Andrey Baydin

Vacuum is not emptiness, but an invisible fabric of fleeting particles of light. By placing a material inside a microresonator, we 'wrap' it in this fabric, and its properties change without external influence. This is the path to new electronics and energy technology running on emptiness.

Scientists have created a detector that catches axions—candidates for dark matter. The device, made of layered material in a magnetic field, turns axions into light particles. Resonance, like that of a musical instrument, amplifies the faint signal, and tilting instead of moving parts lets you tune

A thin superconducting film was placed in a cavity that traps invisible light. Even with no light, the vacuum's energy ripples changed the material's properties: the number of current-carrying electron pairs dropped by 13%, and the energy to break them decreased. This demonstrates vacuum sculpting—e

Normally, electrons and photons cannot spontaneously organize. But if a thin layer of electrons is subjected to a pulsing magnetic field, they start to 'dance' in resonance with light inside a special cavity. A new phase emerges where particles and radiation merge into one, paving the way for lossle