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World First: Physicists Create a Supersolid Out of Light
At first, the photons settle into a state with zero momentum, but as this state 'fills up', pairs of photons begin to spill ...
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Scientists turn light into a 'supersolid' for the 1st time ever: What that means, and why it matters
For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both ...
World's First 'Supersolid' Created From Light: A Groundbreaking Discovery
Scientists have turned light into a "supersolid" for the first time, marking a groundbreaking achievement in physics that ...
Scientists Have Turned Light Into a Supersolid—Here's Why That's a Big Deal
Scientists have succeeded in making light behave like a "supersolid" for the first time—a breakthrough that could improve our ...
A New Supersolid Born From Light Pushes the Limits of Physics
With properties of a superfluid but with a crystalline structure, supersolids have previously only been observed in ultracold ...
Light Frozen Like A Solid? Scientists Achieve Quantum Milestone
Scientists have successfully "frozen" light, demonstrating that it can exist as a supersolid—a rare state of matter combining ...
Scientists manage to freeze light, convert it into a solid: Here's how they did it
New research reveals light can behave as a supersolid, paving the way for advancements in quantum computing and optical ...
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Scientists Just Turned Light Into a ‘Supersolid’: Both Solid and Liquid at The Same Time
Light was turned into a quasiparticle that simultaneously behaved like a crystal and wave.
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Light has been transformed into a 'supersolid' for the first time
Supersolids are strange materials that behave like both a solid and a fluid due to quantum effects – and now researchers have ...
Scientists freeze light: Researchers discover a rare state of matter where it flows like liquid but holds shape like a solid
A team of Italian scientists has successfully made light behave like a supersolid for the first time. Published in Nature ...
Laser light made into a supersolid for the first time
A small international team of nanotechnologists, engineers and physicists has developed a way to force laser light into becoming a supersolid. Their paper is published in the journal Nature. The ...