Vortex State

An introduction to superfluidity and vortices in superfluid 4Helium.- Anisotropic superconductors: fundamentals of vortices in layered superconductors.- Pinning, fluctuations and melting of superconducting vortex arrays.- Two-dimensional superfluids.- Short coherence length superconductors.- Magnetic decoration studies of flux line lattices in the cuprate superconductors.- Flux creep and ac measurements in superconductors.- Pinning and dynamics of magnetic vortices.- Pinning and correlations in the vortex phase.- Vortex dynamics in superfluids and superconductors.- Experimental observation of the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition.- Fermi liquid theory of non-S-wave superconductivity.- Flux motion by quantum tunneling.- Layered superconductors: do vortices interact with the crystal lattice?.- Vortex state and dimensionality.- Enhancement of superconductivity by photoexcitation.- Surface ESR probing of superconductors.