Slow light articles within Nature Physics

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    Light propagating through a cloud of cold atoms can be slowed down by exciting a certain type of spin wave in the atomic ensemble. This stationary light could find applications in quantum technologies.

    • J. L. Everett
    • , G. T. Campbell
    •  & B. C. Buchler

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    By exploiting the interaction between light and phonons in a silica microsphere resonator it is possible to generate Brillouin scattering induced transparency, which is akin to electromagnetically induced transparency but for acoustic waves.

    • JunHwan Kim
    • , Mark C. Kuzyk
    •  & Gaurav Bahl

  • News & Views |

    In 2006, Nature Physics published a paper reporting a Stern–Gerlach effect for dark polaritons and one revealing the existence of slow-light solitons. Both of these papers have significantly advanced the field of slow-light research.

    • Ebrahim Karimi
    •  & Robert W. Boyd

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