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Sat June 13, 2020
‘Photon crystals’ could be made using Rydberg atoms
Physicists in the US have come up with a way of making photons repel each other by sending them through an ultracold atomic gas. This astonishing feat could lead to the creation of “photon crystals” and exotic quantum states such as a Mott insulator.
Image caption: In vacuum optical system for photon-photon interactions.
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