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Books and Collected Contributions

This is the cover of the book "Connectivity and Superconductivity". One of its contributions is mentioned as the first citation in the Scientific Background to the Nobel Prize in Physics 2025.

Connectivity and Superconductivity
JB and J. Rubinstein (Springer, 2000)

Deals theoretically and experimentally with the influence of the boundaries on the superconducting state.

Superconducting-insulator transition (Presnted by T. I. Baturina at the conference "Fluctuations and Phase Transitions in Superconductors").

Physica C 468 (2008) 255-368
JB, Y. Oreg, D. Shahar, and B. Shapiro

Special issue on fluctuations and phase transitions in superconductors

ספר לימוד במכניקה

Lecture Notes in Mechanics

An undergraduate textbook (in Hebrew), initially published by Magnes (2014). A link for free download of the PDF can be obtained from the author or from the Israel Physical Society.

Favorite Publications

I like them because I think they are thought provoking*

Four-stage cycle of a simplified Szilard engine.

Szilard's demon revisited 
Int. J. Theor. Phys. 29 (1990) 985-995

Unlike Maxwell’s demon, Szilard’s demon does not require the result of a measurement in order to perform the appropriate action. This…         more

The figure at the left has encoded order that is revealed by an appropriate optical transformation.

The fight against the second law of thermodynamics
Physics Essays 7 (1994) 281-296

This essay presents the motivation for fighting this law and proposes several compelling contrivances that apparently could circumvent...  more

Unusual vortex. It is caused by the flux rather than the field.

Flux-induced vortex in mesoscopic superconducting loops 
Phys. Rev. B 59 (1999) 8896-8901

This paper studies the order parameter in doubly connected supercon-ducting samples in a uniform magnetic field. It is found that there...   more 

dc voltage from noise. This article claims that the considered superconducting loop can behave as a Brownian motor that results in this voltage as a function of the enclosed flux.

Noise rectification by a superconducting loop with two weak links
Phys. Rev. B 70 (2004) 024524

A circuit with two Josephson junctions with unequal nonsinusoidal current-phase relation (CPR) can behave as a Brownian motor. As such, it... more

Flow of charges and heat in a superconducting loop, that gives rise to an ananalog to Nernst effect (in which the flux takes the place of yhe magnetic field).

Flux-induced Nernst effect in a superconducting loop 
Supercond. Sci. Technol. 28 (2015) 065008

This paper considers a superconducting ring at nonuniform temperature that encloses a magnetic flux (no driving current). An average dc...    more 

The serpent and the fruit as a question mark. According to this essay, the ability to question was created on the seventh day.

On the sanctity of the seventh day

Medium, Sept 2025

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More fiction than science, but supports the scientific method. A story about creation of humankind in pseudo biblical Hebrew.

Local release of power as a function of magnetic flux. According to thermodynamics it should vanish but, following Ginzburg-Lanfau, it does not.

Thermodynamic failure in GL approach to fluctuation super...
Phys. Rev. B 109 (2024) 024501

Heat flow in equilibrium? A nonuniform superconducting loop above its critical temperature encloses a magnetic flux. Following the usual...   more

Two resistors with unequal temperatures. Different scenarios predict different thermal noises after they are connected.

Nonlocal origin in the Johnson noise
Phys. Rev. B 112 (2025) 224311

Since Nyquist’s days, it is implicitly assumed that Johnson’s noise is due to thermal agitation at the same place where this noise is felt. This…     more

*The descriptions are based on the author’s memory, as recorded in 2024.

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