Longest time to stop light
Who
University of Science and Technology of China
What
3,600 second(s)
Where
China ()
When

The longest time to stop light is 3,600 seconds, and was achieved by a research team led by Chuan-Feng Li and Zong-Quan Zhou (China) at the University of Science and Technology of China, China, and published on 22 April 2021.


Chuan-Feng Li and Zong-Quan Zhou's team employed a zero-first-order-Zeeman magnetic field and dynamical decoupling to protect the spin coherence in a solid, and demonstrated coherent storage of light in an atomic frequency comb memory over 1 hour.