Towards a physical lattice model for the atom and implications for high-Tc superconductivity
Starting from Cook’s model [D. N. Cook, Models of the Atomic Nucleus (Springer, Berlin, 2006)], we proposed a non-Archimedean approach to show that we can transform his purely mathematical model into a physical one. In the first stage, we kept the f.c.c. lattice model surrounded by a vapor phase from which we can only extract “symmetric” entities (quantons?) which are the electrons. This in our opinion gives a much better global view of what the atom could be. When assembling the nuclei into a lattice, there is reciprocal influence between the vapor phase and the lattice. Consequently, superconductivity occurs when temperature decrease brings to freezing the vapor phase and when the “crystallization” of the vapor phase gives some symmetric tiling of the volume around the lattice, thanks to Curie’s theorem. Looking for high temperature superconductivity therefore is equivalent to finding symmetric crystallization of the vapor phase. In that sense this pleads for the use of heterogeneous materials in the “crystal grid” and the case being play with impurities. We do not see any limit, thanks to our model, for high and even very high temperatures for superconductivity.