UWM Superconducting Materials Theory Group

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Research        Theoretical Superconductivity, Strongly Correlated Materials

Teaching Courses

Phys 852: Superconductivity and Superfluidity

Offered Spring 2007 by Prof. Daniel Agterberg. The course will require a knowledge of quantum mechanics.

These two fields have generated seven Nobel prizes in physics. This course will aim to bring across the ideas and discoveries that lead to these prizes and to convey why these were considered important. The course will begin with the Ginzburg Landau theory of superconductivity (2003 Nobel prize) and then move on to the Bardeen Cooper Schrieffer microscopic explanation of superconductivity (1972 Nobel prize). With this introduction to the field an overview of modern concepts and important open problems will be given. These will include:

Present understanding of high temperature superconductors (1987 Nobel prize)

Open issues in atomic and molecular Bose condensates (2001 Nobel prize)

Role of superconductivity in quantum computing (future Nobel prize).

CV (PDF format)

Fermi Surface of Sr₂RuO₄ (courtesy of C. Bergemann).

              See the December 2006 Physics Today for an article about superconductivity in this material