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The Law of Entropy Increase and the Meissner Effect
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  • Release Date: 2022-07-13
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  • law of entropy increase
  • irreversible thermodynamic process
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This video is adapted from 10.3390/e24010083

The law of entropy increase postulates the existence of irreversible processes in physics: the total entropy of an isolated system can increase, but cannot decrease. The annihilation of an electric current in normal metal with the generation of Joule heat because of a non-zero resistance is a well-known example of an irreversible process. The persistent current, an undamped electric current observed in a superconductor, annihilates after the transition into the normal state. Therefore, this transition was considered as an irreversible thermodynamic process before 1933.

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