Possible Measurable Effects of Dark Energy in Rotating Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper proposes that dark energy interactions with Cooper pairs in superconductors can explain anomalous laboratory effects, linking these phenomena to spontaneous symmetry breaking and modifications of gravitational and electromagnetic properties.

Contribution

It introduces a Ginzburg-Landau-like model of electromagnetic dark energy that accounts for unexplained experimental effects in rotating superconductors, connecting them to fundamental symmetry breaking.

Findings

Model explains anomalous acceleration signals

Model accounts for anomalous gyroscope signals

Model predicts Cooper pair mass excess

Abstract

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.