{"id":124790,"date":"2021-07-11T00:22:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/giant-quantum-tornados-in-hybrid-light-matter-system-reveal-complex-physical-phenomena"},"modified":"2021-07-11T00:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:22:26","slug":"giant-quantum-tornados-in-hybrid-light-matter-system-reveal-complex-physical-phenomena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/giant-quantum-tornados-in-hybrid-light-matter-system-reveal-complex-physical-phenomena","title":{"rendered":"Giant Quantum Tornados in Hybrid Light-Matter System Reveal Complex Physical Phenomena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-quantum-tornados-in-hybrid-light-matter-system-reveal-complex-physical-phenomena.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from the UK have managed to create a stable giant vortex in interacting polariton condensates, addressing a known challenge in quantized fluid dynamics. The findings open possibilities in creating uniquely structured coherent light sources and exploring many-body physics under unique extreme conditions. The paper was published in the journal <em>Nature Communications<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fluid dynamics, a vortex is a region where a fluid revolves around a point (2D) or a line (3D); you\u2019ve clearly seen one in your sink or may have felt one in the form of turbulence while flying. The quantum world also has vortices: the flow of a quantum fluid can create a zone where the particles revolve persistently around some point. The prototypical signature of such quantum vortices is their singular phase at the core of the vortex.<\/p>\n<p>Skoltech Professors Natalia Berloff and Pavlos Lagoudakis and colleagues studied vortices created by polaritons \u2013 odd hybrid quantum particles that are half-light (photon) and half-matter (electrons) \u2013 forming a quantum fluid under the right conditions. They were looking for a way to create vortices in these polariton fluids with high values of angular momentum (i.e., getting them to rotate fast). These vortices, also known as <em>giant vortices<\/em>, are generally very hard to obtain as they tend to break apart into many smaller vortices with low angular momentum in other systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Skoltech and their colleagues from the UK have managed to create a stable giant vortex in interacting polariton condensates, addressing a known challenge in quantized fluid dynamics. The findings open possibilities in creating uniquely structured coherent light sources and exploring many-body physics under unique extreme conditions. The paper was published in the journal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124790","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=124790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}