Theory of Superconductivity

Bardeen, J., Cooper, L. N., & Schrieffer, J. R. (1957). Theory of Superconductivity. Physical Review, 108(5), 1175-1204.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1957

Volume

108

Issue

5

Pages

1175-1204

DOI

10.1103/physrev.108.1175

DOI registrant

American Physical Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.108.1175

Cited from

physics

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Symmetry Breaking
  • Superconductors exhibit U(1) gauge-symmetry breaking through Cooper-pair condensation

    This sourceMicroscopic theory of superconductivity; Cooper pairs and symmetry breaking via U(1) condensation.

    Supported in partVerified against the work's full text

    BCS 1957 supplies the paired-electron ground state and condensation energy of superconductors; it never frames this as breaking a U(1) gauge symmetry.

    “The ground state of a superconductor, formed from a linear combination of normal state configurations in which electrons are virtually excited in pairs of opposite spin and momentum, is lower in energy than the normal state”

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Domain-specific

• BCS theory
  • … theory is a microscopic mean-field theory in which an effective attraction produces correlated pairs of opposite-momentum fermionic states and a phase-coherent paired ground state whose self-consistent gap accounts for characteristic thermodynamic and electromagnetic behavior of conventional superconductors.

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