Photon interaction breakthrough

piercepioneer.com ^ | 11-3-14 | Deborah Grace

[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.

[SunkenCiv]

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[BroJoeK]

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[Hegewisch Dupa]

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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. - Shouldn't that be "photon"? Article would be more convincing if it didn't require sic-ing twice in the same sentence.

[reed13k]

LOL - excellent

[DiogenesLamp]

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.

Thought you might find this theory interesting.

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.041013

[dr_lew]

Thanks for the link, but I am out of sympathy with such projects.

I feel ones time might be more fruitfully spent perusing Herzberg, Atomic Spectra and Atomic Structure (1937)

[dr_lew]

On this election night, I’m feeling really cranked on about QM. I would just like to comment on the singlet and triplet spectroscopic states as per Herzberg, pg.75.

Traditionally, these are explained as spin 1/2 electrons being aligned or anti-aligned, to form spin 1 or spin 0 states, but this heuristic doesn’t really wash.

There are 2 X 2 = 4 states of the two electrons, represented as |++> , |+-> , |-+> , |—> in Dirac’s “bra - ket” notation, named for the inner product “bracket” notation, e.g. <+-|++> = 0 .

The “bra” is the dual of the “ket”, and their inner product represents a probability of finding the system in both states simultaneously. ( The ket is, I believe, the punning basis for Schroedinger’s cat. )

But there are two anti-aligned states, and they resolve into the triplet and the singlet thus:

triplet: |++> , |+-> + |+-> , |—>
singlet: |+-> - |-+>

So, there are TWO anti-aligned states: the spin 1 state with z-component 0, and the spin 0 state.

This defies heuristic explanation, except that the singlet is antisymmetric under exchange, and the Lz=0 triplet state is symmetric. It all works out beautifully. Learn to love it.

This is almost literally, the ABCs or 1+1=2, of atomic QM. It stands as rock.