Physicists Zhuoran Geng and Ilari Maasilta have demonstrated that sound can travel through a perfect vacuum under specific conditions. Using two piezoelectric materials, which convert movements into voltages, they found that sound can ‘tunnel’ across a vacuum if the gap between the materials is smaller than the sound’s wavelength. This discovery could have applications in quantum information science, microelectromechanical components, and heat control.
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