Superconductor
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Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance is exactly zero and magnetic fields are expelled from the material. Unlike an ordinary metallic conductor, whose resistance decreases gradually as its temperature is lowered, even down to near absolute zero, a superconductor has a characteristic critical temperature below which the resistance abruptly drops to zero.
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Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance is exactly zero and magnetic fields are expelled from the material. Unlike an ordinary metallic conductor, whose resistance decreases gradually as its temperature is lowered, even down to near absolute zero, a superconductor has a characteristic critical temperature below which the resistance abruptly drops to zero.
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Below the critical temperature, superconductors exhibit zero electrical resistance and expel magnetic fields (Meissner effect), enabling lossless power transmission and generation of strong magnetic fields. The microscopic mechanism is explained by the BCS theory in terms of Cooper pairs (for conventional superconductivity).
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