Scientists Can Now Replicate Natural Aurora Borealis through Recent Discovery of Manipulating Light

Scientists may have found a way to replicate the fascinating natural phenomena of aurora borealis after a recent discovery of an elegant way of manipulating light using a ‘synthetic’ Lorentz force. Theoretical physicists from the University of Exeter have created a new technique to create tuneable artificial magnetic fields, which enable photons to mimic the dynamics of charged particles in real magnetic fields. The recent research published in Nature Photonics journal could influence future photonic devices as it provides a new way of manipulating light below the diffraction limit. Klaus von Klitzing received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985 for discovering the quantum Hall effect, five years after the observation was made at the Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory.