{"id":30654,"date":"2016-09-30T21:17:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T04:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/modern-jedi-physicists-freeze-light-in-mid-air-bringing-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:12:22","slug":"modern-jedi-physicists-freeze-light-in-mid-air-bringing-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/modern-jedi-physicists-freeze-light-in-mid-air-bringing-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Modern Jedi Physicists Freeze Light In Mid-Air: Bringing Quantum Computers Closer To Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/modern-jedi-physicists-freeze-light-in-mid-air-bringing-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the light is trapped \u2014 there are photons circulating around the atoms,\u201d Everett says. \u201cThe atoms absorbed some of the trapped light, but a substantial proportion of the photons were frozen inside the atomic cloud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Co-researcher Geoff Campbell from ANU explained that while photons commonly pass by each other at the speed of light without any interactions, atoms interact with each other more freely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCorralling a crowd of photons in a cloud of ultra-cold atoms creates more opportunities for them to interact,\u201d Campbell says.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itechpost.com\/articles\/34939\/20160930\/modern-jedi-physicists-freeze-light-in-mid-air-bringing-quantum-computers-closer-to-reality.htm\">http:\/\/www.itechpost.com\/articles\/34939\/20160930\/modern-jedi...eality.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clear that the light is trapped \u2014 there are photons circulating around the atoms,\u201d Everett says. \u201cThe atoms absorbed some of the trapped light, but a substantial proportion of the photons were frozen inside the atomic cloud.\u201d Co-researcher Geoff Campbell from ANU explained that while photons commonly pass by each other at the speed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654","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=30654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66114,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30654\/revisions\/66114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}