  The Meissner effect for superconductors in spacetimes with torsion is
revisited. Two new physical interpretations are presented. The first considers
the Landau-Ginzburg theory yields a new symmetry-breaking vacuum depending on
torsion. In the second interpretation a gravitational Meissner torsional effect
where when the Higgs field vanishes, torsion and electromagnetic fields need
not vanish and outside the Abrikosov tubes a torsion vector analogous to the
Maxwell potential is obtained. The analogy is even stronger if we think that in
this case the torsion vector has to be derivable from a torsion potential.
Another solution of Landau-Ginzburg equation is shown to lead naturally to the
geometrization of the electromagnetism in terms of the torsion field. As an
application we show that Landau-Ginzburg equations extended to Cartan spaces
allow us to determine torsion in the case when the order parameter is frozen to
a minimum. It is shown that the presence of torsion in solid state physics
changes the ground state of the superfluid phases.
