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Optics: Speed of light reaches zero

Peter Rodgers

Published Feb 1, 2001• 0 citations

Abstract

Two teams of physicists in the US have managed to capture pulses of light in a gas, and then release the pulses a fraction of a second later. This feat – which involves reducing the speed of light in the gas to zero could be used to store information and may also have applications in quantum information processing.

DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/14/2/9

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