The Bosons of the Conventional Superconductors

Abstract

For the conventional superconductors it will be shown that not only the superconducting energy gap, Egap(T=0), and the critical field, Bc(T=0), but also the London penetration depth, λL(T=0), scale in a reasonable approximation with the superconducting transition temperature, TSC, as ~TSC, ~TSC2 and ~T-1/2, respectively. From these scaling relations the conclusion obtained earlier, using a completely different method, is confirmed that the London penetration depth corresponds to the diameter of the Cooper-pairs. As a consequence, only one layer of Cooper pairs is sufficient to shield an external magnetic field completely. The large diamagnetism of the superconductors is caused by the large orbital area of the Cooper-pairs. From the fact that, in the zero-field ground state, the temperature dependence of the superconducting heat capacity is given above and below TSC by power functions of absolute temperature it follows that the only critical point is T=0. The superconducting transitions of the element superconductors, therefore, are all within the critical range at T=0. As a consequence, above and below TSC there is short-range order only. As we know from Renormalization Group (RG) theory, in the critical range the dynamics is the dynamics of a boson field, exclusively. Evidently, the Cooper-pairs have to be considered as the short-range ordered units created by this boson field. It is reasonable to assume that the relevant bosons in the superconducting state are identical with the bosons giving rise to the universal linear-in-T electronic heat capacity above TSC. Plausibility arguments will be given that these bosons must be electric quadrupole radiation generated by the non-spherical charge distributions in the soft zones between the metal atoms. The radiation field emitted by an electric quadrupole can be assumed to be essentially curled or circular. In the ordered state below TSC, the bosons are condensed in resonating spherical modes which encapsulate the two Cooper-pair electrons and shield their charge perfectly.

Keywords

• Cooper-pairs
• Ordered boson fields
• Stimulated emission

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