UChicago Physicists First to See Behavior of Quantum Materials in Curved Space

Interplay of light, matter is of potential technological interest

These false-color images represent the quantum Hall state that UChicago physicists created by shining infrared laser light at specially configured mirrors. Achieving this state with light instead of matter was an important step in developing computing and other applications from quantum phenomena.  Courtesy of  Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou, Andrey Gromov, Ariel Sommer, and Jonathan Simon