Superconducting carrier density from London screening

ID: superconducting-carrier-density-from-london-screening

In a local London equation description, the measured London penetration depth satisfies when counts superconducting Electrons and is their effective mass. Thus screening measures . If instead one counts Cooper pairs, use pair mass and pair electric charge , giving pair density for the same screening length. Identifying this superconducting carrier density with the total conduction-electron density requires the additional assumption that the relevant carriers all participate in screening at the measurement temperature.

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