India, Sept. 22 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:
In a prominent advance for Indian quantum research, scientists have revealed how atoms, the building blocks of everything stop behaving as independent particles when pushed into extremely high-energy states. At this point, they begin to interact so strongly that their response to light is broadened and distorted by inter-atomic interactions.
This first global demonstration of interaction-driven distortions in Rydberg atomic signals at such high states could be a key in building the next generation of quantum computers, sensors, and communication devices.
Ordinary atoms are tiny, but Rydberg atoms are giants. By nudging an atom's outermost electron to a very hig...