superconductor

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1. A material that can develop superconductivity (see also superconductivity).

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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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So far, superconductor use has been limited primarily to research in quantum computing and high-performance sensing systems.

From The Wall Street Journal

I met with him recently to understand how he intends to make that work, by moving superconductor manufacturing out of boutique labs and into commercial fabs.

From The Wall Street Journal

By carefully changing the proportion of these elements, they discovered they could push the material from one quantum phase to another, including the sought after topological superconductor phase.

From Science Daily

"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

The ultra thin films developed by Yang's group offer several advantages over other topological superconductor candidates.

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