{"id":163653,"date":"2023-05-11T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-fluids-of-light-come-into-sharper-view"},"modified":"2023-05-11T00:23:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T05:23:06","slug":"quantum-fluids-of-light-come-into-sharper-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/quantum-fluids-of-light-come-into-sharper-view","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Fluids of Light Come into Sharper View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-fluids-of-light-come-into-sharper-view.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experiments probing quasiparticles in semiconductor microcavities offer unprecedented insights into the dynamics of quantum fluids of light.<\/p>\n<p>Superfluidity [1, 2], the ability of a fluid to flow without friction, isn\u2019t restricted to systems described by hydrodynamics. Over a decade ago, optics researchers started to take an interest in superfluids and other quantum fluids [3], driven by the realization that light propagating in a nonlinear medium can exhibit quantum hydrodynamics features [4]. Two platforms emerged for the study of these \u201cfluids of light\u201d: semiconductor microcavities in which photons are confined [5] and propagating geometries in which photons travel in a bulk medium [6\u20138]. Both configurations allow photons to acquire an effective mass and experience an effective mutual interaction\u2014properties that can lead them to collectively behave as a quantum fluid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiments probing quasiparticles in semiconductor microcavities offer unprecedented insights into the dynamics of quantum fluids of light. Superfluidity [1, 2], the ability of a fluid to flow without friction, isn\u2019t restricted to systems described by hydrodynamics. Over a decade ago, optics researchers started to take an interest in superfluids and other quantum fluids [3], driven [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163653","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}