{"id":26929,"date":"2016-06-15T23:49:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T06:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/physicists-have-mixed-matter-and-light-at-room-temperature-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2017-06-04T19:56:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T02:56:02","slug":"physicists-have-mixed-matter-and-light-at-room-temperature-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/physicists-have-mixed-matter-and-light-at-room-temperature-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Physicists have mixed matter and light at room temperature for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-have-mixed-matter-and-light-at-room-temperature-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a lovely demonstration of light\u2019s quantum effects, physicists in the UK have just mixed a molecule with light at room temperature for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p>Light and matter are usually separate, with totally distinct properties, but now scientists have trapped a particle of light \u2014 called a photon \u2014 with a molecule in a tiny, golden cage of mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a big deal, because it creates a whole new way to manipulate the physical and chemical properties of matter, and could change the way we process quantum information.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-mixed-matter-and-light-at-room-temperature-for-the-first-time\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/physicists-have-mixed-matter-and...first-time<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lovely demonstration of light\u2019s quantum effects, physicists in the UK have just mixed a molecule with light at room temperature for the first time ever. Light and matter are usually separate, with totally distinct properties, but now scientists have trapped a particle of light \u2014 called a photon \u2014 with a molecule in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26929","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\/26929","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67190,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26929\/revisions\/67190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}