Strong interactions produce dance between light, dance

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Light and high-frequency acoustic sound waves in a tiny glass structure can strongly couple to one another and perform a dance in step.
A team of researchers from Imperial College London, the University of Oxford, and the National Physical Laboratory have experimentally achieved a long-standing goal to demonstrate the so-called “strong-coupling regime” between light and high-frequency acoustic vibrations.
The team’s research will have impact for classical- and quantum-information processing and even testing quantum mechanics at large scales.
The details of their research are published today in the prestigious journal Optica.