volume is intended as a textbook for a first course in electrical engineering. It is divided into two parts, for a two-semester coverage. The first part deals with circuit elements, resistive circuits, circuit theorems, circuit topology, and the state-variable method. The presentation of the state-variable method is a special feature. The authors believe that the natural way to analyze RLC circuits is to use the state-variable method rather than second- or high-order ordinary differential equations. By choosing capacitor voltages and inductor currents in an RLC circuit as state variables, the so-called state equations can by systematically obtained through network topology. Of particular interest is the approach employing Thevenin's theorem and Norton's theorem to find state equations without using circuit topology. The second part of the book covers sinusoidal stead-state analysis, two-port networks, the Fourier series, the Fourier transform, and the Laplace transform. Great effort has been devoted to presenting the subjects of the Fourier series, the Fourier transform, and the Laplace transform with many practical circuits. Thus, we hope that the reader will be better motivated to learn rather abstract concepts such as complex frequency and frequency response.