PHOTON PAIRS Laser light in water (shown) exhibits an unexpected quirk: Light particles interact with their companions in the same way electrons pair up in superconductors.
Not exact matches
When the researchers shined a
laser on water,
pairs of
photons that emerged from the liquid at the same time tended to have complementary energies.
In an oft - repeated version of the
photon experiment, a
pair of entangled
photons, A and B, are created by a
laser beam.
To simulate these conditions, researchers use special facilities at the Advanced
Photon Source, where they shine high - powered
lasers to heat up the sample inside a pressure cell made of a
pair of diamonds.
He and his colleagues produced
pairs of entangled
photons with a
laser, which shoots them at two detectors, each fitted with a filter that allows only
photons of a particular polarisation through.
When both members of the
pair became excited, one of them would normally fall to the lower rung before being struck by an incoming
photon, producing no
photon along the way and leaving too few excited electrons to make
laser light.
In developing the method, Kwiat and his team first passed a
laser pulse through two adjacent nonlinear crystals to create
pairs of polarization - entangled
photons.
Once created, each entangled
pair of
photons is separated by passing a
laser beam made up of them through a filter made from a non-linear crystal.