Two scientists at Texas A&M University have “found evidence of cooperation among atoms within solids,” called superfluorescence. The two first predicted this effect and observed the phenomenon in “electron-hole pairs created in a semiconductor using lasers.” One of the scientists, Dr. Alexey Belyanin, said “the true beauty of the experiment lies in the after-effects of that powerful femtosecond laser pulse, which near-instantaneously creates a huge number of free electrons that bump into each other and into the atoms of a crystal. But instead of gradually losing their energies and eventually disappearing in the course of a few nanoseconds, thereby returning the crystal back to equilibrium.”
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