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As you seem to understand this topic a bit more: can you explain the model? What is the current theory how superconductors work?
by Roritharr 7y ago
As you seem to understand this topic a bit more: can you explain the model?
What is the current theory how superconductors work?
- tasty_freeze 7y agoI don't know anything about superconductors other than what I have read in articles like this one. But even for someone like me, it is obvious that this is a confirmation of theory, not a practical result.
- pdonis 7y ago> What is the current theory how superconductors work? The best general model of superconductivity I'm aware of is still the BCS model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCS_theory This model basically says a superconductor is a Bose-Einstein condensate, where the Bose "particles" are pairs of electrons in the material that are entangled via an interaction involving low-energy vibration states of the material as a whole. The problem is that this general model doesn't tell us what the critical temperature for the Bose-Einstein condensation is. We have to find that out by a combination of experimentation with different materials, and more detailed extensions of the model that test various hypotheses about what kinds of material properties should affect the critical temperature. This paper is just a recent development in that line of research.