Sentences with phrase «particles of light»

Red light to see large particles of light, blue to look for small.

However, it has generally been thought impossible for particles of light, known as photons, to be slowed as they travel through free space, unimpeded by interactions with any materials.»

«The atoms of Democritus and Newton's particles of light Are grains upon the Red Sea shore, where Israel's tents do shine so bright.»

They are all part of the eternal swoop of sensations — particles of light in constant flux and shimmer.»

Photonics — the science and technology of generation, manipulation and detection of light — uses photons, quantum - like particles of light, instead of electrons to transmit, process, and store information.

Any type of camera, from a smartphone to a telescope, requires photons — particles of light — to see, said Lawrence Rudnick, professor of astrophysics, who is in charge of the telescope in Tate Hall.

Photons, the particles of light, have momentum.

The photons, or particles of light, from ICESat - 2's green lasers will reflect off of whatever is below them, including the tops of trees, branches and leaves, and — if there is open space in the canopy — off the ground.

Every evening in Maui, a telescope perched atop a volcano captures particles of light in the universe with the world's largest digital camera.

Single particles of light, also known as photons, have been produced and implemented into a quantum key distribution (QKD) link, paving the way for unbreakable communication networks.

The new camera takes advantage of advanced technology that can detect individual particles of light, called photons.

In recent years, physicists and engineers have been developing methods that transmit uncrackable encode messages in individual particles of light, or photons.

In contrast are photons, particles of light, which have no mass and move ceaselessly at a constant speed — the speed of light.

The easier that electrons can move around in a solar cell material, the more efficient that material will be at converting photons, particles of light, into electricity.

The system uses photons — single particles of light — as the information carrier and the scheme relies on the integrated quantum circuits developed at the University of Bristol.

The science - fiction dream of «beaming» objects from place to place is now a reality — at least for particles of light

In this phenomenon, two quantum particles (in this case, particles of light known as photons) are so intimately connected that changing the quantum state of one particle simultaneously alters the state of the other particle, even when the two particles are separated in space.

The work provides the first measurement of the energy spectrum of photons, or particles of light, that are released in the otherwise extensively measured process known as neutron beta decay.

When physicists look at the basic constituents of reality — atoms and their innards, or the particles of light called photons — what they see depends on how they have set up their experiment.

Because physicists have also created pairs of photons, particles of light, called qudits, with a D, for multiple dimensions.

So other than particles of light we call photons, it's the next most common type of particle that exists.

You might think that this proves that light really is a wave but the catch is that particles of light are doing this.

The feat showed that the particles of light can retain a strange type of interconnectedness, known as quantum entanglement, even when flung to opposite ends of a country, researchers from China report in the June 16 Science.

«These elementary particles are the second most abundant in the universe, next to the photons, which are the particles of light.

They're cages that trap photons — particles of light that move at 186,000 miles per second — like fireflies in a jar.

His team decided to use a sparse stream of photons — particles of light — instead of random numbers to encrypt information.

Particles of light, or photons, strike electronic pixels inside digital cameras to create an image.

Researchers at NIST's campus in Boulder, Colo., made the custom superconducting circuits, or chips, that amplify electrical signals generated by microwave detectors measuring primordial particles of light.

Applications such as quantum computing demand the control of beams down to single photons, the elementary particles of light.

After photons, the particles of light, neutrinos are the most numerous in the entire cosmos.

In this quantum Hall state, particles of light mimic the orbital action of electrons in more standard experiments that involve powerful magnetic fields and ultra-cold conditions of near absolute zero (minus 459.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

Information often travels through fiber - optic cables as photons, particles of light.

Physicists from the ATLAS experiment at CERN have found the first direct evidence of high energy light - by - light scattering, a very rare process in which two photons — particles of light — interact and change direction.

By catching and counting particles of light streaming from these nearby stellar engines, the HAWC collaboration showed that the two pulsars are unlikely to be the origin of the positron excess.

That's because particles of light, or photons, are mostly antisocial — they don't interact with each other.

This proof - of - principle experiment used just two particles of light.

If axions exist, they are expected to interact with photons, particles of light, from the magnetic field.

This allows the quantum information to be encoded as particles of light, which could send a signal to another device.

That may sound obvious, but many physicists were hoping that photons — particles of light — could help us to piece together the nature of the mysterious stuff thought to make up 85 per cent of the universe's matter.

«Improving performance is achievable only by replacing electrons with photons, i.e. particles of light.»

These rules predict, for example, how electrons orbit a nucleus in an atom, and how an atom can absorb photons, particles of light.

SECRET CODE A telescope in Graz, Austria, received particles of light beamed down to Earth from the Chinese satellite Micius.

Photons, or particles of light, have been spotted swapping energy with partners.

Two pulsars, Geminga and Monogem, are seen in this image in gamma rays, high - energy radiation produced when positrons and electrons collide with particles of light.

In a typical quantum cryptography scheme, particles of light called photons are sent through the air, where the particles may be absorbed or their properties muddled.

Magnetic fields make the higher energy levels split into two new levels, so electrons dive from two different platforms and emit different particles of light.

SPACING OUT Quantum communication through space is possible thanks to a Chinese satellite that beams particles of light down to telescopes like this one in Xinglong, China (shown here tracking the satellite's location with a laser).

In an uncanny exercise called the double - slit experiment, particles of light seem eager to please the experimenter.

The particle would also be a sort of a backwards version of photons (particles of light).

In a technique that could help silicon quantum computers scale up, a particle of light (pink waves) was made to interact with the spin of a single electron (pink circle).