Kinetic energy driven superfluidity and superconductivity and the origin of the Meissner effect

TL;DR

This paper argues that both superfluidity and superconductivity are driven by kinetic energy, with evidence from helium-4's transition shape and the Meissner effect, proposing a common origin in rotational zero point motion.

Contribution

It introduces the idea that superfluidity and superconductivity are fundamentally driven by kinetic energy and links this to rotational zero point motion as their common origin.

Findings

Superfluidity in helium-4 is kinetic energy driven, evidenced by the shape of the lambda transition.

Superconductivity is kinetic energy driven, evidenced by the Meissner effect.

Superconductors expel negative charge and host a spin current in the ground state.

Abstract

Superfluidity and superconductivity have many elements in common. However, I argue that their most important commonality has been overlooked: that both are kinetic energy driven. Clear evidence that superfluidity in $^4He$ is kinetic energy driven is the shape of the $\lambda$ transition and the negative thermal expansion coefficient below $T_\lambda$. Clear evidence that superconductivity is kinetic energy driven is the Meissner effect: I argue that otherwise the Meissner effect would not take place. Associated with this physics I predict that superconductors expel negative charge from the interior to the surface and that a spin current exists in the ground state of superconductors (spin Meissner effect). I propose that this common physics of superconductors and superfluids originates in rotational zero point motion. This view of superconductivity and superfluidity implies that rotational zero-point motion is a fundamental property of the quantum world that is missed in the current understanding.