How to Use absolute zero in a Sentence

absolute zero

noun

• Researchers just found a new way to get an object to absolute zero.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
• Inside the chamber, a gas of atoms is cooled to just above absolute zero.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Dec. 2025
• People might have learned at some point in school that at absolute zero, all motion stops.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 26 July 2023
• The atoms have to be cold—just above absolute zero—because heat rises.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 27 Sep. 2023
• Then the team cooled the tardigrades down even further, to just above absolute zero.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2021
• To do so, physicists use lasers to cool atoms to just a trillionth of a degree above absolute zero.
  — Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020
• Researchers have used lasers to get things down to millionths of a degree above absolute zero.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2016
• So quantum computers need to be kept very cold, just a tad above absolute zero.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Jan. 2021
• There were no scrums, barely any big hits and absolute zero sense of disdain from one bench to the other.
  — Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
• Instead it is warmed to nearly three kelvins (just above absolute zero) by weak microwaves.
  — Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
• Using lasers, scientists can deep-freeze atoms down to a hair’s breadth above absolute zero.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2021
• Then, using lasers, the researchers chilled the atoms to near absolute zero to stop them from jiggling.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 18 Jan. 2026
• Other quantum labs freeze their stay-at-home photons to near-absolute zero as a way of tapping the brakes.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2020
• The researchers cooled the sample near absolute zero.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Feb. 2026
• Remarkably, a liquid film still forms between ice and ski, even near absolute zero.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
• On the flip side, absolute zero — cold so cold there’s nowhere to go but up — is almost within scientists’ grasp.
  — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2019
• Once trapped, the ions are reduced to a ground state through lasers, similar to what freezing them at absolute zero achieves.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• Once trapped, the ions are reduced to a ground state through lasers, similar to what freezing them at absolute zero achieves.
  — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
• As space expands, that energy will cool to absolute zero, bringing on the heat death of our universe.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• The atoms existed just billionths of a degree above absolute zero.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 June 2026
• In the authors' setup, the controller is a cloud of rubidium atoms cooled to near absolute zero and held in a trap.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2022
• The telescope faces engineering challenges, such as the need to keep it just a few degrees above absolute zero.
  — Leah Brennan, baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
• Researchers have tried for decades to reach absolute zero, which is thought to be impossible to ever attain.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2017
• The photons have cooled to just a few degrees above absolute zero, and their wavelengths have stretched into the microwave part of the spectrum.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 3 June 2024
• Researchers used two qubits cooled close to absolute zero and linked through microwave photons traveling between the chips.
  — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 27 May 2026
• Like Luke Skywalker on Hoth cold–just a few degrees above absolute zero.
  — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2024
• Atoms must be trapped, cooled almost to absolute zero, and probed with lasers tuned to astonishing levels of precision.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 27 Sep. 2025
• In the distant future, the universe will approach absolute zero at the end of everything (see below).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 3 Mar. 2022
• Even at absolute zero, spins continue to fluctuate, analogous to how atoms slosh in a liquid.
  — Quanta Magazine, 2 Dec. 2021
• Schoelkopf’s company uses tiny loops of superconducting wire chilled to close to absolute zero for its qubits.
  — Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 26 Nov. 2019