Articles

At present I do not provide electronic versions of my articles mainly because of disk-space limitations (though, some journal versions might still be available here). However, complete bibliographyc record, including abstract and possibility for generating BiBTeX format, is available for each publication in the Articles folder. Additionally, preprint versions of most of the recent publications are accessible through the cond-mat section of the arXiv e-print server. Here you can find a complete listing of all available preprints. A limited number of reprints of some of the articles is also available upon request.

Books

• T. Mishonov and E. Penev, Theory of high-temperature superconductivity: A traditional approach (World Scientific, Singapore; accepted)

The book is designed for final year undergraduate and beginning graduate students starting research in the physics of superconductivity. From the huge explosion of high-Tc superconductivity in the last two decades in the book are selected phenomena having textbook explanation – this is why the attention is focused on the overdoped cuprates. The material is illustrated with data from crucial experiments. All theoretical derivations are sequentially presented starting from the level of physical principles explained in the standard university courses on quantum mechanics, statistical physics and electrodynamics. Significant parts of the chapters dedicated to electronic band structure, pairing by exchange interaction, thermodynamic and electrodynamic behavior, and fluctuations were presented at lectures on solid state theory, superconductivity, and quantum field theory methods in condensed matter physics. The purpose of this introductory monograph is to bridge the basic undergraduate physics texts and contemporary physics of high-Tc superconductivity.

Software documentation

• E. Penev, REX Manual: Replica exchange molecular dynamics using Tinker 4.2, (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007)
• E. Penev, "MHop: User Guide" (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel, 2005)
• A.L. da Rosa, S.M. Lee, and E. Penev, The FHIMD Toolkit. User's Manual (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2002)
• P. Kratzer, C.G. Morgan, E. Penev, A.L. da Rosa, A. Schindlmayr, L.G. Wang, and T. Zywietz, FHI98MD: Computer code for density-functional theory calculations for poly-atomic systems. User's Manual (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1999)