Experiments at liquid helium temperatures on macroscopic quantum effects and general relativity. Final report

Technical Report · Sun Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1965

OSTI ID:7218375

A review is presented of research in the following three areas: (1) preliminary research on the design of a low temperature Gyro experiment to check the general theory of relativity by an experiment proposed by L.I. Schiff; (2) quantized flux in superconductors which is found to be in integral units of Hc/2E instead of Hc/E; and (3) the scattering of light from He II to see quantized vortices. During this investigation, a superconducting circuit was developed capable in principle of measuring 10 to the -11th power gauss, and the idea of a truly zero magnetic field region was conceived, made possible by the fact of flux quantization in superconductors.

• Research Organization: Stanford Univ., CA (USA). Dept. of Physics
• OSTI ID: 7218375
• Report Number(s): AD-623790; AFOSR-65-1600
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
FIELD THEORIES
GENERAL RELATIVITY THEORY
HELIUM 4
HELIUM II
HELIUM ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
LIGHT SCATTERING
MAGNETIC FLUX
NUCLEI
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
STABLE ISOTOPES
SUPERCONDUCTORS