Color Duality in Photons
Work of the physicist Sven Ramelow selected as one of the “Highlights of the Year 2016”
The paper “Ramsey Interference with Single Photons”[1] and accompanying Viewpoint “Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors”[2] have been selected as one of the Highlights of the Year 2016 by APS Physics. It was co-authored by Dr. Sven Ramelow, who recently started his Emmy-Noether-Group at the Institute for Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, and is associated with IRIS Adlershof.
While there have numerous highly interesting papers in Physical Review Letters in 2016, APS Physics explains their selection, writing: “It’s no surprise that LIGO’s discovery of gravitational waves tops our list of favorite Physics stories in 2016. The other slots went to research that marked a change in perspective, demonstrated an impressive experimental feat, or simply made us think.”
Incidentally, Dr. Sven Ramelow is working on follow-up ideas and experiments of this paper, which he looks forward to soon being implemented at the HU Physics Department and at IRIS Adlershof and yielding new intriguing results.
[1] “Ramsey Interference with Single Photons”, Stéphane Clemmen, Alessandro Farsi, Sven Ramelow, Alexander L. Gaeta, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 223601 (2016)
[2] “Viewpoint: Photon Qubit is Made of Two Colors”, Philipp Treutlein, Physics 9, 135 (2016)
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