Condensed Matter / Physics / Science And Math

Superconductors and the Valence Band

In the comments for my last post, Hamilton asked the following question: What does the band structure for a superconductor look like? I’m not an expert on this topic,  but I thought I’d share what I know. Take it with a grain of salt. I also wanted to warn you all that my site will be going down for maintenance this Sunday. I apologize for the inconvenience. I don’t know if this will affect my regular Sunday post. The current most popular theory of superconductors is BCS theory, which is incomplete. BCS theory says that at extremely low temperatures,