Theory of Superconductivity: From Weak to Strong Coupling leads
the reader from basic principles through detailed derivations
and a description of the many interesting phenomena in
conventional and high-temperature superconductors. The book
describes physical properties of novel superconductors, in
particular, the normal state, superconducting critical
temperatures and critical fields, isotope effects, normal and
superconducting gaps, tunneling, angle-resolved photoemission,
stripes, and symmetries. The book divides naturally into two
parts. Part I introduces the phenomenology of superconductivity,
the microscopic BCS theory, and its extension to the
intermediate coupling regime. The first three chapters of this
part cover generally accepted themes in the conventional theory
of superconductivity and serve as a good introduction to the
subject. Chapter 4 describes what happens to the conventional
theory when the coupling between electrons becomes strong. Part
II describes key physical properties of high-temper