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Light-controlled Higgs modes found in superconductors
This illustration shows light flashing at trillions of pulses-per-second (red flash) and accessing and controlling Higgs modes (gold balls) -- a state of matter found at the quantum scale of atoms, their electronic states and energetic excitations -- in an iron-based superconductor. Even at different energy bands, the Higgs modes interact with each other (white smoke).
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DMR 1905981.]
Learn more in the Iowa State University news story Light-controlled Higgs modes found in superconductors; potential sensor, computing uses . (Date image taken: December 2020; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: Oct. , 2021)
Credit: Jigang Wang, Iowa State University
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