{"id":191139,"date":"2024-06-13T06:23:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T11:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/quantum-magic-how-super-photons-are-shaping-the-future-of-physics"},"modified":"2024-06-13T06:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T11:23:21","slug":"quantum-magic-how-super-photons-are-shaping-the-future-of-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/quantum-magic-how-super-photons-are-shaping-the-future-of-physics","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Magic: How \u201cSuper Photons\u201d Are Shaping the Future of Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-magic-how-super-photons-are-shaping-the-future-of-physics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at the University of Bonn have demonstrated that super photons, or photon Bose-Einstein condensates, conform to fundamental physics theorems, enabling insights into properties that are often difficult to observe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under suitable conditions, thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of \u201csuper photon.\u201d Physicists call such a state a photon Bose-Einstein condensate. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now shown that this exotic quantum state obeys a fundamental theorem of physics. This finding now allows one to measure properties of photon Bose-Einstein condensates which are usually difficult to access. The study was published on June 3 in the journal <em> <i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If many atoms are cooled to a very low temperature confined in a small volume, they can become indistinguishable and behave like a single \u201csuper particle.\u201d Physicists also call this a Bose-Einstein condensate or quantum gas. Photons condense based on a similar principle and can be cooled using dye molecules. These molecules act like small refrigerators and swallow the \u201chot\u201d light particles before spitting them out again at the right temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Bonn have demonstrated that super photons, or photon Bose-Einstein condensates, conform to fundamental physics theorems, enabling insights into properties that are often difficult to observe. Under suitable conditions, thousands of particles of light can merge into a type of \u201csuper photon.\u201d Physicists call such a state a photon Bose-Einstein condensate. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191139","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\/191139","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=191139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}