{"id":18203,"date":"2015-10-07T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-topolariton-a-new-half-matter-half-light-particle"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:49","slug":"the-topolariton-a-new-half-matter-half-light-particle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-topolariton-a-new-half-matter-half-light-particle","title":{"rendered":"The topolariton, a new half-matter, half-light particle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-topolariton-a-new-half-matter-half-light-particle.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new type of \u201cquasiparticle\u201d theorized by Caltech\u2019s Gil Refael, a professor of theoretical physics and condensed matter theory, could help improve the efficiency of a wide range of photonic devices\u2014technologies, such as optical amplifiers, solar photovoltaic cells, and even barcode scanners, which create, manipulate, or detect light.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-10-topolariton-half-matter-half-light-particle.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new type of \u201cquasiparticle\u201d theorized by Caltech\u2019s Gil Refael, a professor of theoretical physics and condensed matter theory, could help improve the efficiency of a wide range of photonic devices\u2014technologies, such as optical amplifiers, solar photovoltaic cells, and even barcode scanners, which create, manipulate, or detect light. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions\/69401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}