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by mort96 1045 days ago
No, I believe it's literally zero but we don't have a measurement apparatus with infinite precision so we need some cut-off.
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It's only literal zero for superconductors close to 0K temperature.

For high temperature superconductors (50-70+K), it's not literal zero for superconducting mechanisms discovered so far.

Thanks, that makes sense.