Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrical current flowing through a superconductor.
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- noun physics The
current flowing through asuperconductor
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Examples
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The first effect is that a supercurrent may flow even if no voltage is applied.
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This implies that we get a supercurrent through the barrier.
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The other half is awarded to Josephson for his theoretical predictions of properties in a supercurrent flowing through a tunnel barrier, in particular the phenomena generally known as the Josephson effects.
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One of these effects means that a supercurrent can flow through a tunnel barrier even when no voltage is applied to the barrier.
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"for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects"
Physics 1973 1973
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