Physics:Quantum materials/superconductor

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A superconductor is a material that exhibits zero electrical resistance and expels magnetic fields when cooled below a critical temperature.

A superconductor expels magnetic fields (Meissner effect) and allows current to flow without resistance.

Description

In the superconducting state, electrons form correlated pairs and move coherently through the material without energy loss. This behavior arises from quantum effects that extend across the entire material.

Superconductivity is a macroscopic quantum phenomenon and is closely related to the structure of the material’s band structure.

Properties

• zero electrical resistance
• expulsion of magnetic fields
• occurs below a critical temperature
• macroscopic quantum state

Index

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1. Materials

2. Matter

3. Plasma and fusion physics

4. Molecules

5. Nuclear matter

Sub-molecular

6. Atoms

7. Particles

8. Composite particles

9. Fields

10. Vacuum and spacetime

Full contents

1. Materials (6) ↑ Back to index

1. Physics:Quantum materials/band structure

2. Physics:Quantum materials/phonon

3. Physics:Quantum materials/superconductor

4. Physics:Quantum materials/topological phase

5. Physics:Quantum materials/crystal lattice

6. Physics:Quantum materials/solid state

2. Matter (5) ↑ Back to index

7. Physics:Quantum matter/phase

8. Physics:Quantum matter/state of matter

9. Physics:Quantum matter/thermodynamic system

10. Physics:Quantum matter/density

11. Physics:Quantum matter/temperature

3. Plasma and fusion physics (6) ↑ Back to index

12. Physics:Quantum Tokamak

13. Physics:Quantum Fusion

14. Physics:Quantum matter/plasma

15. Physics:Quantum magnetic confinement

16. Physics:Quantum Lawson criterion

17. Physics:Quantum Quark–gluon plasma

4. Molecules (6) ↑ Back to index

18. Physics:Quantum molecular structure

19. Physics:Quantum chemical bond

20. Physics:Quantum molecular orbital

21. Physics:Quantum degenerate orbitals

22. Physics:Quantum molecular spectroscopy

23. Physics:Quantum molecular vibration

5. Nuclear matter (6) ↑ Back to index

24. Physics:Quantum atomic nucleus

25. Physics:Quantum nuclear matter

26. Physics:Quantum isotope

27. Physics:Quantum deuteron

28. Physics:Quantum nuclear binding energy

29. Physics:Quantum nuclear force

6. Atoms (7) ↑ Back to index

30. Physics:Quantum atoms/electron

31. Physics:Quantum atoms/energy level

32. Physics:Quantum atoms/electron configuration

33. Physics:Quantum atoms/transition

34. Physics:Quantum atoms/ion

35. Physics:Quantum atoms/orbital

36. Physics:Quantum atoms/hydrogen

7. Particles (12) ↑ Back to index

37. Physics:Quantum particle

38. Physics:Quantum elementary particle

39. Physics:Quantum fermion

40. Physics:Quantum boson

41. Physics:Quantum lepton

42. Physics:Quantum electron

43. Physics:Quantum neutrino

44. Physics:Quantum quark

45. Physics:Quantum photon

46. Physics:Quantum gluon

47. Physics:Quantum W and Z bosons

48. Physics:Quantum Higgs boson

8. Composite particles (12) ↑ Back to index

49. Physics:Quantum hadron

50. Physics:Quantum baryon

51. Physics:Quantum meson

52. Physics:Quantum nucleon

53. Physics:Quantum proton

54. Physics:Quantum neutron

55. Physics:Quantum pion

56. Physics:Quantum kaon

57. Physics:Quantum glueball

58. Physics:Quantum tetraquark

59. Physics:Quantum pentaquark

60. Physics:Quantum exotic hadron

9. Fields (6) ↑ Back to index

61. Physics:Quantum field theory

62. Physics:Quantum electromagnetic field

63. Physics:Quantum gauge field

64. Physics:Quantum scalar field

65. Physics:Quantum vacuum field

66. Physics:Quantum wavefunction field

10. Vacuum and spacetime (6) ↑ Back to index

67. Physics:Quantum spacetime

68. Physics:Quantum vacuum energy

69. Physics:Quantum virtual particle

70. Physics:Quantum zero-point energy

71. Physics:Quantum curved spacetime

72. Physics:Quantum quantum gravity

References

Author: Harold Foppele

Source attribution: Physics:Quantum materials/superconductor