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Large excitons in light-dress

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Giant exciton–polaritons come to the scene from a thin Cu2O crystal sandwiched by a microcavity. Their anticipated strong interactions may facilitate the development of a promising Rydberg solid-state platform for quantum technologies.

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Fig. 1: Rydberg exciton–polaritons.

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  1. Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    HeeBong Yang & Na Young Kim

  2. Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    HeeBong Yang & Na Young Kim

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    HeeBong Yang & Na Young Kim

  4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Na Young Kim

  5. Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Na Young Kim

  6. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Na Young Kim

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Yang, H., Kim, N.Y. Large excitons in light-dress. Nat. Mater. 21, 736–737 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01271-9

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