{"id":234200,"date":"2026-03-28T03:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/physicists-create-optical-phenomenon-inspired-by-the-quantum-hall-and-spin-hall-effects"},"modified":"2026-03-28T03:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:16:15","slug":"physicists-create-optical-phenomenon-inspired-by-the-quantum-hall-and-spin-hall-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/physicists-create-optical-phenomenon-inspired-by-the-quantum-hall-and-spin-hall-effects","title":{"rendered":"Physicists create optical phenomenon inspired by the quantum Hall and spin Hall effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-create-optical-phenomenon-inspired-by-the-quantum-hall-and-spin-hall-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the W\u00fcrzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing targeted material design. The team led by Professor Sebastian Klembt generated this optical quantum phenomenon by using polaritons\u2014hybrid light-matter particles. This advance paves the way for optical information processing. The results have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-026-68530-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1980, Nobel laureate Klaus von Klitzing, then working in W\u00fcrzburg, first demonstrated topological charge transport with the quantum Hall effect.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Professor Laurens Molenkamp at JMU W\u00fcrzburg provided the world\u2019s first experimental evidence of the quantum spin Hall effect as an intrinsic property of a topological insulator. Both phenomena protect electrons from scattering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the W\u00fcrzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing targeted material design. The team led by Professor Sebastian Klembt generated this optical quantum phenomenon by using polaritons\u2014hybrid light-matter particles. This advance paves the way [\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-234200","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\/234200","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=234200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}