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To: SunkenCiv
This is going to sound like a dumb question, but I'll ask it anyway

Why does resistence go down as the temperature approaches such low temps? Is the matter approaching a Bose-Einstein condensate in some fashion?

6 posted on 04/03/2007 11:36:31 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN

No one knows. There’s a conjecture about it, I think it’s probably called the Cooper Conjecture. Google the term “cooper pairs”. It was clear as mud to me. :’)


8 posted on 04/03/2007 11:48:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MHGinTN

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solids/bcs.html

“The band gap suggested a phase transition in which there was a kind of condensation, like a Bose-Einstein condensation, but electrons alone cannot condense into the same energy level (Pauli exclusion principle). Yet a drastic change in conductivity demanded a drastic change in electron behavior. Perhaps coupled pairs of electrons with antiparallel spins could act like bosons?”


9 posted on 04/03/2007 11:51:58 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 2, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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