{"id":117577,"date":"2020-12-23T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/experiment-takes-snapshots-of-light-stops-light-uses-light-to-change-properties-of-matter"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T06:22:16","slug":"experiment-takes-snapshots-of-light-stops-light-uses-light-to-change-properties-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/experiment-takes-snapshots-of-light-stops-light-uses-light-to-change-properties-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Experiment takes \u2018snapshots\u2019 of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experiment-takes-snapshots-of-light-stops-light-uses-light-to-change-properties-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Light travels at a speed of about 300, 000, 000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy examined ideas surrounding the origins of light, taking snapshots of light, stopping light and using it to change properties of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Petek worked with students and collaborators Prof. Chen-Bin (Robin) Huang of the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, and Atsushi Kubo of the Tsukuba University of Japan on the experiments. Their findings were reported in the paper, \u201cPlasmonic topological quasiparticle on the nanometre and femtosecond scales,\u201d which was published in the Dec. 24 issue of <i>Nature<\/i> magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Petek credited graduate student Yanan Dai for his foresight and work in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Light travels at a speed of about 300, 000, 000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy examined ideas surrounding the origins of light, taking snapshots of light, stopping light and using it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117577","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}