{"id":114357,"date":"2020-10-13T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/physicists-just-stored-and-transported-light-itself"},"modified":"2020-10-13T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T23:24:39","slug":"physicists-just-stored-and-transported-light-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/physicists-just-stored-and-transported-light-itself","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Stored and Transported Light Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-stored-and-transported-light-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of German physicists managed to pack up light \u2014 and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away, without altering it in the process.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a simple concept, but extremely difficult to actually pull off. To do it, the team from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) had to cool down rubidium-87 atoms to almost absolute zero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stored the light by putting it in a suitcase so to speak, only that in our case the suitcase was made of a cloud of cold atoms,\u201d Patrick Windpassinger, professor at JGU, research lead, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-physicists-successfully.html\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe moved this suitcase over a short distance and then took the light out again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of German physicists managed to pack up light \u2014 and unpack it 1.2 millimeters away, without altering it in the process. It\u2019s a simple concept, but extremely difficult to actually pull off. To do it, the team from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) had to cool down rubidium-87 atoms to almost absolute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114357","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=114357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}