5 comments

  • tekla 12 days ago
    Probably better off linking to the actual paper.

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-024-01425-y

    Light is not feeling a magnetic field, its a different mechanism

  • mmastrac 11 days ago
    It sounds like the magnetic field is somehow interacting with the photon/nucleus/electron absorbtion/re-emission. The photons don't feel the magnetic field, but the combined system appears as if they do?

    It's like how light appears to slow down in a material: it isn't actually slower, but the photon re-emission makes it appear so.

    (not a physicist)

  • mensetmanusman 11 days ago
    Understanding landau levels is important for optimizing light/matter interactions to improve signal to noise in future chips that incorporate light and electron motion for computation gains.
  • qorrect 12 days ago
    > the researchers observed, for the first time, that it forms discrete energy bands called Landau levels

    Isn't this huge news? Discrete energy levels for photons?

  • Chris2048 12 days ago
    As I understand, there are no magnetic fields involved?