Introduction to Superfluidity
Subtitle: Field-theoretical Approach and Applications
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jul 28, 2014
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9783319079462
Description: Superfluidity – and closely related to it, superconductivity – are very general phenomena that can occur on vastly different energy scales. Their underlying theoretical mechanism of spontaneous symmetry breaking is even more general and applies to a multitude of physical systems.  In these lecture notes, a pedagogical introduction to the field-theory approach to superfluidity is presented. The connection to more traditional approaches, often formulated in a different language, is carefully explained in order to provide a consistent picture that is useful for students and researchers in all fields of physics. After introducing the basic concepts, such as the two-fluid model and the Goldstone mode, selected topics of current research are addressed, such as the BCS-BEC crossover and Cooper pairing with mismatched Fermi momenta.
Notes: Source title: Introduction to Superfluidity: Field-theoretical Approach and Applications (Lecture Notes in Physics (888))