On the Theory of Superconductivity
Article
Domain Context
Life and Biology
Citation
Ginzburg, Vitaly L. and Landau, Lev D.. (1950). On the Theory of Superconductivity. Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki. 20. pp. 1064–1082.
Why this reference is included
Ginzburg and Landau’s 1950 On the Theory of Superconductivity, published in Zhurnal Eksperimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, is one of the program’s working technical references. Cited in Book IV (Categorical Microcosm), Part 7, Chapter Crystals, Glass, and Phase Transitions, where the program draws on it in the context of “Landau Theory and Order Parameters Near a second-order transition, the free energy admits an expansion in powers of an order parameter φ (a specific component or combination of….”
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Book IV — Categorical Microcosm Part 7Chapter Crystals, Glass, and Phase Transitions
Landau Theory and Order Parameters Near a second-order transition, the free energy admits an expansion in powers of an order parameter φ (a specific component or combination of d): F(φ, T) = F_0(T) + a(T) φ^2 + b φ^4 + ·s with a(T_c) = 0, a(T) = a_0(T - T_c), and b > 0