ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF USE OF ENERGY OF THE PERSISTENT CURRENT FOR MAKING OF A QUANTUM POWER SOURCE
An electric current induced in a resistive circuit will rapidly decay in the absence of an applied voltage. But the persistent current, quantum phenomenon observed in rings of superconductors, normal metals and semiconductors due to the Bohr quantization and the Aharonov-Bohm effect does not decay any long time under these conditions. It was discovered that the persistent current, like conventional circular current, induces a DC voltage when the asymmetric ring or its segments are switched between superconducting and normal states. This experimental result clearly suggests that the asymmetric ring is a DC power source under certain conditions. It is proposed to use the system of asymmetric superconducting rings as a working DC source in the case when the rings are switched by non-equilibrium thermal noise.