 
In superconductivity, Homes's law is an empirical relation that states that a superconductor's 
critical temperature ("T"c) is proportional to the strength of the superconducting state for temperatures well below "T"c close to zero temperature (also referred to as the fully formed superfluid density, formula_1) multiplied by the electrical resistivity formula_2 measured just above the critical temperature. In cuprate high-temperature superconductors the relation follows the form
formula_3,
or alternatively
formula_4.
Many novel superconductors are anisotropic, so the resistivity and the superfluid density are 
tensor quantities; the superscript formula_5 denotes the crystallographic direction 
along which these quantities are measured.
Note that this expression assumes that the conductivity and temperature have both been recast in units
of cm−1 (or s−1), and that the superfluid density has units of cm−2 
(or s−2); the constant is dimensionless. The expected form for a BCS dirty-limit superconductor 
has slightly larger numerical constant of ~8.1.
The law is named for physicist Christopher Homes and was first presented in the July 29, 2004 edition of Nature, and was the subject of a News and Views article by Jan Zaanen in the same issue in which he speculated that the high transition temperatures observed in the 
cuprate superconductors are because the metallic states in these materials are as viscous as
permitted by the laws of quantum physics. A more detailed version of this scaling relation subsequently appeared in
Physical Review B in 2005, in which it was argued that any material that falls on the scaling line is likely in the 
dirty limit (superconducting coherence length ξ0 is much greater than the normal-state mean-free path "l",
ξ0≫ "l"); however, a paper by Vladimir Kogan in Physical Review B in 2013 has shown that the 
scaling relation is valid even when ξ0~ "l", 
suggesting that only materials in the clean limit (ξ0≪ "l") will fall off of this scaling line.
Francis Pratt and Stephen Blundell have argued that Homes's law is violated in the organic superconductors. This 
work was first presented in Physical Review Letters in March 2005. On the other hand, it has been recently demonstrated by Sasa Dordevic and coworkers that 
if the dc conductivity and the superfluid density are measured on the same sample at the same time using either infrared 
or microwave impedance spectroscopy, then the organic superconductors do indeed fall on the universal scaling line, 
along with a number of other exotic superconductors. This work was published in Scientific Reports in 
2013.