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| Mar 27, 2012 at 8:54 | comment | added | Luboš Motl | That's surely right and excitations in superconductors may have quantized spin. Still, it is hard to find that the background superconducting "medium" would be an angular momentum eigenstate. This won't really happen easily. | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 15:48 | comment | added | anna v | I did find halexandria.org/dward156.htm about superconductors: "Although quantum mechanical behavior is usually thought of as being restricted to the microscopic scale of an atom or molecule, superconductivity operates at a macroscopic quantum level; pairs condense into a single large-scale quantum state, which has long-range order and can be described as if it was a giant molecule with a single wavefunction.” | |
| Mar 26, 2012 at 5:46 | history | answered | Luboš Motl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |