{"id":160457,"date":"2023-03-16T18:24:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/quantum-light-could-probe-chemical-reactions-in-real-time"},"modified":"2023-03-16T18:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T23:24:21","slug":"quantum-light-could-probe-chemical-reactions-in-real-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/quantum-light-could-probe-chemical-reactions-in-real-time","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Light Could Probe Chemical Reactions in Real Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-light-could-probe-chemical-reactions-in-real-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For their new study, the researchers aimed to understand how quantum correlations inside a source material, be it a gas or a mineral, would impact the quantum properties of the light bursts coming out, if at all. \u201cHigh harmonic generation is a very important area. And still, until recently, it was described by a classical picture of light,\u201d Kaminer says.<\/p>\n<p>In quantum mechanics, figuring out what\u2019s going on with more than a few particles at the same time is notoriously difficult. Kaminer and Alexey Gorlach, a graduate student in his lab, used their COVID-imposed isolation to try to make progress on a fully quantum description of light emitted in high harmonics. \u201cIt\u2019s really crazy; Alexey built a super complex mathematical description on a scale that we\u2019ve never had before,\u201d Kaminer says.<\/p>\n<p>Next, to fully incorporate the quantum properties of the material used to generate this light, Kaminer and Gorlach teamed up with Andrea Pizzi, then a graduate student at the University of Cambridge and now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For their new study, the researchers aimed to understand how quantum correlations inside a source material, be it a gas or a mineral, would impact the quantum properties of the light bursts coming out, if at all. \u201cHigh harmonic generation is a very important area. And still, until recently, it was described by a classical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160457","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}