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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 • Mar. 4, 2026
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 • Mar. 4, 2026
This device, called a Kitaev minimal chain, consists of two semiconductor quantum dots connected through a superconductor.
From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 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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