{"id":244614,"date":"2026-09-29T01:34:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mapping-one-atoms-interaction-with-light-uncovers-an-unbounded-network-of-quantum-states"},"modified":"2026-09-29T01:34:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:34:02","slug":"mapping-one-atoms-interaction-with-light-uncovers-an-unbounded-network-of-quantum-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/mapping-one-atoms-interaction-with-light-uncovers-an-unbounded-network-of-quantum-states","title":{"rendered":"Mapping one atom\u2019s interaction with light uncovers an unbounded network of quantum states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mapping-one-atoms-interaction-with-light-uncovers-an-unbounded-network-of-quantum-states3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new graph-theoretic framework provides a unified description of atom-light interactions across regimes ranging from weak to deep-strong coupling.<\/p>\n<p>A research team comprising professors Sunkyu Yu and Namkyoo Park of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering and professor Xianji Piao of the University of Seoul has discovered that even the interaction between a single atom and light\u2014one of the simplest settings in quantum physics\u2014contains an enormous, intricately connected network.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aee5566\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> was published Sept. 25 in the journal Science Advances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new graph-theoretic framework provides a unified description of atom-light interactions across regimes ranging from weak to deep-strong coupling. A research team comprising professors Sunkyu Yu and Namkyoo Park of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul National University College of Engineering and professor Xianji Piao of the University of Seoul has discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244614","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=244614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}