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IT is customary to describe the supraconductive state of a metal by setting its specific electric conductivity a equal to infinity. I wish to direct attention to another possibility, namely, that the supraconductive state can be described much more adequately by setting equal to infinity the dielectric constant ɛ of the substance, its conductivity a remaining finite or even becoming equal to zero.
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Cf. J. Frenkel, NATURE, 132, 312, Aug. 26, 1933.
Z. Phys., 80, 203; 1933.
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FRENKEL, J. The Explanation of Supraconductivity. Nature 133, 730–731 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133730a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/133730a0