Dynamics of the normal-superconductor phase transition and the puzzle of the Meissner effect

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2015.07.023zbMATH Open1343.82063arXiv1504.05190OpenAlexW3103028333MaRDI QIDQ307536FDOQ307536

Authors: J. E. Hirsch 

Publication date: 2 September 2016

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The analisis of Pippard cite{pip} for the growth of the normal phase into the superconducting phase in the presence of a magnetic field $H>H_c$ is applied in reverse to the case $H<H_c$ ($H_c=$critical magnetic field). We carry out the analysis both for a planar and a cylindrical geometry. As the superconducting phase grows into the normal phase, a supercurrent is generated at the superconductor-normal phase boundary that flows in direction opposite to the Faraday electric field resulting from the moving phase boundary. This supercurrent motion is in direction opposite to what is dictated by the Lorentz force on the current carriers, and in addition requires that mechanical momentum of opposite sign be tranferred to the system as a whole to ensure momentum conservation. In the cylindrical geometry case, a macroscopic torque of unknown origin acts on the body as a whole as the magnetic field is expelled. We argue that the conventional BCS-London theory of superconductivity cannot explain these facts, and that as a consequence the Meissner effect remains unexplained within the conventional theory of superconductivity. We propose that the Meissner effect can only be understood by assuming that there is motion of charge in direction perpendicular to the normal-superconductor phase boundary and point out that the unconventional theory of hole superconductivity describes this physics

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.05190

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zbMATH Keywords

BCS theoryMeissner effectmomentum conservation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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