superconducting

American  

[soo-per-kuhn-duhkt-ing] / ˌsu pər kənˈdʌkt ɪŋ /

adjective

1. displaying almost perfect conductivity, or no electrical resistance.

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Example Sentences

And unlike the superconducting loops favored by International Business Machines and Google, which must be chilled to temperatures colder than deep space, photonic interconnects can operate at room temperature.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

"Our measurements revealed a three-dimensional superconducting halo that wraps around the hard b-axis of the crystal," said Sylvia Lewin of NIST, a co-lead author on the study.

From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2026

Crucially, researchers estimate that breaking the elliptic curve cryptography protecting Bitcoin and most major cryptos could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits on a superconducting quantum computer.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The medical industry uses it to cool the superconducting magnets inside MRI scanners.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

All it needed was to be immersed in its bath of liquid helium to make the metals superconducting, and it would be ready to go to work.

From Unwise Child by Garrett, Randall