FROM THE HISTORY OF PHYSICS

Two classic experiments in superconductivity

E. Z. Meilikhov


Abstract: Two experiments of I. K. Kikoin – the correlation between superconductivity and the galvanomagnetic properties of metals (1933), and the gyromagnetic effect in superconductors (1938) – which were carried out long before the appearance of the microscopic theory of superconductivity, anticipated two of its principal conclusions. Established were: 1) the determining role of electron-phonon interaction; 2) the orbital nature of diamagnetism in superconductors.

UDC: 53(092)

PACS: 74.25.Fy, 74.25.Kc, 72.15.Gd, 74.25.Ha

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0155.198805e.0133

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 1988, 31:5, 459–461