{"id":233120,"date":"2026-03-12T03:30:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/acoustic-driving-enables-controlled-condensation-of-light-and-matter-on-chip"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T08:30:36","slug":"acoustic-driving-enables-controlled-condensation-of-light-and-matter-on-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/acoustic-driving-enables-controlled-condensation-of-light-and-matter-on-chip","title":{"rendered":"Acoustic driving enables controlled condensation of light and matter on chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/acoustic-driving-enables-controlled-condensation-of-light-and-matter-on-chip.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by Alexander Kuznetsov at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in Berlin has demonstrated a fundamentally new way to control the condensation of hybrid light-matter particles. Using coherent acoustic driving to dynamically reshape the energy landscape of a semiconductor microcavity, the researchers achieved deterministic steering of a macroscopic quantum state into its lowest energy configuration.<\/p>\n<p>The results, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41566-026-01855-w\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>, establish a strategy for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-interfaces-gateway-dimensional-quantum-optics.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">engineering nonequilibrium quantum states<\/a> and open prospects for ultrafast, tunable photonic technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In collaboration with long-term partners from the National Scientific and Technical Research Council CONICET and the Bariloche Atomic Center and Balseiro Institute in Argentina, the team experimentally realized a universal scheme for selectively transferring populations within a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-05-scheme-qubit-multilevel.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">multilevel quantum system<\/a> using strong time periodic modulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by Alexander Kuznetsov at the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics (PDI) in Berlin has demonstrated a fundamentally new way to control the condensation of hybrid light-matter particles. Using coherent acoustic driving to dynamically reshape the energy landscape of a semiconductor microcavity, the researchers achieved deterministic steering of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233120","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=233120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}