New Trends in Superconductivity contains up-to-date papers covering the most exciting current topics in superconductivity research. The main areas include cuprate superconductivity, covering mechanisms, pairing symmetry, pseudogap, stripes, growth and synthesis; novel superconductors, including MgB2, Sr2RuO4, borocarbides and C60-based systems; and mesoscopic superconductors and vortex matter, including vortex structure, type II superconductors, macroscopic quantum coherence and qubit devices and multilayer systems.
A useful, up-to-date reference of current research in all of these rapidly developing fields of superconductivity.

Zusammenfassung
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Yalta, Ukraine, from 16-20 september 2001

Inhalt
Growth and doping of MBE prepared cuprate films.- Growth of a hard-grown single crystal - Bi2Sr2Ca2010 + ð.- Exchange and spin-fluctuation pairing in the two-band Hubbard model - Application to cuprates.- High temperature superconductors in high frequency fields.- Stripe-like inhomogeneities, carriers, and BCS-BEC crossover in the high-7c. cuprates.- Charge- and spin-density-wave superconductors: Pseudogap puzzle in the cuprates.- Strong-coupling superconductivity with d-wave order parameter and s-wave gap - Application to cuprates.- Theory of BSCCO bicrystal C-axis twist Josephson junctions: a new phase- sensitive test of order parameter symmetry.- Time reversal breaking states and spontaneous current pattern in Josephson junctions of d-wave superconductors.- Electronic thermal conductivity of partially-gapped CDW superconductors.- Peculiarities of the spectrum of strongly correlated electrons.- Pair-transfer superconductivity on doping determined bands and the pseudogap.- Extended Brinkman-Rice picture and its application to High-Tc superconductors.- Many-band effects in superconductivity.- Study on electronic specific heat of La2-xSrxCu04: pseudogap and superconductivity.- Correlation between superconducting gap and pseudogap in High-Tc cuprates.- High spin paramagnetic centers in tetragonal phase of Er123, Dyl23, and (Er, F) 123 compounds.- EPR study of spin clusters in oxygen deficient R123 compounds.- Superconductivity in pure and electron-doped MgB2: transport properties and pressure effects.- Superconducting gap and electron-phonon interaction in MgB2 thin film studied by point contacts.- A two-band approach to MgB2 superconductivity.- Specific heat and disorder in the mixed state of non-magnetic borocarbides and a comparison with exotic superconductors.- Onthe influence of a non-local electrodynamics in the irreversible magnetization of non-magnetic borocarbides.- Spontaneous spin polarization and electronic states in platinum nano-particle - Toward Compacted Superconductivity.- Calculation of correlation functions for superconductivity models.- Theoretical analysis of the symmetry of the order parameter in unconventional superconductors: singlet versus triplet pairing.- P-wave pairing in superconducting Sr2Ru04.- High-temperature superconductivity of semi-localized 2D electron system with circular molecular orbits.- Two-particle green function in the theory of superconductivity of HTSC and C60 crystals.- Vortex structure in mesoscopic superconductors.- Quantum measurements of charge and flux qubits.- Nanostructured superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers.- Half-integer number vortices in the Ginzburg-Landau-Higgs model.- The hydrodynamic instability in the vortex-anti-vortex system.- Magnetization of type-II superconductors. Variational Wigner-Seitz approximation.- Phase Transitions in mesoscopic Cylinders.- Study of decoherence time of electronic states in quantum dots, Josephson junctions and fractional quantum hall effect pseudo-spin quantum computing devices.