{"id":28701,"date":"2016-08-06T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/new-form-of-light-could-make-study-of-quantum-phenomena-easier"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:27:13","slug":"new-form-of-light-could-make-study-of-quantum-phenomena-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/new-form-of-light-could-make-study-of-quantum-phenomena-easier","title":{"rendered":"New Form Of Light Could Make Study Of Quantum Phenomena Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-form-of-light-could-make-study-of-quantum-phenomena-easier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a development that could greatly help the study of quantum phenomena, scientists have created a theoretical model for a new form of light that combines the properties of photons and electrons. If turned into reality, the new light form could also be used to make electrical circuits which at present use electrons for conduction.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Imperial College London published a study in the journal Nature Communications on Friday that shows \u201cit is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both,\u201d according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/newssummary\/news_4-8-2016-11-5-15\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> issued by the college.<\/p>\n<p>Light, which is made up of photons, usually interacts with a large number of electrons on the surface of whatever material it comes in contact with. For the study, researchers from Imperial used \u201ca recently discovered class of materials known as topological inhibitors.\u201d Combining that with \u201ctheoretical physics to model the behavior of light,\u201d they found that light could interact with only one electron on the surface.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/new-form-light-could-make-study-quantum-phenomena-easier-2398363\">http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/new-form-light-could-make-study-quant...er-2398363<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a development that could greatly help the study of quantum phenomena, scientists have created a theoretical model for a new form of light that combines the properties of photons and electrons. If turned into reality, the new light form could also be used to make electrical circuits which at present use electrons for conduction. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28701","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66658,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28701\/revisions\/66658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}