The Theory of Superconductivity in the High-T Cuprates

Аннотация

This book has been “in preparation” for over six years as I write this introduction. It started out as a joint venture of the entire Princeton group, based on a course of lectures in the spring term of 1988 which was contributed to by many other people besides myself. (I have listed all of my collaborators elsewhere.) Chapter 1 is not far from the corresponding part of that original venture. However, the glow of optimism of early 1987, when we seemed to see an almost immediate conclusion to the problem of high Tc in the “RVB”— resonating valence bond—idea was rapidly fading and much of what we wrote and said then was false or misleading.