Graduate Lecture Series 29 June – 3 July, 2009 Prof Ngee-Pong Chang Lecture 5 Superconductivity Flux Quantization & SQUID
Kammerlingh Onnes 1853-1926 On the Sudden Rate at Which the Resistance of Mercury Disappears Communications of the Leiden Laboratory, 1911
Onnes-Holst measurement of Hg resistance http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1972/schrieffer-lecture.pdf Onnes-Holst measurement of Hg resistance
Meissner Effect 1933 Robert Ochsenfeld Walther Meissner 1882 - 1974
Inside sphere
Superconductivity
Drude’s Theory of Conductivity Perfect conductor Limit
London’s Equations London’s Equation London’s Equation Superconductor Is better than perfect conductor London’s Equation London’s Equation
London Equations Fritz London
Proc Roy Soc A149, 71, 1935
Maxwell’s Equations for Superconductor
http://web. mit. edu/6. 763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17 http://web.mit.edu/6.763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17.pdf#search=%22superconducting%20phase%20diagram%20lecture%22 http://web.mit.edu/6.763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17.pdf#search=%22superconducting%20phase%20diagram%20lecture%22
http://web. mit. edu/6. 763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17 http://web.mit.edu/6.763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17.pdf#search=%22superconducting%20phase%20diagram%20lecture%22 http://web.mit.edu/6.763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture17.pdf#search=%22superconducting%20phase%20diagram%20lecture%22
BCS Theory of Superconductivity John Bardeen Leon Cooper John R. Schrieffer BCS Theory of Superconductivity Phys.Rev.108, 1175 (1957)
In Absence of Magnetic Field Cooper Pair has zero momentum Superconductor Charge Density In Absence of Magnetic Field Cooper Pair has zero momentum
In absence of Magnetic Field In presence of Magnetic Field momentum In presence of Magnetic Field momentum
In the Presence of Magnetic Field Cooper Pair with zero momentum
Superconducting Current charge density is constant phase depends on vector potential Superconducting Current Superconducting current
Quantization of Flux
Deep inside
Deep inside fluxoid
Fluxoid Quantization B.Deaver & W. Fairbank Phys Rev Lett 7, 43 (1961) http://web.mit.edu/6.763/www/FT03/Lectures/Lecture10.pdf
Brian D. Josephson 1940 -
Vo I II
Vo I II
Josephson Current
Anderson & Rowell experiment, 1963 D.C. Josephson effect Anderson & Rowell experiment, 1963 For V ≠ 0 , JDC = 0 For V = 0 , JDC = Jo sin δo P.W. Anderson
A.C. Josephson Current
A.C. Josephson Current
Coupled Josephson Junctions in an external magnetic field SQUID a Ca P Q Cb b Coupled Josephson Junctions in an external magnetic field
SQUID current for general Flux Ca P Q Cb b
SQUID
SQUID Biomagnetic Device
Look to the Galaxies
Is terrestrial physics different than celestial ?
10-12 August, 2005 Nanyang Technological University National University of Singapore Biopolis, A*STAR