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Nature Physics 5, 455 - 456 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphys1325

Subject Categories: Atomic and molecular physics | Optical physics | Quantum physics

Cavity QED: Strength in numbers

Wolfgang Lange1

  1. Wolfgang Lange is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK.
    e-mail: w.lange@sussex.ac.uk


Strong coupling of light and matter is the most important, yet challenging goal in the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics. This regime has now been reached by collectively exciting large crystals of trapped ions.

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