Polaritons are hybrid states of light and matter that occur in a wide range of physical platforms. When a nanosphere is levitated inside an optical cavity, light can hybridize with the motion on a plane rather than along an axis, resulting in ‘vectorial’ polaritons.
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Monteiro, T.S. Polaritons on a plane. Nat. Phys. 17, 1084–1085 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01313-0
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