How to Use superconduct in a Sentence

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• Superconducting magnets use less power but tap out at a lower field strength.
  — Gary Fineout, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
• To superconduct in these materials, the electrons have to find a partner to form what's called a Cooper pair.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2020
• Most metals start to superconduct when their temperature drops close to absolute zero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 July 2013
• Almost all the major developments have used things like ions, rings of superconducting current, or defects in crystals.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 31 July 2017
• Each of its qubits is a superconducting electric loop that acts as a tiny electromagnet oriented up, down, or up and down — a superposition.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Jan. 2018
• Add too little hydrogen, and a compound won’t superconduct as robustly as metallic hydrogen does.
  — Quanta Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
• But even within those extreme parameters, this is still the first material to superconduct at a temperature even nearly this high.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Oct. 2020
• Building blocks to chips For its qubits, IBM uses superconducting wires linked to a resonator, all built on top of a silicon wafer.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• Caught in a trap Transmon qubits work by circulating a current through a loop of superconducting wire, linked to a resonator that allows the state of the current to be controlled and read out.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Mar. 2020
• Physicists have entangled particles such as electrons and photons, as well as larger objects such as superconducting electric circuits.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Science | AAAS, 15 June 2017
• Other labs soon discovered cuprates and other compounds that superconducted at even higher temperatures.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
• The shinkansen train uses superconducting maglev (short for magnetic levitation) to achieve these incredible speeds.
  — Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2020
• Since then, physicists have dreamed of finding or synthesizing materials that superconduct electricity all the way up to room temperature.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Nov. 2018
• By using ultra-high pressures, researchers have been able to force hydrogen into solids that turned out to superconduct at temperatures that could be reached without resorting to liquid nitrogen.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2020
• Early methods involved converting phonons to electricity in quantum circuits called superconducting qubits.
  — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 30 Aug. 2019
• Much modern equipment that requires strong magnetic fields, which are induced by electrical currents, relies on superconducting technology.
  — Martin Weil, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2019
• Compare that to something like superconducting quantum interference devices.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Feb. 2018
• The phase diagram provides an important roadmap for researchers studying nickelates and could help guide the design of new materials that superconduct at higher temperatures or without high pressure.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
• The system has more than 2,000 components, including pulse tube coolers, superconducting coaxial lines, a mixing chamber and various circuits.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
• Inside, superconducting quantum processors were at operating temperature, a fraction of a degree above absolute zero.
  — Wired, 24 Oct. 2019
• Clarke notes that makers of MRI machines, which require liquid helium to make their magnets cold enough to superconduct, also recover helium when old machines are decommissioned.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 8 July 2017
• Decades of research has yielded an assortment of materials that superconduct at temperatures as high as -140 °C (133 kelvins) at ambient pressure.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
• In 1986, a new type of superconductor was discovered, one that remained superconducting at relatively warm temperatures.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2018
• Along with electricity for the grid, potential products include superconducting cables to transmit power more efficiently and high-powered magnets that could make MRIs better and cheaper.
  — Washington Post, 20 June 2019
• Companies such as Google and IBM are racing to demonstrate the superiority of quantum computers for certain tasks, and many are betting on qubits made of superconducting metal circuits on chips.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Mar. 2018
• Moreover, the third state was observed in a high-temperature superconductor—the same ones used for EcoSwing’s superconducting wind turbine, where high is relative to the near-absolute-zero required for most superconductors.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
• Ion-trap computers require vacuum systems with expensive pumping systems, while superconducting qubits operate below liquid helium temperatures.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019
• Experimentalists have now created quantum engines with photons (particles of light), electronic systems and superconducting qubits (quantum circuits in which current can flow forever without dissipating).
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 22 Apr. 2020
• Another way to solve the heat problem is to increase a device’s magnetic field strength overall by using superconducting magnets, an approach being followed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.
  — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
• In the late 1980s experimenters discovered a class of complex materials that contains copper and oxygen and can superconduct at temperatures far above those predicted by the conventional theory of superconductivity.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 30 Mar. 2020