Illustration des ’Billard-Tischs’. (Bildquelle: Australian National University)
10/14/2015 - For the first time, physicists from the University of Würzburg have successfully modelled and studied a particularly chaotic system in quantum nature. The experiment starts from the principle of a classic billiard table. An international team of physicists created a kind of miniature pool table where the balls are replaced by quantum particles. In reality, the "table" is a small chip manufactured in the Würzburg-based Gottfried-Landwehr Laboratory for Nanotechnology. The table's bumpers, however, are not made of exquisite wood, but are defined by light instead. The Australian co-authors of Excited by laser, light-matter hybrids are generated on the table and propagate in the system. "They have the property of flowing away from the position where the light pulse hits the chip," Schneider explains.
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