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Philip Warren Anderson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1977 with Sir Nevill Francis Mott and John Hasbrouck van Vleck “for their fundamental theoretical investigations of the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems.” Anderson’s influence on condensed matter physics has been of profound importance. He is often characterized as one of the most influential minds in all of theoretical physics in the second half of the 20th century.
“I ran into superconductivity through being very friendly with Bernd Matthias.”
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See Chap. 6. Giaever did publish observations showing the dc Josephson effect, but he makes no claim on the discovery because he did not understand it. This was before Josephson’s paper.
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From Wikipedia, on RVB: The theory states that in copper oxide lattices, electrons from neighbouring copper atoms interact to form a valence bond, which locks them in place. However, with doping, these electrons can act as mobile cooper pairs and are able to superconduct. Anderson observed in his 1987 paper that the origins of superconductivity in doped cuprates was in the Mott insulator nature of crystalline copper oxide. RVB builds on the Hubbard and t-J models used in the study of strongly correlated materials.
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Fossheim, K. (2013). Philip W. Anderson: Superconductivity from a Broader Perspective. In: Superconductivity: Discoveries and Discoverers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36059-6_8
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