{"id":182246,"date":"2024-02-08T03:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-photonics-leap-revolutionary-nanocavities-redefine-light-confinement"},"modified":"2024-02-08T03:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:23:11","slug":"quantum-photonics-leap-revolutionary-nanocavities-redefine-light-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/quantum-photonics-leap-revolutionary-nanocavities-redefine-light-confinement","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Photonics Leap: Revolutionary Nanocavities Redefine Light Confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-photonics-leap-revolutionary-nanocavities-redefine-light-confinement2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, from Bar-Ilan University: \u201cWhat started as a chance discovery, may well open the way to new quantum applications, pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines the limits of light confinement. This pioneering work, detailed in a study published today (February 6) in <em>Nature Materials<\/em><em>, <\/em>demonstrates an unconventional method to confine photons, overcoming the traditional limitations in nanophotonics.<\/p>\n<p>Physicists have long been seeking ways to force photons into increasingly small volumes. The natural length scale of the photon is the wavelength and when a photon is forced into a cavity much smaller than the wavelength, it effectively becomes more \u201cconcentrated.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, from Bar-Ilan University: \u201cWhat started as a chance discovery, may well open the way to new quantum applications, pushing the boundaries of what we thought was possible.\u201d In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines [\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-182246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182246","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=182246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}