For decades, superconductivity has been treated as a property controlled primarily by temperature, magnetic fields, chemical composition and pressure. A new experiment now suggests that the electromagnetic environment surrounding a material may also be used to tune its quantum behavior. In a study published in Nature, researchers report evidence that vacuum fluctuations inside a specially designed cavity can enhance superconductivity in niobium …
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