Kinetic energy driven superconductivity and superfluidity

DOI10.1142/S0217984911027613MaRDI QIDQ4913907zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. E. Hirsch

Publication date 17 April 2013

Published in Modern Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0504

zbMATH Keywords

charge expulsionhole superconductivityMeissner effectOnnes effectrotational zero point motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: The theory of hole superconductivity proposes that superconductivity is driven by lowering of quantum kinetic energy and is associated with expansion of electronic orbits and expulsion of negative charge from the interior to the surface of superconductors and beyond. This physics provides a dynamical explanation of the Meissner effect. Here we propose that similar physics takes place in superfluid helium 4. Experimental manifestations of this physics in ${}^{4}He$ are the negative thermal expansion of ${}^{4}He$ below the $lambda$ point and the "Onnes effect", the fact that superfluid helium will creep up the walls of the container and escape to the exterior. The Onnes effect and the Meissner effect are proposed to originate in macroscopic zero point rotational motion of the superfluids. It is proposed that this physics indicates a fundamental inadequacy of conventional quantum mechanics.

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