{"id":155504,"date":"2023-01-14T18:22:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T00:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-make-a-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-at-room-temperature"},"modified":"2023-01-14T18:22:58","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T00:22:58","slug":"scientists-make-a-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-at-room-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-make-a-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-at-room-temperature","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make a quantum harmonic oscillator at room temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-make-a-quantum-harmonic-oscillator-at-room-temperature2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quantum harmonic oscillator\u2014a structure that can control the location and energy of quantum particles that could, in the future, be used to develop new technologies including OLEDs and miniature lasers\u2014has been made at room temperature by researchers led by the University of St Andrews.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted in collaboration with scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i> recently, used an <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/organic+semiconductor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">organic semiconductor<\/a> to produce polaritons, which show quantum states even at room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>Polaritons are quantum mixtures of light and matter that are made by combining excitations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/semiconductor+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor material<\/a> with photons, the fundamental particles that form light. To create polaritons, the researchers trapped light in a thin layer of an organic semiconductor (the kind of light-emitting material used in OLED smartphone displays) 100 times thinner than a single human hair, sandwiched between two highly reflective mirrors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quantum harmonic oscillator\u2014a structure that can control the location and energy of quantum particles that could, in the future, be used to develop new technologies including OLEDs and miniature lasers\u2014has been made at room temperature by researchers led by the University of St Andrews. The research, conducted in collaboration with scientists at Nanyang Technological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155504","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}