{"id":113031,"date":"2020-09-15T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-trick-photons-into-behaving-like-electrons-using-a-synthetic-magnetic-field"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:26:11","slug":"physicists-trick-photons-into-behaving-like-electrons-using-a-synthetic-magnetic-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicists-trick-photons-into-behaving-like-electrons-using-a-synthetic-magnetic-field","title":{"rendered":"Physicists \u2018trick\u2019 photons into behaving like electrons using a \u2018synthetic\u2019 magnetic field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-trick-photons-into-behaving-like-electrons-using-a-synthetic-magnetic-field3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a \u2018synthetic\u2019 Lorentz force\u2014which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis.<\/p>\n<p>A team of theoretical physicists from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to create tuneable artificial magnetic fields, which enable photons to mimic the dynamics of charged particles in real magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>The team believe the new research, published in leading journal <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, could have important implications for future photonic devices as it provides a novel way of manipulating light below the diffraction limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered an elegant way of manipulating light using a \u2018synthetic\u2019 Lorentz force\u2014which in nature is responsible for many fascinating phenomena including the Aurora Borealis. A team of theoretical physicists from the University of Exeter has pioneered a new technique to create tuneable artificial magnetic fields, which enable photons to mimic the dynamics of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113031","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=113031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}