This is excellent. I have
thought this may be plausible and now it is proven. This also shows us the royal road to
controlled nuclear fission and fusion.
The correct photon is able to alter a particle and hijack it into a
reaction. This explains much of our
empirical results from stumbling around trying to get lucky with interesting
solids.
Photons are naturally captured by particles within a natural stability
range and this alters the inherent characteristics. We may now learn how to predict these changes. We are also getting much better at the
empirical side of the problem.
Perhaps someday we will be able to key in particle decay on demand and
particle assemblage inside a crystal. As I have said, I have suspected as much
may be possible and this is beginning to show the way.
Controlling quantum
tunneling with light
by Staff Writers
Cambridge UK (SPX) Apr 11,
2012
Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in
Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically
impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar
wave nature of particles, this is the first time that it has been controlled by
light. Their research is published in the journal Science.
Particles cannot normally pass through walls,
but if they are small enough quantum mechanics says that it can happen. This
occurs during the production of radioactive decay and in many chemical
reactions as well as in scanning tunnelling microscopes.
According to team leader, Professor Jeremy
Baumberg, "the trick to telling electrons how to pass through walls, is to
now marry them with light".
This marriage is fated because the light is in
the form of cavity photons, packets of light trapped to bounce back and forth
between mirrors which sandwich the electrons oscillating through their wall.
Research scientist Peter Cristofolini added:
"The offspring of this marriage are actually new indivisible particles,
made of both light and matter, which disappear through the slab-like walls of
semiconductor at will."
One of the features of these new particles,
which the team christened 'dipolaritons', is that they are stretched out in a
specific direction rather like a bar magnet. And just like magnets, they feel
extremely strong forces between each other.
Such strongly interacting particles are behind
a whole slew of recent interest from semiconductor physicists who are trying to
make condensates, the equivalent of superconductors and superfluids that travel
without loss, in semiconductors.
Being in two places at once, these new
electronic particles hold the promise of transferring ideas from atomic physics
into practical devices, using quantum mechanics visible to the eye.
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