Dr. Armen Gulian is Senior Research Scientist and Director of Chapman University's Advanced Physics Laboratory, located in Burtonsville, Maryland. His scientific career began with a Ph.D. and postdoctoral research on non-equilibrium phenomena in superconductors and superfluids within the group of Nobel Laureate Vitaly Ginzburg.

Before setting up the Advanced Physics Laboratory for Chapman, Dr. Gulian founded the Laboratory of High-Temperature Superconductivity at the Physics Research Institute, Armenia - overseeing the world's first observation of phase-slip centers in high-temperature superconductors. Dr. Gulian has also worked on the development of quantum detectors at the US Naval Research Laboratory, where he proposed a theoretical design and performed experimental demonstration of novel cryogenic detector prototypes for X-ray/UV single-photons.

Dr. Gulian's many publications include those on prediction of the "phonon deficit" effect (important for development of electronic coolers); the theory of superconducting quantum generators (potential application for terahertz radiation imaging and high-resolution acoustic imaging); and the prediction of interference current at the description of superconductivity based on time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau equations (important for superconducting electronics).

Offers an intuitive, concept-driven introduction to superconductivity suitable for a broad audience

Supported by an extensive library of COMSOL multiphysics simulation codes to illustrate key concepts

Supplemented by worked examples and problem sets throughout

1 How to handle zero resistance/infinite conductivity?.- 2 Londons' approach.- 3 Ginzburg-Landau approach.- 4 Josephson effects.- 5 SQUIDs.- 6 Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory.