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Laser light made into a supersolid for the first time

Scientists have made light behave like a 'supersolid' for the first time, according to a research team including Antonio Gianfate and Davide Nigro from Italy.
The researchers achieved this by firing laser light at a special semiconductor, creating a condensate of polaritons.
Their findings suggest that light-based supersolids may be easier to handle than those made with atoms, which could enhance our understanding of supersolids.
The team's research is published in the journal Nature, marking a significant advancement in the study of quantum materials.

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Newsweek

Scientists have turned light into a supersolid—here's why that's a big deal

This is the first time a supersolid has been made without using ultracold atoms.

2 days ago·United States

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IFLScience

Light Quasiparticles Have Been Turned Into A Supersolid For The First Time

Solid and light are not two words you tend to associate.

3 days ago

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American Military News

Scientists make history with major breakthrough

A new study reveals how scientists recently made history by turning light into a supersolid, marking a major breakthrough in physics. The abstract for the recent study explained that a supersolid is “a counter-intuitive phase of matter in which its constituent particles are arranged into a crystalline structure, yet they are free to flow without friction.” The abstract added, “This requires the particles to share a global macroscopic phase while…

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The Daily Wire

Historic First: Scientists Turn Light Into Supersolid

In a first in the history of physics, scientists have turned light into a supersolid. “A supersolid is a counter-intuitive phase of matter in which its constituent particles are arranged into a crystalline structure, yet they are free to flow without friction,” the abstract for the study in Nature revealed. “We actually made light into ...

4 days ago·Nashville, United States

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Phys.org

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 editors at Nature have published a Research Briefing in the same issue summarizing the work.

4 days ago·United Kingdom

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Vogon Today

Italian scientific team transforms light into a supersolid - Economic Scenarios

In an unprecedented scientific advance, a team of Italian researchers has succeeded for the first time in transforming light into a supersolid , opening new perspectives on the fascinating world of quantum states of matter. This extraordinary undertaking, led by scientists from the Italian National Research Council (CNR), marks a fundamental stage in the field of condensed matter physics. You can read the related scientific paper at this link . …

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