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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

Light can behave like a magnet

01 Apr 2019 Isabelle Dumé
Quantum simulator
A simple sketch of the theoretical simulator. Courtesy: R Rota, EPFL
Photons can behave like magnetic dipoles at absolute zero temperatures. This is the new result from

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