and John Robert Schrieffer to explain superconductivity
using Cooper’s concept of Cooper pairs.
The Pauli exclusion principle creates a Fermi surface
that warps in the presence of an electron to attract a second electron,
overcoming their Coulomb repulsion.
The electron pairs create a Fermionic condensate
and vibrates in a shared quantum state
to become superfluidic, superconductive, and diamagnetic.
Ansatz
It was an educated guess
confirmed by later experiments.
It was only a theory
that predicted testable implications.
It was an approximation
and further work was needed.
Becoming common
Theoretical physics,
a math problem, a concept
of how things work together
becomes less theoretical
when it changes lives
and makes miracles common.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1911,
but before this no one could explain how materials lost all resistance.
However, this theory does not predict which materials can superconduct,
does not not explain the behavior of new high-temperature superconductors.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered superconductivity in 1911, but before this no one could explain how materials lost all resistance. However, this theory does not predict which materials can superconduct, does not not explain the behavior of new high-temperature superconductors.
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