Flux qubits shed a new light on BCS theory and high-$T_c$ superconductivity

Details Flux qubits shed a new light on BCS theory and high-$T_c$ superconductivity Flux qubits shed a new light on BCS theory and high-$T_c$ superconductivity

2010-12-30

arxiv.org/abs/1101.0083v1

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Quantum Physics

7 pages, 2 figures

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A simple microscopic model of a small superconducting loop interrupted by Josephson junction (flux qubit) allows to compute from the experimental data of Wal et.al \cite{Wal} an important parameter - the density of Cooper pairs at zero temperature. This density is determined by the cut-off energy in the BCS model and agrees with the original BCS suggestion but is lower by two orders of magnitude than the value accepted in the modern literature. The immediate consequences of this result are: the validity of the strong coupling BCS model, a plausible picture of electrons recombination into Cooper pairs, and a much weaker condition for the appearance of high-temperature superconductivity. Another consequence is that the popular interpretation of Josephson qubits as macroscopic quantum systems is replaced by a picture of qubit states being superpositions of the ground state and the state containing only a single excited Cooper pair.

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