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March 04, 2015

The first ever photograph of light as a particle and a wave
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 03, 2015
Quantum mechanics tells us that light can behave simultaneously as a particle or a wave. However, there has never been an experiment able to capture both natures of light at the same time; the closest we have come is seeing either wave or particle, but always at different times. Taking a radically different experimental approach, EPFL scientists have now been able to take the first ever snapshot of light behaving both as a wave and as a particle. The breakthrough work is published in Nature Commun ... read more

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