{"id":244134,"date":"2026-09-17T05:25:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-turned-empty-space-into-a-tool-for-superconductivity"},"modified":"2026-09-17T05:25:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:25:35","slug":"researchers-turned-empty-space-into-a-tool-for-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/researchers-turned-empty-space-into-a-tool-for-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Turned \u201cEmpty Space\u201d Into a Tool for Superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-turned-empty-space-into-a-tool-for-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and enhance superconductivity in a thin material.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Empty space is not truly empty. Even a vacuum contains restless quantum fluctuations, and researchers have now shown for the first time that these normally subtle effects can be engineered to strengthen superconductivity.<\/p>\n<p>The work, led by Changgan Zeng and Guanghui Cheng of the University of Science and Technology of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with Qingdong Jiang of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and other collaborators, was published in <em><i>Nature<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers used a specially designed cavity to strengthen quantum vacuum fluctuations and enhance superconductivity in a thin material. Empty space is not truly empty. Even a vacuum contains restless quantum fluctuations, and researchers have now shown for the first time that these normally subtle effects can be engineered to strengthen superconductivity. The work, led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244134","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=244134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}