Superconductivity -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
- ️Weisstein, Eric W.
A phenomenon in which a substance loses all electrical resistance first discovered in metals at liquid helium
temperatures by Kamerlingh-Onnes 
in 1911.
The BCS theory does not appear capable of explaining the high-temperature phenomenon, although extending the phonon propagation with an s-wave may work. However, the most recent experiments seem to favor a new d-wave mechanism in which electrons are propagated by magnetic fluctuations (Clery 1996).
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