{"id":122517,"date":"2021-05-12T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/physicists-unveil-the-condensation-of-liquid-light-in-a-semiconductor-one-atom-thick"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:25:24","slug":"physicists-unveil-the-condensation-of-liquid-light-in-a-semiconductor-one-atom-thick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/physicists-unveil-the-condensation-of-liquid-light-in-a-semiconductor-one-atom-thick","title":{"rendered":"Physicists unveil the condensation of liquid light in a semiconductor one-atom-thick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-unveil-the-condensation-of-liquid-light-in-a-semiconductor-one-atom-thick2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of physicists has shown experimentally for the first time how a Bose-Einstein condensate \u2014 tens of thousands of quanta of \u2018liquid light\u2019 \u2014 is formed in the thinnest monatomic film of a semiconductor crystal. The team includes the head of the Spin Optics Laboratory at St Petersburg University, Professor Alexey Kavokin. This discovery will help create new types of lasers capable of producing qubits \u2014 the main integral parts of quantum computers of the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of physicists has shown experimentally for the first time how a Bose-Einstein condensate \u2014 tens of thousands of quanta of \u2018liquid light\u2019 \u2014 is formed in the thinnest monatomic film of a semiconductor crystal. The team includes the head of the Spin Optics Laboratory at St Petersburg University, Professor Alexey Kavokin. This [\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-122517","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\/122517","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=122517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}