Scientists at the Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences (BAQIS) have shattered the world record for light storage. Recently, they successfully held light-based information for an unprecedented 4,035 seconds – over an hour.
“Storing light has always been a challenge across the world,” said Liu Yulong, an associate researcher at BAQIS and the study’s first author, as reported by China’s Xinhua news agency.
This remarkable feat represents a major step forward in the quest to harness the power of quantum mechanics.
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