Strongly interacting photons and many-body cavity QED
Photons normally pass through each other, but inside mirrors or atomic clouds they can be made to collide and organize. Atoms in cavities also feel forces from shared light, creating long-range interacting matter.
Why it matters
Interacting light gives quantum materials made of photons and new routes to quantum networks and memories.
Review
F. Mivehvar, F. Piazza, T. Donner, H. Ritsch, Cavity QED with quantum gases: new paradigms in many-body physics, Advances in Physics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/00018732.2021.1969727 reference checked
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