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by lilgreenland 2574 days ago
Here's my take on a cartoony conductivity simulation. I've got three models: conductors, semiconductors, and semiconductors but with holes.

https://landgreen.github.io/physics/notes/electromagnetism/c...

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Yes, that looks much closer to what I have in mind, although I also tend to think of electrons as not visible individually and doing this as part of a large cloud over a 3-D crystalline substrate.
I like these diagrams. Now I want to see what superconductivity looks like in your framework. An unimpeded stream of electrons flowing as if the red dots aren't even there?
My simulation just runs classical physics (Coulomb's law + Newton's laws). It's missing any mechanism for super conductivity. Although, I could just turn off friction.

I think superconductivity means the electrons pair up and stop colliding through the Pauli exclusion principle. I didn't code any collisions, so maybe it's already modeling a crappy version of superconductivity!