An image from an experiment in the quantum optics laboratory in Cambridge. Laser light was used to excite individual tiny, artificially constructed atoms known as quantum dots, to create 鈥渟queezed鈥 single photons

Scientists "squeeze" light one particle at a time

01 September 2015

A team of scientists have measured a bizarre effect in quantum physics, in which individual particles of light are said to have been 鈥渟queezed鈥 鈥 an achievement which at least one textbook had written off as hopeless.

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