Unconventional Superconductivity
Superconductivity
2014-12-19 v2
Abstract
A brief review of unconventional superconductivity is given, stretching from the halcyon days of helium-3 to the modern world of Majorana fermions. Along the way, we will encounter such strange beasts as heavy fermion superconductors, cuprates, and their iron-based cousins. Emphasis will be put on the fact that in almost all cases, an accepted microscopic theory has yet to emerge. This is attributed to the difficulty of constructing a theory of superconductivity outside the Migdal-Eliashberg framework.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1302.3176,
title = {Unconventional Superconductivity},
author = {M. R. Norman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3176},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
book chapter for "Novel Superfluids", vol. 2, eds. K. H. Bennemann and J. B. Ketterson, Oxford University Press (in press); some minor textual changes from feedback I received from the first version, along with spelling out the references