Nebraska engineers' discovery could take chill off study of optoelectronic quantum fluids

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Nebraska Engineering researchers Kai Peng and Wei Bao created a polariton that allows for the first time the study of quantum fluids at room temperature.
Nebraska Engineering researchers Kai Peng and Wei Bao created a polariton that allows for the first time the study of quantum fluids at room temperature.

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Nebraska Engineering researchers Kai Peng and Wei Bao are lead authors of a paper published in the Nov. 30, 2022 edition of Nature Communications that shows it is possible to demonstrate the quantum mechanical effects of light on electronic materials, such as semiconductors, at room temperature. The team developed a new polariton that allows this observation at the macroscopic level under ambient conditions. Previously, this was only possible in laboratory chambers cooled to very low temperatures.



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