BCS Theory of Superconductivity

Accepted · 1957

Status: Accepted
Year: 1957

Summary

Electrons pair up through lattice vibrations and condense into a single quantum state that flows without resistance. It took forty-six years after the discovery of superconductivity to explain it.

Equations

BCS Energy Gap London Equations Josephson Effect Fermi–Dirac Distribution

Proponent

Leon Cooper John Bardeen Robert Schrieffer

Referenced by

equation

BCS Energy Gap Fermi–Dirac Distribution Josephson Effect London Equations

researcher

John Bardeen Leon Cooper Robert Schrieffer

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