{"id":189683,"date":"2024-05-19T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T06:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/intense-quantum-light-generates-weird-electron-behavior"},"modified":"2024-05-19T01:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T06:22:31","slug":"intense-quantum-light-generates-weird-electron-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/intense-quantum-light-generates-weird-electron-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Intense quantum light generates \u2018weird\u2019 electron behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/intense-quantum-light-generates-weird-electron-behavior2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photon-number distributions of various light sources have been studied extensively, but little is known about the statistical distribution of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/massless-dirac-electrons-seen-moving-in-four-dimensions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electrons<\/a> emitted under the effect of intense quantum light.<\/p>\n<p>However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (<a href=\"https:\/\/mpl.mpg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MPL<\/a>) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fau.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAU<\/a>) have made a discovery that highlights this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Published in the journal <em>Nature Physics<\/em>, the study led by Prof. Maria Chekhova at MPL and Prof. Peter Hommelhoff at FAU reveals extreme and highly unusual statistical events in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/no-electron-dancing-allowed-new-molecular-design-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electron-number<\/a> distributions obtained when nanometer-sized metal needle tips are illuminated with ultrashort pulses of bright quantum light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photon-number distributions of various light sources have been studied extensively, but little is known about the statistical distribution of electrons emitted under the effect of intense quantum light. However, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) and Friedrich-Alexander-Universit\u00e4t Erlangen-N\u00fcrnberg (FAU) have made a discovery that highlights this phenomenon. Published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189683","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}