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FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

Ginzburg–Landau and a bit on others

E. G. Maksimov

P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation

Abstract: This note is a brief history of how the theory of Ginzburg and Landau came to be. Early publications on the macroscopic theory of superconductivity are reviewed in detail. Discussions that the two co-authors had with their colleagues and among themselves are described. The 1952 review by V. L. Ginzburg is discussed, in which a number of well-defined requirements on the yet-to-be-developed microscopic theory of superconductivity were formulated, constituting what J. Bardeen called the “Ginzburg energy gap model”.

PACS: 01.65.+g, 74.20.-z, 74.25.-q

Received: September 22, 2010
Revised: October 14, 2010

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0180.201011f.1231

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2010, 53:11, 1185–1190

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