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Wow, this is certainly surprising. I wonder if there are any useful applications?
by deepnotderp 9y ago
Wow, this is certainly surprising. I wonder if there are any useful applications?
- Koshkin 9y agoWell, the interesting part of the electron-electron pairing is that two fermions form a boson, which is what accounts for superconductivity. In the case of paring of photons, which are bosons to begin with, the effect is more subtle; I can only hope that it will eventually find a useful application, e.g. in communications or quantum computing...
- deepnotderp 9y agoYeah, I found that weird too, but apparently the paper says that this is mathematically equivalent if they also use virtual phonons, which is interesting indeed. I wonder if these are collective excitations (the boson equivalent of quasiparticles) instead of something similar to Cooper pairing. I haven't read the paper though, so this is just me thinking out loud.