Exotic spinors in superconductivity
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 20 (2), 231-240
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.524069
Abstract
The existence of inequivalent types of spinors in spaces which are not simply connected is mathematically investigated. The mathematical results provide a purely geometrical explanation of the charge dependence of quantized flux and Josephson current in superconductivity.Keywords
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