The Physics of superconductors

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  • @stephenrklein93
    @stephenrklein93 5 років тому +31

    I'm working on a paper about superconductivity and man, I gotta say, this 8 minute video did so much more for me than staring at my modern physics textbook for half an hour. Keep up the great content! Subscribed

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  5 років тому +5

      I love to hear when the videos can be used like this. Thank you for sharing!

    • @silvioxu2873
      @silvioxu2873 2 роки тому +1

      Hello Stephen, I am an IB student working on an essay on superconductivity as well, specifically the transition to zero resistivity. How did the essay go? I would be extremely grateful if you would send it to me to help me on my research!
      Thanks

  • @reubenthedoggo5541
    @reubenthedoggo5541 6 років тому +289

    I imagine these videos take a while to make, fantastic job once again.

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  6 років тому +33

      yeah they do. But most of the time it's fun!

    • @turbothrottletrouble4217
      @turbothrottletrouble4217 4 роки тому +5

      @@Higgsinophysics good that you enjoy making it coz the content will be fun to watch and for you, time passes like a breeze. You deserve much more subscribers

    • @fjs1111
      @fjs1111 2 роки тому +1

      @@turbothrottletrouble4217 1 more subscriber. Thank you for doing this and phenomenal work.

  • @0tube0user
    @0tube0user 6 років тому +469

    It was great have Arnold Schwarzenegger narrate this video and show his interest in physics

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  6 років тому +141

      Man i wish people would call me the Arnold in real life! I should start bench pressing some more

    • @0tube0user
      @0tube0user 6 років тому +26

      @@Higgsinophysics like your voice its cool, learn some of Arnold's favorite lines and words from a sound board... the more you sound like Alrnold the more subscribers you'll get ... it worked on me because Arnold is cool.

    • @lyssalud6781
      @lyssalud6781 4 роки тому +7

      @@Higgsinophysics some moah*

    • @sumerianannunaki5957
      @sumerianannunaki5957 3 роки тому +12

      Lmfao, anyone else read the comment before hearing the voice.

    • @mav25
      @mav25 3 роки тому

      😂

  • @pierrotinturquoise
    @pierrotinturquoise 5 років тому +28

    Seriously? I can't believe, this is so Underrated!

  • @WouterVerbruggen
    @WouterVerbruggen 5 років тому +70

    A few remarks:
    - The most used superconductors, NbTi and Nb3Sn, are both type 2 superconductors but are also explained by BCS theory. BCS doesn't work for the high-temperature superconductors (HTS), like the ReBCO and BSCCO compounds.
    - We know, phenomenologically at least, quite a bit about how type 2 SCs work.
    - The Meisner effect, which you describe when talking about floating, is far too weak in most situations to make something float. You need flux vortex pinning in type 2 SCs.
    - The flux vortices don't expel the magnetic field, they let it through, one flux quantum per vortex. Because it costs energy to move these vortices, the material tends to keep its position and hence can float
    - Type 1 superconductors are almost useless in practice
    Still, your explanation of what is simply is, the history, and especially the explanation of BCS is very nice

    • @SmethiousReborn
      @SmethiousReborn 3 роки тому

      he said in the vid type 1 superconductors are the talked about super conductors.. they dont know how type 2 super conductors work so why are you saying type 1 s uperconductors are almost useles in practice!?!??!

    • @pola_behr
      @pola_behr 3 роки тому +11

      @@SmethiousReborn he's saying the majority of the things higginso said are for type 1 are actually for type 2. so all the cool stuff happens with type 2 conductors not type 1

  • @donbullecer6122
    @donbullecer6122 4 роки тому +46

    A gem has been found

  • @ipeaceful6
    @ipeaceful6 6 років тому +92

    Great video. Thank you for the work you put into your simulations, it makes everything so much easier to understand.
    In my biology class, we were talking about diffusion of water across a membrane. The teacher asked if the molecules would simply stop moving once equilibrium is reached, and I answered "no" because I remembered one of the simulations from your entropy video. The particles keep moving back and forth, and the multiplicity still stays the same. Thanks!

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  6 років тому +16

      iPeaceful nice good job man - and thanks for telling me. It’s really nice to know you got something useful out of the videos

  • @ujepagaz8495
    @ujepagaz8495 5 років тому +62

    3:09 wasn't expecting the meme LOL

    • @AntonySimkin
      @AntonySimkin 5 років тому

      who is this WHAH guy? lol

    • @Merovinjian
      @Merovinjian 4 роки тому +2

      @@AntonySimkin A Christian pastor. Says "why" alot. I do not know his name lol

  • @Clide691
    @Clide691 Рік тому +1

    one of the most didactic explanation of superconductivty I've ever seen! thank you! cheers from Brazil

  • @theduder2617
    @theduder2617 5 років тому +4

    THANK YOU for going into more detail!! Several videos about this topic, but none of them really explain much.

  • @samarthseth3826
    @samarthseth3826 4 роки тому +1

    Excellent video...made me imagened what actually superconductors are...thnx

  • @ricardomiranda3059
    @ricardomiranda3059 4 роки тому +4

    Probably the best visual explanation about electrodynamics of the supeeconductors I've ever seen. I'll definitely subscribe to this channel.

  • @nau1x
    @nau1x 5 років тому +48

    Wish I watched this 2 years ago when I worked on my thesis

    • @hop339
      @hop339 5 років тому +1

      it hasn’t been out for 2 years yet

    • @anantakabir8390
      @anantakabir8390 4 роки тому +1

      For year 12 we have to write an article about any topic of our choice and give a lecture in front of our class,and have to pass this to get into yr 13. Its not too hard but I kinda now that feel since I have already written multiple articles where there was barely any material to learn from until I finish my articles. It's really annoying.
      What did you do your thesis on?

    • @yab4675
      @yab4675 3 роки тому +1

      bro can you pass me your thesis pls?

  • @Mrcheexx
    @Mrcheexx 4 роки тому +16

    When the video cuts to “why???” I nearly spat out my coffee! What amazing timing for that edit! Thanks for this awesome video:)

  • @ratneshpaliya52
    @ratneshpaliya52 3 роки тому +1

    You explained everything crystal clear in just less than 9 minutes.
    That's what we need in our school physics lectures.

  • @real4487
    @real4487 4 роки тому +31

    Teacher: temperature coefficient blah blah ( concept unclear)
    He : hold my helium

  • @MrPanda4032
    @MrPanda4032 4 роки тому +1

    Incredible how your 9 min video explains the topic way better than my entire 90 min lecture! Thank you, keep up the grat work :DD

  • @hosseinrajabi3885
    @hosseinrajabi3885 9 місяців тому +1

    It’s a great youtube channel that comprise exact and complete physics details in it❤.

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  9 місяців тому

      Thanks for those kind words @hosseinrajabi3885!

  • @JH-ux1re
    @JH-ux1re 2 роки тому +1

    It’s been 3years since this video was released. My professor didn’t really explain superconductors last week and then just skipped to next new chapter by leaving a series of questions in the homework. Thanks for the video so much, it makes a lot of sense and make superconductivity so interesting to me!

    • @gwho
      @gwho 2 роки тому

      A good curation of internet material is far superior than any university course if the material out there exists, and isn't cutting edge info that only the researchers themselves have.
      But professors rarely ever teach a class on their cutting edge material anyway.

    • @anthonybowman3423
      @anthonybowman3423 Рік тому

      @@gwho Kinda. The advantage of courses is feedback. If anything unclear you can often ask and get a direct answer way more easily than with the internet. Perhaps more importantly you get various knowledge checks so you can get feedback on things you didn't know you didn't understand. Though admittedly there is a lot of great stuff out there that can be more engaging or explain things better than some course can do in person. So there are pros and cons.

  • @xeno4162
    @xeno4162 5 років тому +2

    ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATION, I EVER HEARD

  • @F1U7R2Y9
    @F1U7R2Y9 4 роки тому +6

    Video contents is SUPERB , AMAZING
    but...
    Do the background black only for eye comfort.

  • @zachmiles3433
    @zachmiles3433 3 роки тому +1

    That example made with lightning and the conductivity of air was magnificent! Wow.

  • @sancharimouri6714
    @sancharimouri6714 5 років тому +2

    its really fantastic..... I was searching for a long time about quantum levitation and ur video really solved my doubts.....thanks a lot

  • @MARY4201
    @MARY4201 3 роки тому

    You make the internet smarter and more worthwhile

  • @MrShenCat
    @MrShenCat 4 роки тому +1

    Thx, this helps me a lot. This's the best animation of BCS theory I ever watched.

  • @integza
    @integza 5 років тому +5

    Great video! I really enjoyed the animations :D

  • @Techience
    @Techience 5 років тому +5

    This video was incredible! I learned so much and have a new found interest in superconductors, I cant wait to go dive deeper!

  • @keegangold9765
    @keegangold9765 5 років тому

    I love that I can use this video to show not just superconductivity, but conductivity, temperature-dependence conductivity, and resistance as well. In about 8 minutes, you taught an entire three-hour lecture for me. WHY?! Just kidding. Thank you for obviously taking a lot of time to illustrate it all so well.

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  5 років тому

      Glad you think that, it was the goal of this video. Thank you!

  • @yxfrans6257
    @yxfrans6257 Рік тому +4

    I just heard the news about LK99, sounds really amazing, would you please make a video about this material? Thx

  • @mihailazar2487
    @mihailazar2487 5 років тому +10

    wait, what ? So, the resistance is ABSOLUTELY, PRECISELY, MATHEMATICALLY ZERO ? as in NULL ?
    OMG I mean I always assumed when they did the levitating superconductors thing the Eddy currents would eventually give way to gravity by bending eversoslightly and losing energy, but I guess that was just the temperature rising
    I mean I can't put into words just how INCREDIBLY NEAT that is
    Like, you would think that doing something like bouncing a lightbeam off of a spherical mirror would last forever, but it doesn't, and so many things in this universe bow down to entropy's clenching iron fist
    But the fact that you can have current going through a superconductor FOREVER just blew my mind

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  5 років тому +8

      I exaggerated a bit because no matter what we measure there will always be some uncertainty in the measurements. So we don't know for sure that it is ABSOLUTELY, PRECISELY, MATHEMATICALLY ZERO :D But we know for sure the resistance is as good as zero, there was no intensity loss measured outside the uncertainty.. Also NULL is not zero it's nothing :p

    • @kapsi
      @kapsi 8 місяців тому

      There's also "time crystals", which are little quantum "perpetual motion machines", going theoretically forever without losing energy and increasing entropy.

  • @huanquatro
    @huanquatro 5 років тому +2

    This is a remarkably intelligent video

  • @zakirreshi6737
    @zakirreshi6737 5 років тому +1

    Once again i came here really loved your videos thanks for uploading.

  • @udhenijjar6115
    @udhenijjar6115 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you for this video. I have been trying to learn about superconductors through reading the new papers on the ultra pressurized superconductors, but everytime Tc showed up I kept wondering "Why does the temperature have this effect?" Thank you giving me a start on why temperature gives this effect.

  • @Higgsinophysics
    @Higgsinophysics  Рік тому +4

    Did you hate my pronunciation? Content of video is in article format here: higgsino.medium.com/the-physics-of-superconductivity-8631a174f986

    • @clemeschmidt
      @clemeschmidt Рік тому

      Your pronunciation is perfectly fine. European accents are much more preferable than an Indian accent...

    • @maskboy2743
      @maskboy2743 Рік тому

      @@clemeschmidt Indian accents just pronounce every word strongly? don't know how that's bad

  • @kalecrosbie8878
    @kalecrosbie8878 6 років тому +10

    Nice simulations for the electron ball and chain. My idea for the next video - Superfluidity / bose einstein condensates!

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  6 років тому +2

      Thanks for the suggestion. It would be a nice continuation

  • @abcrasshadow9341
    @abcrasshadow9341 Рік тому +2

    Visiting this video to find out what and what isn't possible with superconductors, now that a potential (it is not peer reviewed yet) type 2 super conductor could do for our society!

  • @joangrodio906
    @joangrodio906 3 роки тому

    This is what every collage and modern day physics should be working on.

  • @turbothrottletrouble4217
    @turbothrottletrouble4217 4 роки тому +1

    you deserve much, much more subscribers

  • @joshuaburton4801
    @joshuaburton4801 5 років тому +1

    Thanks so much! You have just helped me so much with a superconductors project I am doing in Physics.

  • @diyawasnothere
    @diyawasnothere 4 роки тому

    by far the best video on the topic, super cool job!!

  • @afclive9390
    @afclive9390 2 роки тому

    Why doesn't this channel have a million subs?!

  • @georgeb7027
    @georgeb7027 3 роки тому

    my man helping me with my physics homework here

  • @kunalyadav6527
    @kunalyadav6527 3 роки тому +1

    Such a beautiful video
    So nice of you 👍👍

  • @-vamshikrishna-hc5sm
    @-vamshikrishna-hc5sm 5 років тому +21

    well my question is how scientists observe those microscopic level moments/phenomena

    • @micheal3041993
      @micheal3041993 3 роки тому

      I think they don‘t. They theorized it and try to prove it wrong until the can‘t. So those are just humans assumptions/perception of nature. Sometimes they can be wrong or not complete.

  • @mubarakvodel5763
    @mubarakvodel5763 2 роки тому

    Superb channel. Great explanation. This video combined with Arvin Ash’s video gave me an adequate understanding of superconductivity. My first NFT purchase will be from you good sir.

  • @eratonysiad2582
    @eratonysiad2582 6 років тому +3

    Nice video! just a small note, there are no maglev trains in existence that make use of this property. The one showed, the Transrapid, doesn't make use of superconductivity at all. The SC-Maglev in Japan _does_ use superconductivity, but this is to be able to create extremely energy efficient magnets, because no resistance means no energy lost.

  • @Nathan-wk6jt
    @Nathan-wk6jt 3 роки тому

    Very good video man, super informative, got a lot better understanding of superconductors now

  • @jake_runs_the_world
    @jake_runs_the_world 6 років тому +1

    Yo super high quality amazing stuff bro

  • @masterkong4774
    @masterkong4774 5 років тому +3

    Awesome 👍 just found your channel. Great work you did there . Thanks for your effort.

  • @sonaljoshi3529
    @sonaljoshi3529 4 роки тому +2

    I loved this video especially the animation!! It made the whole content so much easier to follow!!!
    If you dont mind telling me how do you make those animations, I've recently started teaching a class and want to give a go at it🙈

  • @leroyreynolds7366
    @leroyreynolds7366 2 роки тому

    Nature is flippen awesome! Well presented. Thank you!

  • @Aarreks
    @Aarreks 5 років тому +1

    Thanks so much, been looking for this for quite a while

  • @bhanukumar6613
    @bhanukumar6613 5 років тому +1

    Thanku sir for this effort. My concepts are much better now. Thanku from bottom of heart

  • @resawardanasaputra6914
    @resawardanasaputra6914 5 років тому +2

    Nice video, great explain. I can imagine how it works by this video.

  • @b.f.skinner4383
    @b.f.skinner4383 4 роки тому

    Great explanations, awesome graphics

  • @malaverma3642
    @malaverma3642 3 роки тому

    And hence thanks to your help I passed yet another semester.

  • @trunkblast785
    @trunkblast785 Рік тому +1

    I learned something. Thanks

  • @luiza3289
    @luiza3289 5 років тому +1

    wow what a good explanation of this phenomenon! Thank you!

  • @alexisrdevitre
    @alexisrdevitre 4 роки тому +1

    Awesome graphics

  • @AstroRamiEmad
    @AstroRamiEmad 5 років тому +2

    This video earned you my sub

  • @Officer-kd6
    @Officer-kd6 4 роки тому +1

    at 5:36 did he meant the probability clouds of the electrons overlap each other right ? why don't the electrons repel each other when are in the lowest orbit ?

  • @unplandsitch
    @unplandsitch Рік тому

    What a good explanation!

  • @mahadevgi5661
    @mahadevgi5661 6 років тому

    Excellent description of the topic

  • @ConnoisseurOfExistence
    @ConnoisseurOfExistence 4 роки тому

    Great explanation! Now I need to learn more about cooper pairs...

  • @diegobravo641
    @diegobravo641 Рік тому

    Thank you! This was fun to watch

  • @koponen17
    @koponen17 3 роки тому

    A well structured, clear, visually rich video. Just one thing, who on Earth would color their electrons red and nucleus blue?

  • @colinwatson8568
    @colinwatson8568 3 роки тому

    thank you great vid! no cap. Type 2 semiconductors sound even more interesting.

  • @sciroccoF7
    @sciroccoF7 3 роки тому

    Difficult things made simple thank you sirs, very much appreciated

  • @MartialBachoffner
    @MartialBachoffner 5 років тому +1

    Nice video. There is a typo at 0:56, Liqiud instead of Liquid Nitrogen.

  • @JB4Christ
    @JB4Christ 2 роки тому +1

    can you use a superconducter to block magneticfields and in that way create some kind of perpetual motion

  • @hebahthephysicist9349
    @hebahthephysicist9349 4 роки тому +1

    Amazing video very helpful thank you 😊

  • @seannoland5503
    @seannoland5503 5 років тому

    I don't know if the highlights at 3:48 were meant to show elements that superconduct in elemental forms, or if they are used in superconductive compounds. If it's the latter, then copper needs to be highlighted because of the group of cuprates that superconduct.

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  5 років тому

      You are right - but these are just the in the elemental forms

  • @taladiv3415
    @taladiv3415 3 роки тому

    5:18 & 7:54 , I like his use of the Windows error sound to make the point. :)

  • @fredyeh2418
    @fredyeh2418 2 роки тому

    there are some typo on the periodic table at 3:43. Indium and Thallium.

  • @leppavu
    @leppavu 4 роки тому

    Great, thank you! This was very clear to follow and understand.

  • @aartinegi35
    @aartinegi35 2 роки тому

    its really wonderful representation. thanks

  • @bhavyadesai6528
    @bhavyadesai6528 5 років тому

    Underrated channel

  • @shikshamrit
    @shikshamrit 5 років тому +2

    that was amazing!!! a satisfying video after a long long time!! n btw, i subscribed!

  • @vikramdandu8357
    @vikramdandu8357 Рік тому +1

    The day has come with room temperature super conductor

  • @michalbabor3519
    @michalbabor3519 2 роки тому

    Great VOD man realy helped me out im doing a project about maglev and i need to understand superconduction

  • @AuntoSadek
    @AuntoSadek 2 роки тому

    very nice explanation

  • @debeshbhattarai
    @debeshbhattarai 4 роки тому

    Nice work, I think I might have bumped into super conductivity somehow. Cheers..!!

  • @juanitawheat7902
    @juanitawheat7902 3 роки тому

    This is very intriguing subject...knowing this assists me in understanding our ultimate destiny. What if the charge on our atoms changed, aren't we superconductive? Consciousness in harmonic resonance with the totality of our Being.WOW

  • @RahulSharma-oq2ut
    @RahulSharma-oq2ut 5 років тому +1

    Physics is nothing but a simple concept which is oversimplified with fancy names

  • @louis3175
    @louis3175 Рік тому

    Excellent vidéo !

  • @kushalneupane629
    @kushalneupane629 5 років тому +3

    It's easy to understand

  • @arshdubey7614
    @arshdubey7614 6 років тому +2

    Great work!

  • @gina160288
    @gina160288 Рік тому

    an amazing explanation

  • @YLprime
    @YLprime 4 роки тому +1

    great video

  • @mahdjoubakhatiri
    @mahdjoubakhatiri Місяць тому

    thank you for this very clear presentation, Please tell me how you can use the animation in your video for example, like electrons and copper pairs

  • @collinskariuki2586
    @collinskariuki2586 4 роки тому

    In minute 4:32 you say that the incoming/flying electron will be more positively charged? Why?

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  4 роки тому

      I was a bit confusing at the timestamp. But I didn't mean the electron. I meant the local disturbance have a higher positivly charged density because the protons clumb together in a smaller area. This causes a higher attraction to the incomming electron off course

  • @prensudangol1547
    @prensudangol1547 4 роки тому +2

    How a superconductor works. Everything from the physics and some of the history as well. Superconductors were discovered in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. It was discovered because it was made possible to liquefy helium which produced temperatures down to 2-4 kelvin.
    It was then discovered the resistance drops to 0 after the critical temperature. It is explained by BCS theory, how two electrons goes from fermions and bonds into a boson.
    This theory can be used to leviates trains or everything. Explained by the meissner effect. This video only cover type 1 and not type 2 superconductors.

  • @spencerrodden2669
    @spencerrodden2669 5 років тому +1

    Thank you for the unit conversations most American science videos just us metric units and it makes them come across a little snooty.

    • @Higgsinophysics
      @Higgsinophysics  5 років тому

      No problem man. I used to do web development and my teacher was very strict on getting the application to work for people using outdated internet explore - "You can't ignore the customers". Anyways my point is imperial units is the unit equivalent of outdated internet explorer ;)

  • @zaheeruddin323
    @zaheeruddin323 4 роки тому +2

    Well done man! how do you animate like that ?

  • @amyknodel143
    @amyknodel143 5 років тому +2

    so helpful thank you!!

  • @z.m.4331
    @z.m.4331 3 роки тому

    Amazing video, thanks!

  • @kavithat5844
    @kavithat5844 4 роки тому +1

    Great video. How can we built a magnetic levitation train model. Explain about that.

  • @huiying8744
    @huiying8744 4 роки тому +1

    THIs was a great video! Help mE a lot!

  • @ambarnafees5845
    @ambarnafees5845 3 роки тому

    Very well explained 👍, here I have a question why you called it Quantum dance?

  • @assh4859
    @assh4859 3 роки тому

    3:05 how does this graph make any sense ??? It shows that for Tc you have value range for resistance from 0 to whatever