{"id":121445,"date":"2021-04-11T17:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/light-forms-crystal-like-structure-on-computer-chip"},"modified":"2021-04-11T17:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T00:26:13","slug":"light-forms-crystal-like-structure-on-computer-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/light-forms-crystal-like-structure-on-computer-chip","title":{"rendered":"Light Forms Crystal-Like Structure On Computer Chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-forms-crystal-like-structure-on-computer-chip2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014 essentially this could make endless computer chips from light.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Princeton researchers have managed to cause light to behave like a crystal within a specialized computer chip, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prx\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevX.4.031043\">recent paper<\/a>. This is the first time anyone has accomplished this effect in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so hard: Atoms can easily form solids, liquids, and gasses, because when they come into contact they push and pull on each other. That push and pull forms the underlying structure of all matter. Light particles, or photons, do not typically interact with one another, according to Dr. Andrew Houck, a professor of electrical engineering at Princeton and an author on the study. The trick of this research was forcing them to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe build essentially an artificial atom, using lots of atoms acting in concert,\u201d Houck tells <em>Popular Science<\/em>, \u201cWhat emerges is a quantum mechanical object that [at about half a millimeter] is visible on the classical scale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 essentially this could make endless computer chips from light. Princeton researchers have managed to cause light to behave like a crystal within a specialized computer chip, according to a recent paper. This is the first time anyone has accomplished this effect in a lab. Here\u2019s why it\u2019s so hard: Atoms can easily form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445","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=121445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}