{"id":198346,"date":"2024-10-26T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-use-magnetic-fields-to-freeze-light-in-its-tracks"},"modified":"2024-10-26T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T19:23:49","slug":"researchers-use-magnetic-fields-to-freeze-light-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/researchers-use-magnetic-fields-to-freeze-light-in-its-tracks","title":{"rendered":"Researchers use magnetic fields to freeze light in its tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-use-magnetic-fields-to-freeze-light-in-its-tracks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This finding, achieved independently by a team at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psu.edu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania State University<\/a> published in the same journal, holds immense potential for the development of nanophotonic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Manipulating the flow of light in materials at small scales is crucial for creating efficient nanophotonic chips, the building blocks for future optical devices. In the realm of electronics, scientists can control the movement of electrons using magnetic fields.<\/p>\n<p>The Lorentz force, exerted by the magnetic field, dictates the electron\u2019s trajectory. However, this approach is inapplicable to photons \u2013 the fundamental particles of light \u2013 as they lack an electrical charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This finding, achieved independently by a team at Pennsylvania State University published in the same journal, holds immense potential for the development of nanophotonic devices. Manipulating the flow of light in materials at small scales is crucial for creating efficient nanophotonic chips, the building blocks for future optical devices. In the realm of electronics, scientists [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198346","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}