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What is the Meissner effect?


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  1. When a superconductor is cooled below the critical temperature, the Meissner effect occurs, which causes a magnetic field to be ejected from it when it enters the superconducting state.
  2. Inside of a superconducting material were cooled below their superconducting transition temperature in the presence of an applied magnetic field, which caused the samples to cancel almost all interior magnetic fields.
  3. Due to a superconductor's ability to conserve magnetic flux, which causes an increase in the outer field while the inside field diminishes, they were only able to measure this impact indirectly.
  4. The Meissner state is defined as a superconductor with little to no magnetic field inside of it.
  5. When the magnetic field that is being applied is too powerful, the Meissner state disintegrates.

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