Im Jahr 1911 entdeckte Heike Kamerlingh Onnes die Supraleitung bei der Untersuchung des Widerstands von festem Quecksilber. kryogen temperatures. He observed that the electrical resistance of mercury abruptly dropped to zero at a kritische Temperatur ([latex]T_c[/latex]) of 4.2 K. This phenomenon, termed superconductivity, represents a state of matter with exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic fields.

















