{"id":24316,"date":"2016-04-06T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T08:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-discovery-may-allow-us-to-harness-the-power-of-a-photons-spin"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:28:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:28:33","slug":"new-discovery-may-allow-us-to-harness-the-power-of-a-photons-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/new-discovery-may-allow-us-to-harness-the-power-of-a-photons-spin","title":{"rendered":"New Discovery May Allow Us to Harness the Power of a Photon\u2019s Spin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hiX98nsCO9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A strange new property of light, which correlates the spin of a light wave\u2019s electric field with its momentum, could usher in a new age in photonics.<\/p>\n<p>A new discovery links the spin and momentum of light waves, and could mean a major advance in the development of new photonic and spintronic devices.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue University<\/a> have discovered a property of light waves called \u201cspin-momentum locking,\u201d which means that a rotating electric field accompanying light moves in a certain direction according to the photons\u2019 momentum. In other words, light waves spinning counterclockwise move only \u201cforward,\u201d those spinning clockwise move only \u201cbackward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/new-discovery-may-allow-us-harness-power-photons-spin\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/new-discovery-may-allow-us-harness-power-photons-spin\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A strange new property of light, which correlates the spin of a light wave\u2019s electric field with its momentum, could usher in a new age in photonics. A new discovery links the spin and momentum of light waves, and could mean a major advance in the development of new photonic and spintronic devices. Scientists from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42727,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24316\/revisions\/42727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}