{"id":189404,"date":"2024-05-14T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-create-an-optical-conveyor-belt-for-quasiparticles"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:23:00","slug":"scientists-create-an-optical-conveyor-belt-for-quasiparticles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/scientists-create-an-optical-conveyor-belt-for-quasiparticles","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create an \u2018optical conveyor belt\u2019 for quasiparticles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-an-optical-conveyor-belt-for-quasiparticles3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An \u201coptical conveyor belt\u201d that can move polaritons\u2014a type of light-matter hybrid particle\u2014in semiconductor-based microcavities.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>This asymmetric response of the confined polaritons breaks <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/time-reversal+symmetry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">time-reversal symmetry<\/a>, driving non-reciprocity and the formation of a topological <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/band+structure\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">band structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Photonic states with topological properties can be used in advanced opto-electronic devices where topology might greatly improve the performance of optical devices, circuits, and networks, such as by reducing noise and lasing threshold powers, and dissipationless optical waveguiding.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the simplicity and robustness of our technique opens new opportunities for the development of topological photonic devices with applications in quantum metrology and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information<\/a>, concludes Fraser.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An \u201coptical conveyor belt\u201d that can move polaritons\u2014a type of light-matter hybrid particle\u2014in semiconductor-based microcavities. This asymmetric response of the confined polaritons breaks time-reversal symmetry, driving non-reciprocity and the formation of a topological band structure. Photonic states with topological properties can be used in advanced opto-electronic devices where topology might greatly improve the performance of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189404","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\/189404","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}