{"id":29090,"date":"2016-08-18T21:31:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T04:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-birth-of-quantum-holography-making-holograms-of-single-light-particles-2"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:23:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:23:22","slug":"the-birth-of-quantum-holography-making-holograms-of-single-light-particles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/the-birth-of-quantum-holography-making-holograms-of-single-light-particles-2","title":{"rendered":"The birth of quantum holography\u2014making holograms of single light particles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-birth-of-quantum-holography-making-holograms-of-single-light-particles-2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of physics. However, scientists at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, have successfully applied concepts of classical holography to the world of quantum phenomena. A new measurement technique has enabled them to register the first-ever hologram of a single light particle, thereby shedding new light on the foundations of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, have created the first ever hologram of a single light particle. The spectacular experiment was reported in the prestigious journal <i>Nature Photonics<\/i>.The successful registering of the hologram of a single photon heralds a new era of quantum holography, which offers a whole new perspective on quantum phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe performed a relatively simple experiment to measure and view something incredibly difficult to observe: the shape of wavefronts of a single photon,\u201d says Dr. Radoslaw Chrapkiewicz.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-07-birth-quantum-holographymaking-holograms-particles.html#nRlv\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;07-birth-quantum-holographymak....html#nRlv<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of physics. However, scientists at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, have successfully applied concepts of classical holography to the world of quantum phenomena. A new measurement technique has enabled them to register the first-ever [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29090","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\/29090","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=29090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66524,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29090\/revisions\/66524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}