hyperconductor

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noun

A superconductor that also has infinite thermal conductivity (at zero temperature)

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Meanings

nounhyperconductor (plural hyperconductors)

plural hyperconductors

  1. natural sciencesA superconductor that also has infinite thermal conductivity (at zero temperature)

    In this paper, we compute the low-temperature DC and AC electrical and thermal conductivities in a one-dimensional hyperconductor, studied previously by the present authors, in the presence of both disorder and umklapp scattering.

    2015, Eugeniu Plamadeala, Michael Mulligan, Chetan Nayak, “Transport in a One-Dimensional Hyperconductor”, in arXiv

Origin

From hyper- + conductor.

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