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Chasing absolute zero

Dilution refrigerators are roughly human-size plumbing systems that use rare helium-3 (He-3) to chill tiers of copper plates to millikelvins (mK), near absolute zero. These temperatures are required for sensitive technologies, such as the chips that power quantum computers.

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