Product Description: Practical applications on the cuprates depend heavily on the coherence of their superconducting state. Introductory chapters of this book present the special problems posed by the strong anisotropy of the cuprates. They are followed by pedagogical reviews on fluctuation effects, the properties of the vortex state, physics of tunnelling (s and d-wave superconductors), and properties of related junction devices...read more

Product Description: The energy crisis and the climate change crisis are really just twin manifestations of the entropy crisis, argues Deutscher (Tel Aviv U., Israel), who introduces the concept of entropy to a general audience in both intuitive and formal ways and proceeds to explain the role of human generated entropy in energy depletion and climate change...read more

Product Description: How new are the high Tc superconductors, as compared to the conventional low Tc ones? In what sense are these oxides different from regular metals in their normal state? How different is the mechanism for high Tc superconductivity from the well-known electron-phonon interaction that explains so well superconductivity in metals and alloys? What are the implications of the new features of the high Tc oxides for their practical applications? This interesting book aims to provide some answers to those questions, drawing particularly on similarities between the high Tc oxides and granular superconductors, which also present a short coherence length, a small superfluid density and an inhomogeneous structure...read more

Presents insights into the nature and function of language.

The elusive forces of creation at work in human communication are exposed in an investigation into how the destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined and how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, structures, and meanings. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: One of the most spectacular consequences of the description of the superfluid condensate in superfluid He or in superconductors as a single macroscopic quantum state is the quantization of circulation, resulting in quantized vortex lines...read more