Abstract
With recent excitement on high temperature superconductors, I was trying to educate myself on the intricacies of superconductivity by reading an article in the Journal of Chemical Education (Matsen, 1987). To explain the mechanism the article stated: “The ‘sudden polarisation’ theory provides a novel, high speed, long distance electron-pair transport mechanism. The mechanism is adapted from a theory of vision in which transmission of optical signals from the retina to the brain is by ‘sudden polarisation.’ Here an optically excited state of retinal is ‘suddenly polarised’ by an external magnetic field during the change in nuclear coordinates. In the application of ‘sudden polarisation’ to superconductivity, we replace retinal by a linear chain of two M-sites, ionic and valence bond states….”
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Rohatgi-Mukherjee, K.K. (1991). Themes and Trends in Photobiology. In: Riklis, E. (eds) Photobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3732-8_2
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