  Under disturbances, superconductors may experience sudden, most undesirable
phase transitions (quench) from superconducting to normal conducting state.
Quench may lead to damage or even to catastrophic conductor failure. A
superconductor is stable if it does not quench. Exact determination of
superconductor transient, resistive states (flux flow, Ohmic) thus is mandatory
to safely avoid quench. This request sharp comparison of local, transient
conductor temperature and current transport density with local values of
critical superconductor temperature, TCrit, and critical current density,
JCrit, and the latter is a strong function of temperature. Numerical, Finite
Element simulations reported previously and in this paper have provided the
requested, transient temperature distribution; under disturbances, this
distribution may strongly be non-uniform. But what happens if the other
variable, TCrit, might not uniquely be defined? A multi-physics model
(fractional parentage, Pauli selection rule, time of flight-concept with a
mediating Boson, the Yukawa model and the uncertainty principle) provides
relaxation time at which TCrit, as the thermodynamic, equilibrium state,
finally would be obtained. But relaxation time diverges the closer the electron
system approaches the phase transition, which questions existence of uniquely
defined TCrit within finite process time. In this paper, focus is on multiple
internal heat transfer (solid conduction and, in thin films, radiation), a
suggested operator method to solve the incompleteness problem of radiative
transfer, and time dependence of the order parameter obtained from the
quantum-mechanical model. Traditional stability models cannot provide this
information.
