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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Cavity-enhanced superconductivity in MgB

I-Te Lu, Dongbin Shin, Mark Kamper Svendsen, Hannes Hübener, Umberto De Giovannini, Simone Latini, Michael Ruggenthaler, Angel Rubio

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  5. Optically Activated Superconductivity in MgBMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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  6. The path to room-temperature superconductivity: A programmatic approach.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  11. Light's hidden power: Vacuum fluctuations reshape superconductivity from within.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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8 authors.

I-Te LuTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Dongbin ShinTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Mark Kamper SvendsenTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Hannes HübenerTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Umberto De GiovanniniTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Simone LatiniTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Michael RuggenthalerTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.
Angel RubioTheory Department, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter and Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, 22761 Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2060-3151

Funding

Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung (AvH) Humboldt Research FellowshipDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) EXC 2056Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) SFB925National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00241630National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2024-00333664
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strong laser pulses can control superconductivity, inducing nonequilibrium transient pairing by leveraging strong-light matter interaction. Here, we demonstrate theoretically that equilibrium ground-state phonon-mediated superconductive pairing can be affected through the vacuum fluctuating electromagnetic field in a cavity. Using the recently developed ab initio quantum electrodynamical density-functional theory approximation, we specifically investigate the phonon-mediated superconductive behavior of MgB[Formula: see text] under different cavity setups and find that in the strong light-matter coupling regime its superconducting transition temperature T[Formula: see text] can be enhanced at most by [Formula: see text]10% in an in-plane (or out-of-plane) polarized and realistic cavity via photon vacuum fluctuations. The results highlight that strong light-matter coupling in extended systems can profoundly alter material properties in a nonperturbative way by modifying their electronic structure and phononic dispersion at the same time. Our findings indicate a pathway to the experimental realization of light-controlled superconductivity in solid-state materials at equilibrium via cavity materials engineering.

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cavity quantum electrodynamicscondensed matter physicselectronic structurequantum electrodynamical density functional theorysuperconductivity

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PMCPMC11648876

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