{"id":128076,"date":"2024-11-20T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128076"},"modified":"2024-11-20T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T08:43:52","slug":"shape-of-a-single-photon-revealed-for-first-time-thanks-to-new-computer-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128076","title":{"rendered":"Shape Of A Single Photon Revealed For First Time Thanks To New Computer Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"isPasted\">Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, have developed an intriguing computer model to understand how light and matter interact. As tasks go, it is exceptionally hard, but the team was able to develop a strategy to simplify the problem. In doing so, they were also able to create something peculiar: an image representing the precise shape of a single photon.<\/p>\n<p>A photon is a particle of light. Light (and matter) exists both as a particle and as a wave. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/what-is-the-wave-particle-duality-76541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">duality<\/a> discovery was the solution to millennia of debate, when it became obvious from experiments that light does propagate as a wave but can also be described by distinct packets of energy, which is what we call photons.<\/p>\n<p>The interaction between individual photons and matter is very important in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/quantum-mechanics-how-the-future-might-influence-the-past-67913\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quantum mechanics<\/a>. It drives a host of different mechanisms \u2013 some of them fundamental to many technologies that we interact with every day. Understanding the interaction has been a monumental task. Light propagating through the environment has limitless possibilities for interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The team took this continuous range of possibilities and simplified it by creating a discrete set. They were able to model in this way the interaction between an emitter and a photon, as well as how the photon travels into a distant \u201cfar-field\u201d. The calculations were also able to provide a graphical understanding of the shape of a photon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur calculations enabled us to convert a seemingly insolvable problem into something that can be computed. And, almost as a bi-product of the model, we were able to produce this image of a photon, something that hasn\u2019t been seen before in physics,\u201d first author Dr Benjamin Yuen said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/2024\/new-theory-reveals-the-shape-of-a-single-photon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This theoretical work has applications in several fields, from physics to materials science. Technologies that require interactions between light and matter, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/earth-just-received-laser-beamed-cat-video-from-19-million-miles-away-72077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telecommunications<\/a> to medical devices via chemical reaction control at a molecular level, can benefit from knowing how these take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe geometry and optical properties of the environment has profound consequences for how photons are emitted, including defining the photons shape, colour, and even how likely it is to exist,\u201d co-author Professor Angela Demetriadou explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThis work helps us to increase our understanding of the energy exchange between light and matter, and secondly to better understand how light radiates into its nearby and distant surroundings. Lots of this information had previously been thought of as just \u2018noise\u2019 \u2013 but there\u2019s so much information within it that we can now make sense of, and make use of. By understanding this, we set the foundations to be able to engineer light-matter interactions for future applications, such as better sensors, improved photovoltaic energy cells, or quantum computing,\u201d Dr Yuen concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The study is published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/tracking.vuelio.co.uk\/tracking\/click?d=Vtfk6d_vqZZ9QccraN6Al3O3Jng_iX0KacE1-rwRtDQM8QuEdypsA73pgTdwfD4f32Yip5TRRhp-MfCn086igYEylHARWCS4yeDvaxx-jWYqhw7K3AcE5nXetz6x3Yx9g-3rW8VcAt54h3le0OXgkIIpjOKeHS7GPcvHGeQoofpJs2qcfpwyMn7ZqC-tlRksWA2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Physical Review Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iflscience.com\/shape-of-a-single-photon-revealed-for-first-time-thanks-to-new-computer-model-76849\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Birmingham, UK, have developed an intriguing computer model to understand how light and matter interact. 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