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Poetry and Physics
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Di Brandt Di Brandt "At night they mused on the day mystery of how flowers eat light" Coherent oscillations of a single excitation between an isolated atom, you dreaming of ecstasy under a full moon shining over the dark lake, and a cavity, me, walking down a treelined street across the county, aching for you, have been observed, under conditions of electronically charged correspondences through superconducting transmission line resonators. O, but then the happy investigators found the strong coupling of photon to superconducting qubit in the way they had previously only imagined, however tumultuously, across rustling shadowed fields, could be demonstrated in fact. And they did. And it was. Delightful feats of atomic cavity quantum electrodynamics, on sunblasted beaches with eggshaped coloured stones, beside damp wood smoky fires at sundown, under wool blankets through ecstatic starfilled nights. The rest of that steamy summer they explored the coherent and conditional dynamics of the coupled system. For example, probing the coupled qubit oscillator spectroscopically, they were fascinated to observe the phenomenon of rising coloured sideband resonant frequencies in relation to different pulses. An extremely high frequency excited the qubit tremendously, evoking rosy hues in the sidebands.A variable frequency, on the other hand, de-excited it, resulting in shades of blue. Sometimes the coupled system fell into a mysterious in between state, simultaneously red, yet blue, for hours, days. Occasionally, owing to unavoidable distractions in either photon or cavity, the system cooled to near ground state. The calculated transmission spectrum for thermal photons then became incompatible with the experimental data, a cause for worry which the investigators, caught up as they were by the magic spectacle of matter absorbing light, brushed aside for the time being. Bees, emissaries of the sun, urgent, tender, circling her petal tips, corollic radiance. copyright Di Brandt 2005 Click here to go to Di Brandt's web page |
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