Physics 463: Liquid Helium and Superconductivity

Term essays

Spring 1999

• BEC in trapped atomic gases - Minqiang Li
• Vortex lattices in high Tc superconductors - Vladimir Lukic
• Path integral simulations of helium droplets - Erik Draeger
• Effects of impurities on superconductivity - Akilan Palanisam
• Pairing symmetry in high Tc superconductors - Adrian Gozar
• Superconductor-insulator transition in 2D disordered films - Ke Dong
• Andreev reflection - Ludwig Mathey page 1 page 2 page 3 page 4 page 5 page 6
• Superfluid turbulence - Joseph Jun
• Superfluid 3He in Silica Aerogel - Robert White
• Effect of Nodes in the Energy Gap on the Specific Heat of a Superconductor - Tuson Park
• Phase slip centers - Michael Vershinin
• Vortex dynamics in superfluids - James Walsh
• Physics of the pseudogap in high Tc superconductors - Lambert Chao
• The 41meV mystery in high Tc superconductors   - Shashank Misra
• Can a solid be a superfluid? - Vassiliy Lubchenko
• Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in superfluid films - Robert Furstenberg
• Phonons in superconductors - Martin Holt
• Critical dynamics of the superconducting transition - Angbo Fang