Scientists / Open questions
Brian D. Josephson
Superconductivity; quantum tunnelling
1973 Nobel Prize in Physics
5 questions
Frequency-dependent ion mobility and the ultimate low-temperature behavior of ions in normal liquid He
Rigorous status of Josephson's specific-heat inequality : unproven correlation hypotheses, Goldstone and quantum extensions, and sharpness beyond the ferromagnetic Ising class
Open directions of Dayan's 1981 lattice-stability no-go analysis for non-phononic superconductivity mechanisms: non-diagonal polarization, inhomogeneous geometries, small- Umklapp, and finite-frequency negative screening for higher
Validity limits of the hydrodynamic pole description of a zero-temperature Bose liquid: high-order correlation functions and nearly-collinear phonon scattering
Microscopic foundations of Josephson's macroscopic field equations for the type-II superconducting mixed state: lattice elasticity, a first-principles pinning-force density, surface critical currents, nonlocal corrections, and the longitudinal-field critical-current mechanism