What caught my eye was that this can change the ground state, initiate phase changes, fueled by polaritons in a confined cavity… all the ingredients we hear mentioned by Jones and axil, but…. done with low power [snip] Kono said the amount of terahertz light put into the cavity is very weak. "What we depend on is the vacuum fluctuation. Vacuum, in a classical sense, is an empty space. There's nothing. But in a quantum sense, a vacuum is full of fluctuating photons, having so-called zero-point energy. These vacuum photons are actually what we are using to resonantly excite electrons in our cavity.[/snip]
]Fran From: Che [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 8:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [Vo]:Light and matter merge in quantum coupling On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Roarty, Francis X <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160822152626.htm “"This general subject is what's known as cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED)," Kono said. "In cavity QED, the cavity enhances the light so that matter in the cavity resonantly interacts with the vacuum field. What is unique about solid-state cavity QED is that the light typically interacts with this huge number of electrons, which behave like a single gigantic atom."” Light and matter are essentially manifestations of the same energetic motions (of whatever): so it's not surprising that, with the proper geometries and harmonics, they can be effortlessly made to manifest each other 'symbiotically', on-demand, in a lab. Sooner or later Humans were going to find out how. But who beat us to it..!? :P
