Sunday, 23 February 2020

What if we could teach photons to behave like electrons?

The researchers tricked photons - which are intrinsically non-magnetic - into behaving like charged electrons. They accomplished this by sending the photons through carefully designed mazes in a way that caused the light particles to behave as if they were being acted upon by what the scientists called a ''synthetic'' or ''artificial'' magnetic field.

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