It has long been known that light can be slowed and stopped in an atomic medium using electromagnetically induced transparency. Researchers have now shown how an optical resonator can help a single photon induce its own transparency, which could have exciting applications in quantum information science.
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Lam, P., Buchler, B. The nonlinearity of single photons. Nature Photon 5, 580–581 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.251
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