3.1. Spatial Electron Concentration at Transient State
First, we assume that the voltage of the voltage source and the voltage of the load are equal. Then, the diffusion current of the current source is introduced. Considering the conductivity, introducing an average electric field, and substituting a diffusion constant result in a specific and special electron concentration. The voltage balance is
where
VE,
V,
R, and
I denote the voltage from the voltage source, the voltage of the load, the resistance of the load, and the current from the current source, respectively. In Equation (1-2),
ρ,
S, and
l denote the resistivity, the area of the load, and the length of the load, respectively. The diffusion current
I is expressed as [
1]
where
q,
D, and
n denote the electron charge, the diffusion constant, and the electron concentration, respectively. Therefore, the Ohmic voltage becomes
where
σ denotes the conductivity of the load. Here the following equations are substituted:
where
μ,
kB,
T, and
Ei denote the average mobility, the Boltzmann constant, the temperature, and the average local electric field, respectively. Therefore, the local electric field is
Solving this equation gives
3.3. Combination of Two Electrons and Critical Current Density
The transient state attractive interaction potential Vα results in two electrons that approach each other until their distance is only the lattice diameter due to the lack of the Coulomb repulsive interaction at the macroscopic scale. The above-mentioned potential Vα functions at the macroscopic scale, and therefore, the transient state up to the combination of the two electrons is a macroscopic phenomenon. However, only when the potential Vα vanishes do we need to consider the microscopic scale. As described later, however, at this moment, when the potential Vα vanishes, the relative kinetic energy also vanishes. Therefore, we do not need to consider the Hamiltonian of the quantum mechanics only before the combination of two electrons. Instead, it is necessary to consider the Hamiltonian for the center-of mass motion as described later.
As a result of the transient interaction
Vα, the two electrons are located at a lattice, and at a lattice (i.e., macroscopic variable
ξ = 0), the total energy
ET of the system is expressed as follows:
Here,
V is the spin magnetic potential [
1] expressed as
where
m and
zm denote the electron mass and the microscopic relative coordinate, respectively. In Equation (9),
P and
Vp are the kinetic and zero-point energies in terms of the Debye temperature at the lattices, respectively.
Vp is expressed as follows:
where
ωD and
θD indicate the Debye angular frequency and temperature, respectively. The following conditions should be satisfied for the two-electron combination:
For Equation (12-1) to be satisfied, both electrons must be located at the zero point of a lattice. This condition, i.e., critical current density, will be considered later. To satisfy Equation (12-2), the microscopic relative distance
zm (i.e., the coherence) should be
If Equation (12-1) is satisfied, then, Equations (12-2) and (13) are also satisfied because the zero-point energy implies the quantum fluctuation energy of a lattice. Therefore, when current density is less than the critical current density, only the spin magnetic potential V remains, and the entire energy takes on a negative value, which implies that the two electrons have a net combination, in which a collision between the two electrons becomes completely inelastic. Consequently, these two electrons combine to form a pair.
Even though the kinetic energy in terms of the relative motions exists in the transient state, as mentioned, in the steady state, only the spin attractive force
V remains:
where
a denotes the constant coherence of an electron pair.
Therefore, this potential is taken to be the superconducting energy gap of our superconductivity. As mentioned, the two-electron pair combines at the distance of a lattice, which is typically estimated to be 1 Å, and, therefore, the magnitude of the energy gap is estimated to be approximately 10-18 J. The typical room temperature energy kBT (where the temperature T = 300 K) is approximately on the order of 10−21 J. Therefore, this superconducting energy gap is much larger than that of room temperature. This implies that the individual electron pair will not be destroyed via normal heating.
At the critical point, i.e., in the case where the inequality of Equation (12-1) is maximum,
From this equation, the concentration
n0 can be expressed as
In Equation (14), considering the second equation of Equation (9), the left-hand side of Equation (14) implies a kinetic energy
P. Therefore,
where
m and
v denote the mass of the electron and the velocity in terms of the relative motions, respectively. Substituting Eq. (15),
Therefore, the relative velocity is derived to be
Consequently, the critical current density equation is obtained such that
Note that, in the Results section, we will calculate numerical values of the critical current density using Equation (20).
3.4. Macroscopic Wave Function and the London Equation
Given that a two-electron pair binds strongly, from the discussion in the previous sections, we now precede to a discussion of Bose–Einstein condensation and the macroscopic wave function.
The Hamiltonian equation of an electron pair in terms of the center-of-mass motion is expressed as
The potential
U in the above equation indirectly implies the electrostatic potential of the two electrons, i.e., the external fields:
where
x1 and
x2 denote the positions of the two electrons.
In the steady state, as discussed later, we are now considering the combined electron pair at a lattice, without collisions (i.e., the interactions) with another pair, and thus this temperature-independence allows us to consider that the dimension is single. Moreover, because there are not net collisions between the pairs, it is potential for a phase transition that is related to temperatures not to exist [
15].
The local placements at the identical lattice of the two electrons (i.e., the local and strong combination of the two electrons at a lattice) imply that
x1 =
x2. Employing the Hamiltonian equation, a wave function of the pair in terms of the center-of-mass motion can be obtained. Note that, at the moment when the electrons have an identical location at a lattice, the potential
U in the Hamiltonian equation converts to an eigenvalue (i.e., the kinetic energy in terms of the center-of-mass motion) that stems from the local electric field
Ei. Accordingly, the distribution of the local electric field
Ei within the lattice vanishes.
where
μi denotes the mobility of the pair at the lattice. Using the following equations,
the wave function of an electron pair can be derived such that
where
σi, △
Vi, and
J denote the conductivity at the lattice, the variation quantity of the volume with respect to the increase in the index
i, and the current density, respectively.
Equation (24-1) implies the proportion of Joule electric and electrostatic fields at the lattice-scale level. As mentioned, the above wave function of an electron pair is indexed by
i, and a wave function at a subsequent lattice does not interact with this wave function because the distance between the two neighboring lattices is much larger than the coherence of the two electrons. Note that, in the previous section, we mentioned that the coherence of a combined pair is estimated to be approximately 1 Å (i.e, the typical diameter of a lattice). Moreover, the entire wave function is represented in the following equation:
Assuming that the index
i is infinite and that the sample volume of a load is kept constant, the lattice volume △
Vi /
i converges to the differential
dV. Accordingly, the countable lattice concept becomes ineffective, and a macroscopic continuous body appears. That is, we obtain a macroscopic wave function that is mandatory when considering the mechanism of the new superconductivity, and this macroscopic wave function is needed to derive a London equation (i.e., a Meissner effect):
In Equation (27), the wave number
K is
where
M denotes the spin magnetic moment of an electron and
a is the constant coherence in terms of our new superconductivity. The spin magnetic moment in this equation can be correlated to the combination energy (i.e., the spin interaction) from Equation (10) when the microscopic ordinate
zm is replaced with the constant coherence
a. where
V denotes the spin interaction given in Equation (10-2).
In Equation (28-2), the macroscopic current I is independent of the collision time and is therefore a superconducting current. Further, the wave number K in this equation is uniform and is not related to space, e.g., it is not related to the lattice index i. Therefore, all the quantum states converge to a single state, and Bose–Einstein condensation is derived.
Let us consider the Meissner effect derived from the macroscopic wave function. As mentioned, the macroscopic wave function is
In this equation, the macroscopic current I appears. In general, a current needs to be continuous in space and time. In this case, therefore, the current I is continuous for the output current I from the current source. Accordingly, this current must generate a self-magnetic field in the load sample and, if a new superconductivity is generated, this self-magnetic field must be canceled out.
Considering the above self-magnetic field
A, the Aharonov–Bohm (AB) effect [
14] can be introduced to the macroscopic wave function, Equation (27):
Based on the property of phases,
Assuming that the integer
n = 0,
The differentials are then applied to both sides:
Assuming a differential for integrals for the surface and the line equal to the coherence
a, which is very small, Eq. (33) becomes
Therefore, we derive a London equation:
3.5. Shield Current Distribution and the Interpretation of Derived London Equation
When considering a sample with a cylindrical shape, it is necessary to introduce an internal toroid whose large radius corresponds to that of the cylindrical sample. Then, we consider the renewable coordinate that is tangential to the large circumference of the toroid as corresponding to the
z-axis in cylindrical coordinates; see
Figure 3. We refer to this type of coordinates as the “specific cylindrical coordinates.”
Figure 3.
Schematic of the specific coordinates of an internal toroid. The left panel indicates a load whose macroscopic shape is cylindrical, and R is a radius that is identical to the large radius of a toroid. The right panel shows a cross section of an elemental coil of the internal toroid. The red square is a cross section of the elemental coil, which is located in the z–r-axes of the specific cylindrical coordinates. Note that these element coils’ cross sections are microscopic and sufficiently small. That is, this is a schematic and therefore an elemental coil is actually very small because its height along the z-axis corresponds to the coherence a of our superconductivity (it is a so-called two-dimensional elemental coil) and that there is generally a ϕ-axis in cylindrical coordinates but the actual area that the magnetic field vectors cross perpendicularly depends on l, depicted as the blue area in the left panel. Note that the assembly of many microscopic element coils forms a macroscopic scale and thus “microscopic” here simply implies that each element coil’s cross section is sufficiently small.
Figure 3.
Schematic of the specific coordinates of an internal toroid. The left panel indicates a load whose macroscopic shape is cylindrical, and R is a radius that is identical to the large radius of a toroid. The right panel shows a cross section of an elemental coil of the internal toroid. The red square is a cross section of the elemental coil, which is located in the z–r-axes of the specific cylindrical coordinates. Note that these element coils’ cross sections are microscopic and sufficiently small. That is, this is a schematic and therefore an elemental coil is actually very small because its height along the z-axis corresponds to the coherence a of our superconductivity (it is a so-called two-dimensional elemental coil) and that there is generally a ϕ-axis in cylindrical coordinates but the actual area that the magnetic field vectors cross perpendicularly depends on l, depicted as the blue area in the left panel. Note that the assembly of many microscopic element coils forms a macroscopic scale and thus “microscopic” here simply implies that each element coil’s cross section is sufficiently small.
From the initial time to the transition time tc, there is a normal self-magnetic field distribution B0 in the sample along the direction of the z-axis of the specific cylindrical coordinates. Because of the formation of the macroscopic wave function at the time tc, however, B0 is canceled by a magnetic field whose direction is in the z-axis of the specific cylindrical coordinates generated by the current from Equation (35). Therefore, the internal net magnetic flux density becomes zero despite the existence of the current I. However, it is important to note that a large toroid inductance L still exists because the inductance is generally calculated only using the geometrical parameters of a coil. Note that, from energy conservation, the magnetic field energy derived from B0 is transformed as a discharged current, which generates a temporal negative voltage, as mentioned previously.