Testing Loop Quantum Gravity and Electromagnetic Dark Energy in Superconductors

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel explanation for the anomalous mass excess in superconducting rings, linking it to dark energy and loop quantum gravity effects, and suggests an experimental test using electromagnetic black-body radiation.

Contribution

It introduces a new theoretical framework connecting dark energy, loop quantum gravity, and superconducting phenomena, with a specific prediction for quantized spacetime at the Planck-Einstein scale.

Findings

Quantization of spacetime occurs at the Planck-Einstein scale in superconductors.

A new relation between dark energy and superconducting properties is proposed.

An experimental test using electromagnetic black-body radiation is suggested.

Abstract

In 1989 Cabrera and Tate reported an anomalous excess of mass of the Cooper pairs in rotating thin Niobium rings. So far, this experimental result never received a proper theoretical explanation in the context of superconductor's physics. In the present work we argue that what Cabrera and Tate interpreted as an anomalous excess of mass can also be associated with a deviation from the classical gravitomagnetic Larmor theorem due to the presence of dark energy in the superconductor, as well as with the discrete structure of the area of the superconducting Niobium ring as predicted by Loop Quantum Gravity. From Cabrera and Tate measurements we deduce that the quantization of spacetime in superconducting circular rings occurs at the Planck-Einstein scale $l_{PE} = (\hbar G/c^3 \Lambda)^{1/4}\sim 3.77\times 10 ^{-5} m$, instead of the Planck scale $l_{P} =(\hbar G / c^3)^{1/2}=1.61 \times 10 ^{-35} m$, with an Immirzi parameter which depends on the specific critical temperature of the superconducting material and on the area of the ring. The stephan-Boltzmann law for quantized areas delimited by superconducting rings is predicted, and an experimental concept based on the electromagnetic black-body radiation emitted by this surfaces, is proposed to test loop quantum gravity and electromagnetic dark energy in superconductors.