New surprises in quantum physics
Scenta: A French team of physicists have recently succeeded in trapping a single photon in a box on the time scale of seconds and have detected this photon many times without destroying it.
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This is a surprising and exciting progress. But I think how to use the long lived photon to the chemistry, like to explore solvated electrons. How about the energy of the photon?
Posted by: De-Yin Wu | March 14, 2008 11:56 PM
Exactly how do you detect a photon many times without destroying it? Or without reducing its energy? This question is not addressed in the story, which is taken on faith from the French scientists' claim.
Posted by: Michael Riordan | March 17, 2008 3:16 PM