{"id":93903,"date":"2019-07-19T17:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T00:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/majorana-photons-new-super-class-of-photons-can-travel-with-different-wavefronts"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T00:02:24","slug":"majorana-photons-new-super-class-of-photons-can-travel-with-different-wavefronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/majorana-photons-new-super-class-of-photons-can-travel-with-different-wavefronts","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Majorana Photons\u2019: New super-class of photons can travel with different wavefronts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/majorana-photons-new-super-class-of-photons-can-travel-with-different-wavefronts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum and Cr tunable lasers, City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R. Alfano and his research team are claiming another breakthrough with a new super-class of photons dubbed \u201cMajorana photons.\u201d They could lead to enhanced information on quantum-level transition and imaging of the brain and its working.<\/p>\n<p>Alfano\u2019s group based its research on the fact that photons, while possessing salient properties of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polarization\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polarization<\/a>, wavelength, coherence and spatial modes, take on several forms. \u201cPhotons are amazing and are all not the same,\u201d Alfano says.<\/p>\n<p>Their focus \u201cwas to use a special super-form of photons, which process the entanglement twists of both polarizations and the wavefront \u2026 and would propagate deeper in brain tissues, microtubules and neuron cells, giving more fundamental information of the brain than the conventional <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photon<\/a> forms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hailed as a pioneer by Photonics Media for his previous discoveries of supercontinuum and Cr tunable lasers, City College of New York Distinguished Professor of Science and Engineering Robert R. Alfano and his research team are claiming another breakthrough with a new super-class of photons dubbed \u201cMajorana photons.\u201d They could lead to enhanced information on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93903","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}