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Photons: Still Bosons

drorzel | June 28, 2010

Last week, Dmitry Budker's group at Berkeley published a paper in Physical Review Letters (also free on the arxiv) with the somewhat drab title "Spectroscopic Test of Bose-Einsten Statistics for Photons." Honestly, I probably wouldn't've noticed it, even though this is the sort of precision AMO test of physics that I love, had it not been for the awesome press release Berkeley put together, and this image in particular (grabbed with its caption): This is a nifty paper, and deserves a little explanation in Q&A format: Is this another New Scientist style "Einstein was wrong" paper? No. If…

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