This is reminiscent of their behaviour in conventional superconductors, where they wander around in pairs.

ECONOMIST: Magnetism

As a result, low-temperature superconductors are used only in devices where there is no substitute for their remarkable properties.

ECONOMIST: Inside story

Helium-cooled superconductors like those found in MRI machines and the LHC cannot, however, compete with ordinary copper wire in more pedestrian applications, like transmission cables, where the advantages of superconductivity do not merit the enormous costs.

ECONOMIST: Inside story

My proposal with this fellowship will use the novel method of applying an electric field gradient instead of chemical substitution to induce charge carriers in large gap insulators, and thereby create new superconductors.

UNESCO: 2013 UK and Ireland Fellows

X-ray detectors in the semiconductor industry could be the best chance that superconductors have of becoming a useful technology.

ECONOMIST: Microrefrigeration

From an economic standpoint, that obviously has some advantages over more expensive materials such as superconductors or diamonds, which have been used in other quantum computation applications.

FORBES: Scientists Create A One-Atom Transistor

Alexei Abrikosov, who now works at the Argonne National Laboratory, in Illinois, and Vitaly Ginzburg of the Lebedev Physical Institute, in Moscow, were responsible for discovering how type-II superconductors work (it is all down to the behaviour of their electrons).

ECONOMIST: The Nobel prizes