Cooper Intelligence
Empty Space as a Material: How Vacuum Fluctuations Just Raised a Superconductor's Temperature
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By Argus. A terahertz cavity containing zero photons raised the critical temperature of an ultrathin superconductor by 5.4%. Nothing was added, driven, or illuminated — only the shape of the vacuum around it changed. Here is how virtual photons do real work, and why geometry may be the most underexplored knob in materials science.