Physics of Superconductors

The author of this book, Prof. Vadim Vasilievich Schmidt, was known in the West as ''Russian Schmidt''. Being a talented theoretician and at the same time heading an experimentallaboratory in Chernogolovka, Vadim Schmidt had a unique talent for explaining complicated physical models and ideas in a simple way. One of his favorite sayings was ''physics is a verbal science''. The book is based on his...