Here, a calcite crystal is struck with a laser operating at 445 nanometers, fluorescing and displaying properties of birefringence. Unlike the standard picture of light breaking into individual ...
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No sooner had the radical equations of quantum mechanics been discovered than physicists identified one of the strangest phenomena the theory allows. “Quantum tunneling” shows how profoundly particles ...