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Hard light for quantum computers

15.09.2014

A group of scientists from the USA and Switzerland managed to demonstrate the corpuscular properties of light. "Solid" light, which researchers observed in a laboratory in the United States, opens up great opportunities for research in the field of quantum optics, as well as physical kinetics.

According to the researchers, they managed to create an installation in which they observed the interaction of two photons. In this case, the light behaved like a particle.

The installation uses a superconducting material and wire. The material contains about 100 billion atoms, which are in a special quantum state. This state allows them to act as one particle.

Such an artificial "atom" was placed close to a superconducting wire containing photons. Scientists have been able to observe corpuscular properties of light by confusing the atom and photons.

The particles of light as a result began to exhibit the properties of the atom. It is precisely this behavior of quantum particles that allowed researchers to speak of "solid" light. In the future, scientists plan to use it to study superfluidity and apply it in quantum computers.

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