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- noun The effect associated with the tunneling of electron pairs across an insulating barrier separating two superconductors.
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- noun physics the
zero -voltage current ofpaired electrons through a weakconnection betweensuperconductors
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[After Brian David Josephson, (born 1940), British physicist.]
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From Brian David Josephson Welsh physicist
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