{"id":232206,"date":"2026-02-27T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/matching-vibrations-is-all-it-takes-to-shut-down-superconductivity-in-a-nearby-crystal"},"modified":"2026-02-27T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:29:09","slug":"matching-vibrations-is-all-it-takes-to-shut-down-superconductivity-in-a-nearby-crystal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/matching-vibrations-is-all-it-takes-to-shut-down-superconductivity-in-a-nearby-crystal","title":{"rendered":"Matching vibrations is all it takes to shut down superconductivity in a nearby crystal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/matching-vibrations-is-all-it-takes-to-shut-down-superconductivity-in-a-nearby-crystal.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you\u2019ll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, these include random vibrations that can alter electromagnetic fields, a feature that theorists have posited could be quite useful for modifying materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a holy grail we\u2019ve been searching for decades,\u201d said Dmitri Basov, Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia. \u201cWe believe we\u2019ve found it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-10062-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature<\/i>, Basov and 32 collaborators from 17 institutions came together to confirm that quantum fluctuations alone from the vacuum inside atom-thin layers of 2D materials can alter the properties of a larger nearby crystal\u2014a theoretical possibility now experimentally realized for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you\u2019ll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, these include random vibrations that can alter electromagnetic fields, a feature that theorists have posited could be quite useful for modifying materials. \u201cIt\u2019s a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}