{"id":121229,"date":"2021-04-04T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-new-state-of-light-physicists-observe-new-phase-in-bose-einstein-condensate-of-light-particles"},"modified":"2021-04-04T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:22:24","slug":"a-new-state-of-light-physicists-observe-new-phase-in-bose-einstein-condensate-of-light-particles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/a-new-state-of-light-physicists-observe-new-phase-in-bose-einstein-condensate-of-light-particles","title":{"rendered":"A New State of Light: Physicists Observe New Phase in Bose-Einstein Condensate of Light Particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-state-of-light-physicists-observe-new-phase-in-bose-einstein-condensate-of-light-particles.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A single \u201csuper photon\u201d made up of many thousands of individual light particles: About ten years ago, researchers at the University of Bonn produced such an extreme aggregate state for the first time and presented a completely new light source. The state is called optical Bose-Einstein condensate and has captivated many physicists ever since, because this exotic world of light particles is home to its very own physical phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers led by Prof. Dr. Martin Weitz, who discovered the super photon, and theoretical physicist Prof. Dr. Johann Kroha have returned from their latest \u201cexpedition\u201d into the quantum world with a very special observation. They report of a new, previously unknown phase transition in the optical Bose-Einstein condensate. This is a so-called overdamped phase. The results may in the long term be relevant for encrypted quantum communication. The study has been published in the journal <em>Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A single \u201csuper photon\u201d made up of many thousands of individual light particles: About ten years ago, researchers at the University of Bonn produced such an extreme aggregate state for the first time and presented a completely new light source. The state is called optical Bose-Einstein condensate and has captivated many physicists ever since, because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121229","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}