Novel Superfluids: Volumes 1 and 2

by Karl-Heinz Bennemann, John B. Ketterson

Overview

Volumes 1 and 2 of Novel Superfluids report on the latest developments in the field of Superfluidity. The phenomenon has had a tremendous impact on the fundamental sciences as well as a host of technologies. It began with the discovery of superconductivity in mercury in 1911, which was ultimately described theoretically by the theory of Bardeen Cooper and Schriever (BCS) in 1957. The analogous phenomena, superfluidity, was discovered in helium in 1938 and tentatively explained shortly thereafter as arising from a Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) by London. But the importance of superfluidity, and the range of systems in which it occurs, has grown enormously. In addition to metals and the helium liquids the phenomena has now been observed for photons in cavities, excitons in semiconductors, magnons in certain materials, and cold gasses trapped in high vacuum. It very likely exist for neutrons in a neutron star and, possibly, in a conjectured quark state at their center. Even the Universe itself can be regarded as being in a kind of superfluid state. All these topics are discussed by experts in the respective subfields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198722854
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/18/2015
Series:	International Series of Monographs on Physics
Pages:	1304
Product dimensions:	9.78(w) x 8.03(h) x 2.83(d)

About the Author

Karl-Heinz Bennemann, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, Freie Universitat Berlin,John B. Ketterson, Fayerweather Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University

K. H. Bennemann is Professor of Physics at the FU Berlin (1971-). He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana, where he worked with J. Bardeen. He has also been a research Sloan-fellow. He is internationally known in particular for research on magnetism, non-linear optics, superconductivity and ultrafast dynamics in condensed matter.

J. B. Ketterson is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University (1974- ). He was earlier at Argonne National Laboratory (1962 - 1974). He received his PhD from the University of Chicago (1962) under Prof. A. W. Lawson. He specializes in condensed matter physics (electronic properties of metals, liquid helium, superconductivity, cold trapped gasses, magnetism, liquid crystals and Langmuir films, and non linear optics).

Both authors are well known for their classic books on Superfluid He and Superconductivity.

Table of Contents

VOLUME 11. An introduction to superfluidity and superconductivity, K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson2. A survey of some novel superfluids, J. B. Ketterson and K. H. Bennemann3. Quantized vortices in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates, Makoto Tsubota, Kenichi Kasamatsuand, and Michikazu Kobayashi4. Spin superfluidity and magnon Bose-Einstein condensation, Y.M. Bunkov and G.E. Volovik5. Superfluid helium three in aerogel: experiment, Yoonseok Lee and Richard P. Haley6. Bose-Einstein condensation of photons, Jan Klaers and Martin Weitz7. Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases, Frederic Chevy and Jean Dalibard8. Experiments on excitons in bulk semiconductors, M. Kuwata-Gonokami9. Superfluidity in exciton-polariton condensates, Y. Yamamoto10. Color superconductivity in dense quark matter, Mark G. Alford, Andreas Schmitt, Krishna Rajagopal, and Thomas Schafe11. The superfluid universe, G. E. VolovikVOLUME 212. Superfluidity: An overview, K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson13. Unconventional superconductivity, M. R. Norman14. Fe-based new superconductors, K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson15. Superconductivity from repulsive interaction, S. Maiti and A. V. Chubukov16. Atomic Bose fluids in optical lattices, C. Chin and N. Gemelke17. Optical lattice emulators: Bose and Fermi Hubbard models, E. Duchon, Y. L. Loh, and N. Trivedi18. Superfluidity in ultracold atomic Fermi gases, M. Zwierlein19. Coherent exciton transport in semiconductors, M. Rontani and L. J. Sham20. Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons at room temperature: kinetics thermodynamics, and coherence, O. Dzyapko, V. E. Demidov, S. O. Demokritov, G. A. Melkov, and A. N. Slavin21. Stellar superfluids, D. Page, J. M. Lattimer, M. Prakash, and A. W. Steiner