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• Department of Physics
• Brown University
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The BCS Theory of
Superconductivity

Frank Wilczek
Herman Fesbach Professor of Physics
MIT

Together with H. David Politzer and Dvid Gross, he is a recipient of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction.

Prof Wilczek's Wikipedia Entry
Prof Wilczek's Faculty page, MIT


Lecture
"QCD Meets BCS"

Abstract
The BCS theory of superconductivity has helped us explore domains far removed from its origins in low-temperature solid state physics. By applying the ideas of BCS theory to QCD, the fundamental theory of quarks and gluons, we obtain new understanding of QCD's central "mysteries", confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. We predict that ultra-high density matter, such as might be found in the core of neutron stars, enters a new state, the color-flavor locked state, with surprising properties.