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hyper- +‎ conductor

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hyperconductor (plural hyperconductors)

  1. (physics) A superconductor that also has infinite thermal conductivity (at zero temperature)
    • 2015, Eugeniu Plamadeala, Michael Mulligan, Chetan Nayak, “Transport in a One-Dimensional Hyperconductor”, in arXiv[1]:
      In this paper, we compute the low-temperature DC and AC electrical and thermal conductivities in a one-dimensional hyperconductor, studied previously by the present authors, in the presence of both disorder and umklapp scattering.