Kinetic energy driven superconductivity and superfluidity

TL;DR

This paper suggests that both superconductivity and superfluidity are driven by kinetic energy reduction and zero point rotational motion, challenging conventional quantum mechanics and explaining phenomena like the Meissner effect and helium's creep.

Contribution

It extends the kinetic energy driven superconductivity theory to superfluid helium, proposing a common physical mechanism involving zero point rotational motion.

Findings

Superfluid helium exhibits negative thermal expansion below the lambda point.

Superfluid helium demonstrates the Onnes effect, creeping up container walls.

The physics explains the Meissner effect and superfluid creep via zero point rotational motion.

Abstract

The theory of hole superconductivity proposes that superconductivity is driven by lowering of quantum kinetic energy and is associated with expansion of electronic orbits and expulsion of negative charge from the interior to the surface of superconductors and beyond. This physics provides a dynamical explanation of the Meissner effect. Here we propose that similar physics takes place in superfluid helium 4. Experimental manifestations of this physics in $^4He$ are the negative thermal expansion of $^4He$ below the $\lambda$ point and the "Onnes effect", the fact that superfluid helium will creep up the walls of the container and escape to the exterior. The Onnes effect and the Meissner effect are proposed to originate in macroscopic zero point rotational motion of the superfluids. It is proposed that this physics indicates a fundamental inadequacy of conventional quantum mechanics.