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Some Theories of High Temperature Superconductivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Marvin L. Cohen
Marvin L. Cohen*
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Department of Physics, University of California and Materials and Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720
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Abstract

A brief review is given of some historical aspects of theoretical research on superconductivity including a discussion of BCS theory and some theoretical proposals for mechanisms which can cause superconductivity at high temperatures.

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