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Making non-magnetic photons feel a taste for magnetism

Light consists of chargeless particles called photons. While electrons, being charged, get deflected into curved paths when placed in a magnetic field, the chargeless photons do not feel a real magnetic field the same way. Devising an “artificial” or “fictitious” magnetic field for photons would... click to read more

Avik Dutt | Postdoctoral Scholar at Ginzton Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Shanhui Fan | Professor at Ginzton Laboratory and Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

optics

magnetism

topology

quantum Hall effect

photonics

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Oct 19, 2020

Silencing a quantum drum

To a classical physicist, there is no fundamental limit to how well you can measure something. A classical object, for example, always exists in a well-defined position; if you want to know that position with better accuracy, you simply build a better microscope. The story... click to read more

David Mason | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Massimiliano Rossi | PhD student at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Albert Schliesser | Professor at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

optomechanics

quantum mechanics

quantum physics

optics

Reading time 4 min

published on Feb 27, 2019