macroscopic quantum theory of superconductivity
1Superconductivity — is a phenomenon occurring in certain materials generally at very low temperatures, characterized by exactly zero electrical resistance and the exclusion of the interior magnetic field (the Meissner effect).The electrical resistivity of a metallic …
2superconductivity — superconduction /sooh peuhr keuhn duk sheuhn/, n. superconductive /sooh peuhr keuhn duk tiv/, superconducting, adj. superconductor /sooh peuhr keuhn duk teuhr/, n. /sooh peuhr kon deuhk tiv i tee/, n. Physics. the phenomenon of almost perfect… …
3Quantum mechanics — For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the topic, see Introduction to quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics …
4History of superconductivity — The history of superconductivity , the property exhibited by certain substances of lacking electrical resistance at temperatures close to absolute zero, began at the end of the 19th century and culminated in Heike Kamerlingh Onnes s 1911… …
5BCS theory — is a microscopic theory of superconductivity, proposed by Bardeen, Cooper, and Schrieffer. It describes superconductivity as a microscopic effect caused by Bose condensation of pairs of electrons.HistoryBCS theory was developed in 1957 by John… …
6Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) — In quantum mechanics, perturbation theory is a set of approximation schemes directly related to mathematical perturbation for describing a complicated quantum system in terms of a simpler one. The idea is to start with a simple system for which a …
7John Bardeen — Infobox Scientist name = John Bardeen imagesize = 110px caption = John Bardeen birth date = birth date|1908|5|23|df=y birth place = Madison, Wisconsin, USA death date = death date and age|1991|1|30|1908|5|23 death place = Boston, Massachusetts… …
8Landau, Lev Davidovich — ▪ Russian physicist born Jan. 9 [Jan. 22, New Style], 1908, Baku, Russian Empire (now Azerbaijan) died April 1, 1968, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R. Soviet theoretical physicist, one of the founders of the quantum theory of condensed matter whose… …
9London, Fritz Wolfgang — ▪ American physicist born March 7, 1900, Breslau, Ger. [now Wrocław, Pol.] died March 30, 1954, Durham, N.C., U.S. German American physicist who did pioneering work in quantum chemistry and on macroscopic quantum phenomena of… …
10physics — /fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force. [1580 90; see PHYSIC, ICS] * * * I Science that deals with the structure of matter and the interactions between the fundamental constituents of… …
