{"id":188039,"date":"2024-04-24T16:26:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/making-light-feel-a-magnetic-field-like-an-electron-would"},"modified":"2024-04-24T16:26:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:26:40","slug":"making-light-feel-a-magnetic-field-like-an-electron-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/making-light-feel-a-magnetic-field-like-an-electron-would","title":{"rendered":"Making light \u2018feel\u2019 a magnetic field like an electron would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-light-feel-a-magnetic-field-like-an-electron-would3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike electrons, particles of light are uncharged, so they do not respond to magnetic fields. Despite this, researchers have now experimentally made light effectively \u201cfeel\u201d a magnetic field within a complicated structure called a photonic crystal, which is made of silicon and glass.<\/p>\n<p>Within the crystal, the light spins in circles and the researchers observed, for the first time, that it forms discrete energy bands called Landau levels, which parallels a well-known phenomenon seen in electrons.<\/p>\n<p>This finding could point to new ways to increase the interaction of light with matter, an advance that has the potential to improve photonic technologies, like very small lasers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike electrons, particles of light are uncharged, so they do not respond to magnetic fields. Despite this, researchers have now experimentally made light effectively \u201cfeel\u201d a magnetic field within a complicated structure called a photonic crystal, which is made of silicon and glass. Within the crystal, the light spins in circles and the researchers observed, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188039","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}