|
|
|
 |
Unconventional superconductivity and intuition
(Department of Physics, Loughborough)
It is well known that physics is not always intuitive. You may find it frustrating; you may say it's fun. But I think everybody agrees: these non-intuitive elements push physics forward and make physics very attractive. I would like to use this opportunity (my inaugural seminar as a lecturer at Loughborough University) to present a few examples of such non-intuitive situations that I have experienced in Josephson tunneling in superconductors, mostly in unconventional superconductors. I am going to consider examples that are non-intuitive to both experts and non-experts in the field. A classic example is the famous Schrödinger cat paradox. Why did we need almost 40 years of intense research in Josephson tunneling to prove it? What new non-intuitive phenomena arise in tunnelling in unconventional superconductors? |
||
|
|