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Meissner effect
Sign in to saveexpulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state
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- Instance of
- phenomenon
- Named after
- Walther Meissner
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- Meissner effect
- time of discovery or invention
- 1933-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Robert Ochsenfeld
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Encyclopedic overview
Diagram of the Meissner effect. Magnetic field lines, represented as arrows, are excluded from a superconductor when it is below its critical temperature.
In condensed-matter physics, the Meissner effect (or Meissner–Ochsenfeld effect) is the expulsion of a magnetic field from a superconductor during its transition to the superconducting state when it is cooled below the critical temperature. This expulsion will repel a nearby magnet.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meissner effect” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.