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Chung-Yu Mou 03-5742537 office: Department of Physics (物理系) Room 514

Course description (課程目標)

This course is particularly designed for students who want to join the research on superconductivity. It will cover the basic theoretical background and experimental techniques required for entering into the frontier research on superconductivity

• Phenomena of superconductivity
  -- Discovery of superconductivity and surprises
  -- Early approaches: two fluid model, London equation, etc
  -- The Ginzburg-Landau Theory
  -- Magnetic properties of Type I and II superconductors
  -- Electrodynamics of superconductors
  -- Fluctuation effects
  
• Microscopic Mechanism – the BCS superconductors
  -- Elementary quantum many-particle theory
  -- The BCS theory
  -- Tunneling and Josephson effects
  -- The Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations and their applications
  -- Field theory approach and derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau equations
  -- Strong-coupling theory and the Eliashberg equation
  
• Unconventional superconductors
  -- Discovery of high temperature superconductors and surprises
  -- The Fermi liquid of the normal state
  -- Resonance valence bond (RVB) model and other models
  -- Other unconventional superconductors
  
• Spectroscopy method
  -- Introduction of spectroscopies
  -- X-ray spectroscopy
  -Introduction to advanced X-ray sources
  -Interaction of X-rays with matter
  -Photoemission and ARPES
  -X-ray absorption
  -X-ray scattering
  -- Other spectroscopy methods
  -Tunneling spectroscopy
  -Pump-probe spectroscopy
  -Neutron spectroscopy
  -Raman spectroscopy
  

Textbooks

Course grading (計分方式)

• Term paper on subjects specified in below (100%):
  1.ARPES study of cuprate superconductors
  2.Status report of understanding superconductivity in twisted bi-layer graphene
  3.Status report of high Tc superconductivity in superhydride materials
  4.Status report of possible high Tc superconductivity in iron pnictides and chalcogenides
  5.Status report on recent development on topological superconductor
  6.Status report of superconductivity in nickel oxidesa
  

Course Schedule

• Sept 5, Mou
  Sept 12, Mou
  Sept 19, Mou
  Sept 26, Mou
  Oct 3, Mou
  Oct 10 (國慶日)
  Oct 17, Mou
  Oct 24, Mou
  Oct 31, Mou
  Nov 7, Huang
  Nov 14, Huang
  Nov 21, Huang
  Nov 28, visit to NSRRC
  Dec 5, Fujimori
  Dec 12, Fujimori
  Dec 19, Fujimori