TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR PHYSICS 798S, SPRING 2004, Prof. Anlage
Date	Mtg.#	Waldram	Tinkham	Orlando+Delin	Topics
Week 1
27-Jan	1	1.1-1.6, 3.1, 3.4	1.1-1.9	1.1-1.4	Introduction to the course, 3 Hallmarks of SC, phenomenology, thermodynamics
29-Jan	2	2.1-2.6	1.2, 2.1, 2.2	2.4-2.6, 3.1-3.2	London's Eqs., penetration depth, screening of a magnetic field
Week 2
3-Feb	3	5.1-5.2	2.2.1, 2.5	4.5	Diamagnetism, Methods I, II
5-Feb	4	2.1, 2.2, 10.12	1.3, 2.5	3.4-3.5, 4.1-4.2	High frequency electrodynamics, Two-fluid model, complex conductivity
Week 3
10-Feb	5	2.6-2.7	1.7	5.1-5.5	Macroscopic Quantum Model of SC, fluxoid quantization
12-Feb	6	7.1-7.3	1.4, 3.1, 3.2		Cooper pairing instability
Week 4
17-Feb	7	7.2, 7.10, 16.11-16.13	3.2, 3.3, 3.4	10.4	Origin of the attractive interaction, dynamic screening, isotope effect, Coulomb repulsion
19-Feb	8	Appendix	3.3		BCS Theory I, creation/annihilation operators
Week 5
24-Feb	9	7.3-7.5	3.3, 3.4		BCS Theory II, ground state WF
26-Feb	10	7.6-7.7	3.4, 3.5		BCS Theory III, variational calculation, excitations
Week 6
2-Mar	11	7.8	3.6		BCS Theory IV, finite temperature
4-Mar	12	7.9, 8.1	3.6	10.5	BCS Theory V, gap function, Tc, thermodynamic properties
Week 7
9-Mar	13	8.2-8.7	3.7		BCS Theory VI, excitations at finite temperature
11-Mar	14	4.1-4.2	4.1	10.1-10.2	Ginzburg-Landau (GL) Theory, free energy expansion
Week 8
16-Mar	15	4.3-4.6	4.2	10.3	GL differential equation, boundary conditions, coheremce length
18-Mar	16	4.7, 4.9	4.3, 4.4	6.1	Domain wall energies, Type I, II SCs, critical current
21-28 March, SPRING BREAK AND APS MARCH MEETING
Week 9
30-Mar	17	4.8	4.5		The Little-Parks experiment
1-Apr	18	4.10, 5.5-5.6	4.8, 4.11	6.5	H_c2 and Abrikosov vortices
Week 10
6-Apr	19		5.1	6.2-6.3	H_c1 and structure of an isolated vortex
8-Apr	20	5.7-5.11	5.2, 5.4	7.1-7.5	Theory of vortex interactions, pinning
Week 11
13-Apr	21	6.1-6.5, 8.8-8.10	6.1, 6.2	8.1-8.2	The Josephson Effect, gauge-invariant phase
15-Apr	22	6.6-6.8	6.4	8.5-8.6	Josephson junction (JJ) magnetic diffraction
Week 12
20-Apr	23				J. H. Schon and the electric field effect
22-Apr	24	6.1-6.3	6.3	9.1-9.4	The RSJ model of the JJ, Shapiro steps
Week 13
27-Apr	25	18.3-18.7	6.5	8.4, 9.5	The DC SQUID
29-Apr	26	15.9-15.12	8.1, 8.6		Fluctuations in superconductors (GL treatment)
Week 14
4-May	27	15.11	8.3, 8.4, 8.6, 8.7		Fluctuation conductivity
6-May	28	17.6	8.2		Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition theory
Week 15
11-May	29	16.1-16.13	9.1 - 9.9		High Temperature SC - what is different from LTS?
		17.1-17.11			Theories of the HTS pairing mechanism