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Breakthrough Study Reveals Quantum Potential of Graphene Cavities

10/21/2025

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Researchers from the Max-Planck Institute and Columbia University show van der Waals heterostructures can act as terahertz cavities.
The study, published in Nature Physics, demonstrates confinement of terahertz light in standing waves.
They developed chip-scale circuitry to measure the terahertz response of these materials.
Their results indicate self-cavity modes in graphene and graphite can hybridize, implying new quantum phenomena and applications.

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Researchers from the Max-Planck Institute and Columbia University show van der Waals heterostructures can act as terahertz cavities.
The study, published in Nature Physics, demonstrates confinement of terahertz light in standing waves.
They developed chip-scale circuitry to measure the terahertz response of these materials.
Their results indicate self-cavity modes in graphene and graphite can hybridize, implying new quantum phenomena and applications.