{"id":216102,"date":"2025-06-17T06:16:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/light-squeezed-out-of-darkness-in-surprising-quantum-simulation"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:16:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:16:47","slug":"light-squeezed-out-of-darkness-in-surprising-quantum-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/light-squeezed-out-of-darkness-in-surprising-quantum-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Light Squeezed Out of Darkness in Surprising Quantum Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-squeezed-out-of-darkness-in-surprising-quantum-simulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A careful alignment of three powerful lasers could generate a mysterious fourth beam of light that is throttled out of the very darkness itself.<\/p>\n<p>What sounds like occult forces at work has been confirmed by a simulation of the kinds of quantum effects we might expect to emerge from a vacuum when ultra-high electromagnetic fields meet.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers from the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Lisbon in Portugal used a semi-classical equation solver to simulate quantum phenomena in real time and in three dimensions, testing predictions on what ought to occur when incredibly intense laser pulses combine in empty space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A careful alignment of three powerful lasers could generate a mysterious fourth beam of light that is throttled out of the very darkness itself. What sounds like occult forces at work has been confirmed by a simulation of the kinds of quantum effects we might expect to emerge from a vacuum when ultra-high electromagnetic fields [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216102","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=216102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}