Making Strongly Interacting Photons

这个理论项目旨在研究量子物理中的强关联极化子。极化子被称为光的量子流体，是半光、半物质的粒子，表现出无摩擦、零能量成本的流动，这种惊人的量子行为被称为超流。这个项目希望在我们对远离平衡的强相互作用区域中的极化子的理解上取得突破，并填补在室温下实现光的超流的知识空白。这应该会开启量子极化电子学的新时代，为节能激光和全光晶体管奠定基础，使澳大利亚成为新型光子技术商业化的世界领先者。

This theoretical project aims to investigate strongly correlated polaritons in quantum physics. Known as quantum fluids of light, polaritons are half-light, half-matter particles exhibiting frictionless, zero-energy-cost flows, an astonishing quantum behaviour known as superfluidity. This project expects to make a breakthrough in our understanding of polaritons in the strongly interacting regime far from equilibrium and fill in the knowledge gap towards the realisation of a superfluid of light at room temperature. This should open a new era of quantum polaritonics that forms the basis for energy-efficient laser and all-optical transistor, establishing Australia as a world leader in commercialising novel photonic technologies.