SUNY Poly's Prof. Emilio Cobanera featured in Science Daily: 'Discovery of ‘split’ photon provides a new way to see light'

SUNY Poly's Prof. Emilio Cobanera featured in Science Daily: 'Discovery of ‘split’ photon provides a new way to see light'

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Monday, December 13, 2021 - 13:29
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"Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split photons may also exist, according to a study from Dartmouth and SUNY Polytechnic Institute researchers.

"The finding that the building blocks of light can exist in a previously-unimaginable split form advances the fundamental understanding of light and how it behaves.

"The theoretical discovery of the split photon -- known as a "Majorana boson" -- was published in Physical Review Letters."

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