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What if metals could conduct light? - EurekAlert


Conventional metals cannot conduct light in their interiors, but scientists have discovered that in the quantum metal ZrSiSe, electrons can give rise to plasmons. These are collective oscillations in a material that are strong and long lived, and they can combine with photons to form new modes called polaritons that can carry photons along zig-zag paths in the material.

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