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 |  Subject: Research team finds evidence of matter-matter coupling  Sat Aug 25, 2018 11:41 am | |
| This is going to take 3d printing to a whole new level.  First the possibility of creating new materials, and second as it develops it will lead to a real Startrek replicator. - Quote :
- After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. They didn't expect to find it so soon.
Rice physicist Junichiro Kono, graduate student Xinwei Li and their international colleagues have discovered the first example of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter system, a result reported in Science this week.
The discovery could help advance the understanding of spintronics and quantum magnetism, Kono said. On the spintronics side, he said the work will lead to faster information processing with lower power consumption and will contribute to the development of spin-based quantum computing. The team's findings on quantum magnetism will lead to a deeper understanding of the phases of matter induced by many-body interactions at the atomic scale.
Instead of using light to trigger interactions in a quantum well, a system that produced new evidence of ultrastrong light-matter coupling earlier this year, the Kono lab at Rice used a magnetic field to prompt cooperativity among the spins within a crystalline compound made primarily of iron and erbium.
"This is an emerging subject in condensed matter physics," Kono said. "There's a long history in atomic and molecular physics of looking for the phenomenon of ultrastrong cooperative coupling. In our case, we'd already found a way to make light and condensed matter interact and hybridize, but what we're reporting here is more exotic."
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