Individual course details
Study programme PhD studies in physics
Chosen research area (module) Condensed matter physics and statistical physics
Nature and level of studies Academic studies of third degree
Name of the course Physics of Superconductivity
Professor (lectures) Zoran Radovic 
Professor/associate (examples/practical) Zoran Radovic / Mihajlo Vanevic
Professor/associate (additional) Zoran Radovic / Mihajlo Vanevic
ECTS 15 Status (required/elective) optional
Access requirements Quantum Statistical Physics, Solid State Physics
Aims of the course Introduction to the physics of superconductivity of metals and alloys.
Learning outcomes Qualifying for the scientific research.
Contents of the course
Lectures Historical overview and phenomenology. The London and the Ginzburg-Landa theory. Microscopic Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) theory: Cooper pairs, electron-phonon interaction as the origin of the attractive interaction, variational approach and solution by canonical transformation. Magnetic properties of type II superconductors: vortices and critical current. Tunneling and the Josephson effect. Quantum interferometers (SQUIDs) and applications. Basic information on high-temperature  superconductivity of cuprates. 
Examples/ practical classes  
Recommended books
1 M. Tinkham, Introduction to Superconductivity (McGraw-Hill, 1996)
2 V. V. Schmidt, The Physics of Superconductivity (Springer, 1997)
3 J. B. Ketterson and S. N. Song, Superconductivity (Cambridge, 1999)
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Number of classes (weekly)
Lectures Examples&practicals   Student project Additional
2   2 1  
Teaching and learning methods lectures and tutorials, problems, seminar
Assessment (maximal 100)
assesed coursework mark examination mark
coursework 10 written examination  
practicals   oral examination 50
papers      
presentations 40