{"id":163198,"date":"2023-05-02T07:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-ghosts-atoms-become-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light"},"modified":"2023-05-02T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T12:22:22","slug":"quantum-ghosts-atoms-become-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-ghosts-atoms-become-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Ghosts: Atoms Become Transparent to Certain Frequencies of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-ghosts-atoms-become-transparent-to-certain-frequencies-of-light3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers at Caltech have discovered a new phenomenon, \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT), where light passes unimpeded through groups of atoms at certain frequencies. This finding could potentially improve quantum memory systems.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies.<\/p>\n<p>CIT was discovered by confining ytterbium atoms inside an optical cavity\u2014essentially, a tiny box for light\u2014and blasting them with a laser. Although the laser\u2019s light will bounce off the atoms up to a point, as the frequency of the light is adjusted, a transparency window appears in which the light simply passes through the cavity unimpeded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Caltech have discovered a new phenomenon, \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT), where light passes unimpeded through groups of atoms at certain frequencies. This finding could potentially improve quantum memory systems. A newly discovered phenomenon dubbed \u201ccollectively induced transparency\u201d (CIT) causes groups of atoms to abruptly stop reflecting light at specific frequencies. CIT was discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163198","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=163198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}