A microscopic theory of type-1.5 superconductivity has been reported.
In addition, composite fermions also lead to a detailed and accurate microscopic theory of this quantum liquid.
Their treatment is extremely challenging for microscopic theories due to the lack of detailed knowledge about perturbations of the ideal structure.
BCS theory is the first microscopic theory of superconductivity since its discovery in 1911.
The set of different microscopic theories described by the same scale-invariant theory is known as a universality class.
It has since been described through phenomenological and microscopic theories.
That was too microscopic and parochial a theory.
In those cases no macroscopic theory exists and a microscopic theory like, quantum mechanical dispersion theory, has to be applied.
A microscopic theory makes it for example possible to approach the selection rule for dipole scattering in a more exact way.
The first attempt to create the microscopic theory of the superfluid component itself was done by London.