Superconductivity: coherent "tunnelling" by a dielectric array of charge-carriers

dc.creatorPrins, Johan F.
dc.date2006-07-25
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:22:45Z
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dc.descriptionSuperconduction manifests when a steady-state current flows through a material without an electric field being present. It is argued here that the absence of scattering of the charge-carriers, although absolutely necessary, is not sufficient to explain why an electric field is zero when a current flows between two contacts to a superconducting material. It is concluded that an electric field, and thus a resistance, must manifest unless (i) the charge-carriers form part of an array of dielectric charge centres, and (ii) the charge-carriers can increase their velocities without increasing their kinetic energies. A model is propoased which allows these requirements to manifest. The model is fitted to selected experimental results which have been published for low temperature metals, YBCO, and highly-doped p-type diamond. In each case a satisfactory description of the experimental results is demonstrated.
dc.description18 pages, 3 figures, Alternative model for superconduction
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607227
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0607227
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/115772
dc.subjectGeneral Physics
dc.titleSuperconductivity: coherent "tunnelling" by a dielectric array of charge-carriers
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