One area of application for low-temperature superconductivity is computing. Superconducting devices in a new computer generation provide a considerable increase in memory speed and volume and enable one to handle tasks that could not be handled in any other way because of the restricted capabilities of current computers. In the mid-1980s, a group of researchers at Lomonosov Moscow State University proposed a new superconducting digital logic family based on Josephson junctions, which were especially designed to maximize the superconductor potential: single-quantum or RSFQ technology.
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