{"id":107321,"date":"2020-05-19T15:23:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-use-light-to-accelerate-supercurrents-access-forbidden-light-quantum-world"},"modified":"2020-05-19T15:23:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T22:23:42","slug":"scientists-use-light-to-accelerate-supercurrents-access-forbidden-light-quantum-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/scientists-use-light-to-accelerate-supercurrents-access-forbidden-light-quantum-world","title":{"rendered":"Scientists use light to accelerate supercurrents, access forbidden light, quantum world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-use-light-to-accelerate-supercurrents-access-forbidden-light-quantum-world2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of the quantum world, including forbidden light emissions that one day could be applied to high-speed, quantum computers, communications and other technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists have seen unexpected things in supercurrents\u2014electricity that moves through materials without resistance, usually at super cold temperatures\u2014that break symmetry and are supposed to be forbidden by the conventional laws of physics, said Jigang Wang, a professor of physics and astronomy at Iowa State University, a senior scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Ames Laboratory and the leader of the project.<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s lab has pioneered use of light pulses at terahertz frequencies- trillions of pulses per second\u2014to accelerate electron pairs, known as Cooper pairs, within supercurrents. In this case, the researchers tracked light emitted by the accelerated electrons pairs. What they found were \u201csecond harmonic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+emissions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light emissions<\/a>,\u201d or light at twice the frequency of the incoming light used to accelerate electrons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are using light waves to accelerate supercurrents and access the unique properties of the quantum world, including forbidden light emissions that one day could be applied to high-speed, quantum computers, communications and other technologies. The scientists have seen unexpected things in supercurrents\u2014electricity that moves through materials without resistance, usually at super cold temperatures\u2014that break [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107321","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}