“Others have studied strong coupling of light and matter, but with this new process to engineer nanometer-sized versions of coaxial cables, we are pushing the frontiers of computer science vs software engineering coupling, which means we are discovering new quantum states where matter and light can have very different properties and unusual things start to happen,” said San-Hyun Oh, professor of electrical and computer engineering and the senior author of the study. “This computer science vs software engineering coupling of light and atomic vibrations opens up all kinds of possibilities for developing new quantum-based devices or modifying chemical reactions.”
Infrared light interacts with the vibration of atoms in materials. For example, when an object is heated, the atoms composing the object vibrate faster, giving off more infrared radiation, which enables thermal imaging and night-vision cameras.
The wavelengths of infrared radiation absorbed by materials depends on the particular atoms that make up the materials and how they are arranged, which enables chemists to use infrared absorption to identify different chemicals.
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