Physicists from around the world synthesizes research on the phenomenon, with an emphasis on superconducting composite wires or tapes, which are subjected to stresses such as residual stresses arising from the mismatch of the coefficient of thermal expansion among the constituents, tensile and bending stresses during winding to make coils, and electromagnetic force in operation. Among their topics are mechanical behavior and its relation to critical current in Bi2223-superconducting composite tapes, the fishtail effect in high-temperature superconductors of strong pinning ability, orbital physics in the sodium cobalt oxyhydrate superconductors, superconductivity in highly correlated systems, computing with superconducting circuits of Josephson junctions, superconducting transitions in wire networks under spatially modulated magnetic fields, and superconducting mini-undulators. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)