Connection between Superfluidity and Superconductivity
M. R. Schafroth
Abstract
M. R. Schafroth
Abstract
A general connection between equilibrium superfluidity and superconductivity is established. This connection allows us to apply to superconductivity a previously established theorem on the nonexistence of equilibrium superfluidity in actual physical systems. It follows that London's equations can only be approximately valid and have to be modified. An alternative equation proposed by Pippard is also in contradiction with the theorem.
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A general connection between equilibrium superfluidity and superconductivity is established. This connection allows us to apply to superconductivity a previously established theorem on the nonexistence of equilibrium superfluidity in actual physical systems. It follows that London's equations can only be approximately valid and have to be modified. An alternative equation proposed by Pippard is also in contradiction with the theorem.
Key concepts: Superfluidity, Connection (principal bundle), Superconductivity, Physics, Contradiction, Theoretical physics, Quantum mechanics, Condensed matter physics