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THE conception of a pure supraconducting state has proved to be useful for the description of those phenomena of supraconductivity in which no phase transitions into the non-supraconducting state are implicated. In the pure supraconducting state the supraconductor shows no macroscopic electromagnetic field (E = 0, B = 0). It has been shown1 that this state can be described by a consistent theory in which the idea of an infinite conductivity is replaced by the conception that, by a general relation, the supracurrents are connected with the magnetic field. The latter penetrates into the supraconductor only as deep as the supracurrents flow.
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LONDON, F. Electrodynamics of Macroscopic Fields in Supraconductors. Nature 137, 991–992 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137991b0
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