Meissner effect

English

Etymology

For Walther Meißner, German physicist.

Noun

Meissner effect (plural Meissner effects)

  1. (physics) The total expulsion of magnetic flux from the interior of a superconducting metal when it is cooled in a magnetic field below a critical temperature, near absolute zero, at which the transition to superconductivity takes place.
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