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John Robert Schrieffer Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
John Robert Schrieffer coauthored the microscopic BCS theory of conventional superconductivity. Its many-electron ground state coherently combines configurations in which states of opposite spin and momentum are paired. An attractive interaction mediated by lattice vibrations can lower the energy of this collective state, while its excitations have a gap. The theory relates that construction to a phase transition, specific heat, magnetic-field penetration and other measurable properties of a superconductor.[ref]
Theory of Superconductivity by John Bardeen and others. Physical Review 108, 1175 (1957), paired ground state and observable predictions
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