2007/07/12 by Clovis Jacinto de Matos, Christian Beck
Physics and Astronomy · #Acceleration #Cooper pair #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dark energy #Gauge (firearms) #Meissner effect #Photon #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Superconductivity #astro-ph #cond-mat.supr-con #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1155/2009/931920
22 pages
arxiv created 2007/07/12 · openalex publication_date 2009/01/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We discuss recent laboratory experiments with rotating superconductors and show that three so far unexplained experimentally observed effects (anomalous acceleration signals, anomalous gyroscope signals, Cooper pair mass excess) can be physically explained in terms of a possible interaction of dark energy with Cooper pairs. Our approach is based on a Ginzburg‐Landau‐like model of electromagnetic dark energy, where gravitationally active photons obtain mass in the superconductor. We show that this model can account simultaneously for the anomalous acceleration and anomalous gravitomagnetic fields around rotating superconductors measured by Tajmar et al. and for the anomalous Cooper pair mass in superconductive Niobium, measured by Cabrera and Tate. It is argued that these three different physical effects are ultimately different experimental manifestations of the simultaneous spontaneous breaking of gauge invariance and of the principle of general covariance in superconductive materials.