The new research builds on the discovery in 2010 of a new light source - a single superphoton,
The authors explain that the particles in such a system are already in a quantum mechanical state and can be said to be indistinguishable. They behave like one giant particle.
In their experiment, scientists captured lightparticles in a resonator consisting of two curved mirrors. During their observations, they discovered a phase transition in the system of trapped light particles between the oscillation phase and the damping phase.
The superdamped phase observed by us corresponds to a new state of the light field.
Fakhri Emre Ozturk, first author of the article and graduate student at the Institute of Applied Physics
The results, according to the authors, may in the future be important for the implementation of secure quantum communication, as well as for the search for new states of the light field.
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