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Superconducting protons in metals

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

The hitherto neglected phonon-exchange interaction between interstitial protons in metal lattices is found to be large. It is shown that this effect may give rise to a phase of protonic superconductivity, characterized by the formation of Cooper-like pairs of protons, in certain metals at high stoichiometric loading.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0504019,
  title  = {Superconducting protons in metals},
  author = {J. S. Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0504019},
  year   = {2007}
}