Researchers at the Humboldt University of Berlin have demonstrated a surprising effect present in the fluorescent light of a single atom.
Researchers headed by Jürgen Volz and Arno Rauschenbeutel from the Department of Physics at the Humboldt University of Berlin have gained new insights into the scattering of light by a fluorescent atom, which could also be useful for quantum communication. The research team has now published their results in the scientific journal Nature Photonics.In 1900, Max Planck formulated the hypothesis that light cannot exchange arbitrary amounts of energy with matter, such as an atom, but only certain discrete "energy packets" called quanta. ...
