{"id":29238,"date":"2016-08-22T19:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/light-and-matter-merge-in-quantum-coupling"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:49:25","slug":"light-and-matter-merge-in-quantum-coupling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/light-and-matter-merge-in-quantum-coupling","title":{"rendered":"Light and matter merge in quantum coupling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/light-and-matter-merge-in-quantum-coupling.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where light and matter intersect, the world illuminates. Where light and matter interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics, according to Rice University scientists.<\/p>\n<p>Rice physicists are closing in on a way to create a new <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/condensed+matter\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">condensed matter<\/a> state in which all the electrons in a material act as one by manipulating them with <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a> and a magnetic field. The effect made possible by a custom-built, finely tuned cavity for terahertz radiation shows one of the strongest light-matter coupling phenomena ever observed.<\/p>\n<p>The work by Rice physicist Junichiro Kono and his colleagues is described in <i>Nature Physics<\/i>. It could help advance technologies like quantum computers and communications by revealing new phenomena to those who study cavity quantum electrodynamics and <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/condensed+matter+physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">condensed matter physics<\/a>, Kono said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-merge-quantum-coupling.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-merge-quantum-coupling.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where light and matter intersect, the world illuminates. Where light and matter interact so strongly that they become one, they illuminate a world of new physics, according to Rice University scientists. Rice physicists are closing in on a way to create a new condensed matter state in which all the electrons in a material act [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238","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=29238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50000,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29238\/revisions\/50000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}