The light was transformed into a super wisdom for the first time

Supersolids are foreign materials that, due to quantum effects, behave simultaneously as a solid and a fluid. You Researchers have now created, for the first time, kind of super-wake from laser light.

For the first time, it was created from light a solid that can flow like a fluid.

Scientific progress was released in a study this Wednesday in Nature.

“We actually turned the light into a solid. It’s fantastic, ”announced the investigation leader Dimitris Trypogeorgos of the National Research Council (CNR), in Italy.

Speaking to New Scientist, the investigator clarified that Daniele Sanvittoalso from CNR and which was part of the investigation, had already shown, for over a decade ,.

Now, together with 12 more colleagues, Sanvitto used the light to create not any solid, but a Quantum.

What is a “super-wake”?

Super-goods have simultaneously zero viscosity and a crystalline structure similar to the arrangement of atoms in salt crystals.

As New Scientist explains, super-goods so far have only been created in cooled atom experiences and at extremely low temperatures, where quantum effects, otherwise negligible, become dominant.

But in this experience, the researchers replaced the ultra-cold atoms with the semiconductor aluminum and gallium arsenieto and by a laser.

Complex interactions between light and material eventually formed a type of hybrid particle called polaritão. The pattern of the crests limited the way these “quasiparticles” could be moved and the energies they could have, so that the polaritons formed a super wide.

Then the team had to measure with great precision sufficient properties of this trapped and transformed light to prove that it was simultaneously a solid and a fluid without viscosity.

With this, the team was able to prove that it created a super-watery.

The new study will help researchers better understand exotic quantum states of matter.

Dimitris Trypogeorgos explained that light-based super-goods can be easier to manipulate than those previously created with atoms – What can make your team experience a first step towards understanding a number of new and amazing types of matter.