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Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Superfluids and Superconductors

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We review some rigorous results on the equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of superfluids and superconductors.

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Acknowledgements

The present review was written for the meeting on Operator Algebras and Quantum Physics, July 17th–23rd 2015, Satellite conference at USP, S\({\tilde{a}}\)o Paulo, Brazil, to the XVIII International Conference on Mathematical Physics, Santiago de Chile (2015). We should like to thank the organizers for the invitation, A. Sütö for helpful correspondence, B. Nachtergaele, G. L. Sewell and V. A. Zagrebnov for helpful remarks, and both referees, specially referee 2, for very enlightening comments.

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Wreszinski, W.F. Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Properties of Superfluids and Superconductors. J Stat Phys 169, 782–803 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-017-1888-6

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