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Posted on 11/03/2014 5:56:03 PM PST by BenLurkin
Photons generally do not interact with each other in free space but instead one passes through the other with no effect to either one. Vienna University of Technology researchers have made a significant and groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum mechanics. A team of researchers has developed some unique hardware, which enable photons to interact. This hardware is composed of micro-thin fiber made of glass, which in turn attached to a device called a resonator.
The photon particle light can enter the resonator, moves in a circular fashion and then returns to the glass fiber. This change in pathways causes a phase inversion of 180 degrees. The researchers then attached a rubidium atom to the resonator preventing light form [sic] entering the resonator thereby preventing the oscillation phase of the proton from changing.
“It is like a pendulum, which should actually swing to the left, but due to coupling with a second pendulum, it swings to the right. There cannot be more extreme change in the pendulum’s condition”, said Professor Arno Rauschenbeutel, of Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics, TU Wien.
(Excerpt) Read more at piercepioneer.com ...
Analysis Spock?
So they managed to get light to swing both ways. Wonderful, now it will want to marry.
Or did I miss something? :)
Sounds about right.
Are these AC or DC photons?
Sounds like they’re crossing the beams - isn’t that bad?
I about wet myself laughing at that one.
Or AC/DC Photons?
Isn’t this how a light saber works?
Right now all chips are limited by the speed of electrons.
This breakthrough means the speed of light would be limit.
So, is this going to be the power source for the flying car?
I think in principle the ideas are of the same kind that one finds in solid state theory of cavities and defects and so on, but here they are striving to get control over things so they can build lattices of interactions on a quantum level.
To what end, I can't really say, because to me the whole idea of gaining control over the quantum realm is fundamentally hopeless, since it is axiomatic in Quantum Theory itself that this will not happen, as expressed by Quantum Uncertainty.
But what do I know?
So, with all due respect, this isn’t about two photons interacting, this is about two photons and an atom interacting. And no one has ever claimed that was difficult, let alone impossible.
Thanks for the article. This is an interesting development and holds some potentially exciting applications.
It’s rare, but I try when I can LOL
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