Many bodies make one coherent burst of light: Researchers see superfluorescence from solid-state material
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 16:31
in Physics & Chemistry
In a flash, the world changed for Tim Noe and for physicists who study what they call many-body problems. The Rice University graduate student was the first to see, in the summer of 2010, proof of a theory that solid-state materials are capable of producing an effect known as superfluorescence.