Introductory Material: Superconductivity and Superfluidity


    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2003 was awarded to Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg and Anthony J. Leggett “for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids"

     

    The Nobel Prize advanced information on this award provides a good introduction to the area and can be found here.

     

    Reviews of this work have been published in Reviews of Modern Physics: Abrikosov review article; Ginzburg review article; Leggett review article.

     

    A short compilation of reports and commentaries published in Science on this topic can be found here.

     

    All this material and the references contained within it should provide a good initial basis for a presentation.