
Particle Physics
Physicists Make Matter out of Light to Find Quantum Singularities
Experiments that imitate solid materials with light waves reveal the quantum basis of exotic physical effects
Charles D. Brown II is an assistant professor of physics at Yale University, where he uses optical lattices to study the condensed matter physics of quasicrystals. Credit: Nick Higgins
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