{"id":166143,"date":"2023-06-21T11:22:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/waves-of-light-can-be-frozen-in-3d-materials-according-to-a-new-simulation"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T16:22:22","slug":"waves-of-light-can-be-frozen-in-3d-materials-according-to-a-new-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/waves-of-light-can-be-frozen-in-3d-materials-according-to-a-new-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Waves of Light Can Be \u2018Frozen\u2019 in 3D Materials, According to a New Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waves-of-light-can-be-frozen-in-3d-materials-according-to-a-new-simulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery on whether light can be effectively trapped in a 3D forest of microscopic particles.<\/p>\n<p>Using a new method for crunching vast sums in a model of particle interactions, a team of physicists in the US and France revealed conditions under which a wave of light can be brought to a standstill by defects in the right kind of material.<\/p>\n<p>Known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anderson_localization\">Anderson localization<\/a>, after US theoretical physicist Philip W. Anderson, electrons can become trapped (localized) in disordered materials with randomly distributed abnormalities. Its proposal in 1958 was a significant moment in contemporary condensed matter physics, applying across quantum as well as classical mechanics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have solved a decades-long mystery on whether light can be effectively trapped in a 3D forest of microscopic particles. Using a new method for crunching vast sums in a model of particle interactions, a team of physicists in the US and France revealed conditions under which a wave of light can be brought to [\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-166143","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\/166143","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=166143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}