How Do Superconductors React to External Electric Fields?

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A magnetic field is excluded in a superconductor so what happens to its electrical counterpart? Does it also become excluded? How do superconductors respond to external electric fields?
 
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The current flows very near the surface or else there would be a B field inside. Amperes law.
What do you know about how E fields affect conductors and Gauss's law?
 

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