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Superconductivity and the pendulum

2005· book-chapter· en· W4388373246 on OpenAlexaff
Gregory L. Baker, James A. Blackburn

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicExperimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
Canadian institutionsWilfrid Laurier University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSuperconductivityPhysicistPendulumJosephson effectPhysicsConnection (principal bundle)Theoretical physicsSuperfluidityQuantum mechanicsClassical mechanicsMathematicsGeometry

Abstract

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Abstract There is a quite unexpected connection between the classical pendulum— chaotic or otherwise—and quantum mechanics when it functions on a macroscopic scale, as happens in superconductors. More specifically, the connection arises through something known as the Josephson effect. It turns out that there is an exact correspondence between the dynamics of Josephson devices and the dynamics of the classical pendulum. To uncover this curious relationship, we first review some essential ideas about superconductors and superconducting devices. The Dutch physicist H. Kamerlingh Onnes , noted in an earlier chapter for his Ph.D. dissertation on the Foucault pendulum, made his mark in the world of science for great discoveries in low temperature physics. Three years after receiving his degree in 1879, Onnes ascended to the chair in experimental physics at the University of Leiden in Holland. His research interest was low temperature physics and, like others in England and on the continent, he worked to achieve ever lower temperatures through the liquefaction of gases.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.487
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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