Download or read book The Physics of Superconductors written by Vadim Vasilʹevich Shmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Russian edition is based on a lecture course given by the author and provides a modern treatment of the physics of superconductors with special attention paid to the physical interpretation of the phenomena. This revised English translation has been enlarged by the inclusion of such new developments as High Temperature Superconductivity, and, as such, is the most up-to-date textbook on the subject available. The editor, Paul Müller, is himself a winner of the Walter Schottky Award for Solid State Research.