Theory of Superconductivity - Crisan, M. (World Scientific, 1989)
Includes bibliographical references and index
I. Phenomenological theory of superconductivity. 1. Experimental facts. 2. Gorter-Casimir two-fluid model. 3. Electrodynamics of superconductors. 4. Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductivity. 5. Josephson tunneling. 6. Influence of the fluctuations. 7. Type-II superconductors -- II. Microscopic theory of superconductivity. 8. The Cooper instability of the Fermi gas. 9. Self-consistent field method -- Gor'kov equations. 10. Linear response to a magnetic field. 11. Microscopic derivation of the Ginzburg-Landau equations. 12. Quasiclassical approximation. 13. Strong-coupling theory of superconductivity. 14. Spin fluctuations in superconductors. 15. Triplet pairing -- III. Theory of superconducting alloys. 16. The influence of impurities on the superconducting state. 17. Influence of the correlated spins on the critical temperature of a superconductor. 18. Non-magnetic localized states in superconducting alloys. 19. Kondo effect in superconductors. 20. Localization and superconductivity -- IV. Superconductors in a magnetic field. 21. Paramagnetic effects in superconductors. 22. Critical fields of a superconductor -- V. Superconductivity and magnetic order. 23. Superconductivity and ferromagnetism. 24. Superconductivity and antiferromagnetism. 25. Magnetic structures in superconductors -- VI. Superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems. 26. Superconductivity and charge-density-waves. 27. Coexistence between spin-density-waves and superconductivity -- VII. Unconventional superconductivity. 28. Non-phononic mechanisms. 29. Heavy-fermions superconductivity. 30. High-temperature superconductivity
This book discusses the most important aspects of the theory. The phenomenological model is followed by the microscopic theory of superconductivity, in which modern formalism of the many-body theory is used to treat most important problems such as superconducting alloys, coexistence of superconductivity with the magnetic order, and superconductivity in quasi-one-dimensional systems. It concludes with a discussion on models for exotic and high temperature superconductivity. Its main aim is to review, as complete as possible, the theory of superconductivity from classical models and methods up to the 1987 results on high temperature superconductivity