superconductor
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Superconductors are used to make large electromagnets, and they are starting to play a major role in industry.
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The second generation of the Majorana chip is based on the same principles as the first but is more effective in part because the scientists replaced aluminium with lead as a superconductor.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
So far, superconductor use has been limited primarily to research in quantum computing and high-performance sensing systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
"If the correlations are too strong, electrons get frozen in place. If they're too weak, the material loses its special topological properties. But at just the right level, you get a topological superconductor."
From Science Daily • Feb. 25, 2026
IonQ’s approach manipulates trapped ions with magnets and lasers, which it thinks will prove easier to perfect than the superconductor technologies under development at competitors IBM, Alphabet’s Google and Rigetti.
From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026
But the children's wire was a superconductor at room temperature.
From Long Ago, Far Away by Leinster, Murray
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