Physicists control quantum tunneling with light for the first time
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 13:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Scientists at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge have used light to help push electrons through a classically impenetrable barrier. While quantum tunnelling is at the heart of the peculiar wave nature of particles, this is the first time that it has been controlled by light. Their research is published today, 05 April, in the journal Science.