Recent content by Pluthos

Just a conjecture. We may have some kind of reverse Mossbauer effect. Phonons which are below the energy of the lattice are either reflected or transmitted quasi-instantaneoulsy to the other side of the material

MQuack, you are saying: "Superconductivity essentially switches off the electronic heat transport. Cooper pairs do not contribute to the thermal conductivity." I supposed this is true because the Cooper pairs are completely decoupled from the lattice. This is precisely why they are...

I am intrigued by this question and I don't have an answer. Here is a thought experiment. A superconducting rod is terminated at each of its ends with a non-superconducting material (for example the material could be different at each end or a magnetic field could be present at each end). If a...