: a theoretical temperature characterized by complete absence of heat and motion and equivalent to exactly −273.15°C or −459.67°F
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Recent Examples on the WebIn the future, connected ecosystem utilities will achieve ambitious climate targets—not just net-zero but absolute zero. Deepak Garg, Forbes, 10 June 2022 This sensor detects the longest wavelengths of Webb’s instruments and must be kept at minus 449 F – just 11 degrees F above absolute zero.al, 10 July 2022 Over 11 days in late summer 1985, a group of scientists and graduate students gathered at Rice University in Houston to use a powerful laser to vaporize carbon and chill the atoms to near absolute zero. Brian Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2022 As Chinese government officials have repeatedly said, a dynamic zero-Covid strategy does not seek absolute zero infection. Yanzhong Huang, CNN, 30 June 2022 Certain materials and scenarios have the potential to form time crystals at far higher temperatures than the near absolute zero often required, like phenomena observed in nickel-iron alloy and even light itself. Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2022 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 team also cooled the particles to near absolute zero and eliminated any other interference to see what happens when quantum effects overrule classical physics. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022 Researchers are cooling atomic systems to near absolute zero for use as quantum simulators to study applications in superconductors and superfluids. Andrea Gawrylewski, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2021 See More