This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on superconductivity. Since the last Resource Letter on superconductivity, Scy-2, was published in 1970, there have been dramatic advances in our basic understanding of superconductivity, discovery of new superconducting materials, and improved technological exploitation of superconductors. We review basic phenomenology, followed by concise descriptions of several main classes of superconductors recognized today. Journal articles and books are cited for the following topics: Conventional superconductors, paramagnetic impurities in superconductors, magnetically ordered superconductors, heavy fermion superconductors, high superconductors, organic superconductors, applications of superconductivity, and laboratory demonstrations of superconductivity. Owing to the large volume of available literature on superconductivity, the journal articles and books we discuss constitute good starting points for further exploration of particular topics.
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February 2008
February 01 2008
Resource Letter Scy-3: Superconductivity
N. P. Butch;
N. P. Butch
Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
University of California
, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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M. C. de Andrade;
M. C. de Andrade
Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
University of California
, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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M. B. Maple
M. B. Maple
Department of Physics and Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences,
University of California
, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093
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Am. J. Phys. 76, 106–118 (2008)
Article history
Received:
January 11 2007
Accepted:
September 30 2007
Citation
N. P. Butch, M. C. de Andrade, M. B. Maple; Resource Letter Scy-3: Superconductivity. Am. J. Phys. 1 February 2008; 76 (2): 106–118. https://doi.org/10.1119/1.2802574
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