Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Production of Heat in Supraconductors by Alternating Currents

  • Letter
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

Abstract

IT has frequently been suggested1 that supraconductivity is a phenomenon not due to the normal electrons which cause ordinary electrical conductivity, but that one may have to take into account supraconducting electrons as opposed to the ordinary electrons Such a hypothesis would seem to be in accord with the observed fact that there is no discontinuity in the heat-conductivity at the transition point2, In this case the following method would seem to enable one to determine the number of supraconducting electrons.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. W. Meissner, "Ergebn. exact. Naturwissenschaften", 11, 251.

  2. W. J. de Haas, and H. Bremmer, Comm. Leiden, No. 214 d, 1931.

  3. This thickness is, of course, the same as that which has been calculated independently for direct current by R. Becker, G. Heller, F. Sauter, Z. Phys., 85, 772; 1933. These authors, however, do not take into account the possible existence of normal electrons, which are of no interest for direct current problems but would be fundamental if they exist for the effect we are considering here. (Added in proof.) Therefore W. Braunbeck in a recently published paper (Z. Phys., 87, 470; 1934) obtains no production of heat calculating the propagation of electric waves through a supraconductor without considering the existence of normal electrons.

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  4. Dissertation Breslau

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford

    HEINZ LONDON

Authors
  1. HEINZ LONDON
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

LONDON, H. Production of Heat in Supraconductors by Alternating Currents. Nature 133, 497–498 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133497b0

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133497b0

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation