Superconductivity Properly Understood and Misunderstood Begins With H: Superconductivity Basics Rethought - Couverture rigide

Hirsch, Jorge E

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811216851 ISBN 13 : 9789811216855

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2020

Synopsis

This iconoclastic book proposes that superconductivity is misunderstood in contemporary science and that this hampers scientific and technological development. Superconductivity is the ability of some metals to carry electric current without resistance at very low temperatures. Properly understanding superconductivity would facilitate finding materials that superconduct at room temperature, providing great benefits to society. The conventional BCS theory of superconductivity, developed in 1957 and awarded the Nobel Prize in 1972, is generally believed to fully explain the lower temperature 'conventional superconductors' but not the more recently discovered 'high temperature superconductors', for which the charge carriers are positive holes rather than negative electrons. Instead, this book proposes the holistic view that holes are responsible for superconductivity in all materials. It explains in simple terms how the most fundamental property of all superconductors, that they expel H-fields (the Meissner effect), can be understood with hole carriers and cannot be explained by BCS. It describes the historical development of the conventional theory and why it went astray, and credits pre-BCS researchers for important insights that were forgotten after BCS but are in fact relevant for the proper understanding of superconductivity.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811216851
• ISBN 13: 9789811216855
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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