Brewer D.F. (Ed.) Progress in Low Temperature Physics, Volume XII

Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1991, -383 p.It may seem eccentric to start the twelfth volume of Progress in Low Temperature Physics with a chapter on high-temperature superconductivity, however distinguished its author. When the discovery of high-T_c superconductivity (defined by Ginzburg in Chapter 1 as T_c> 30-40 K) in rather complicated compounds was announced, many low-temperature physicists must have decided that its development was now in the hands of the expert materials scientists, and that their attention was better placed elsewhere.
Nevertheless, if this were to mark a sharp decline of low-temperature physicists' interest in superconductivity, it seemed appropriate to have some sort of obituary in the form of, as Ginzburg quotes from my letter to him, "an article of more general interest giving an historical perspective of the various speculations in the past on the possibility of such (HTS) superconductors, and the possible mechanisms for the superconductivity in the recently discovered materials," Professor Ginzburg responded with a chapter of characteristic style - and with the short response time characteristic of Soviet authors to this series - which is well worth reading for more than its scientific interest...High-temperature superconductivity: some remarks, V.L.Ginzburg
Properties of strongly spin-polarized ³He gas, D.S. Betts, F. Laloeand, M. Leduc
Kapitza thermal boundary resistance and interactions of helium quasiparticles with surfaces, T. Nakayama
Current oscillations and interference effects in driven charge density wave condensates, G. Griiner
Multi-SQUID devices and their applications, R. Ilmoniemi and J. Knuutila