The Polish-German team of quantum physicists and chemists, coordinated by Dr Karolina Słowik from the Institute of Physics of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, pointed to a new possibility of extending the life time of atomic systems in the nanoantenes environment. The research results were published in the journal Nature Communications.

The object of research was the interaction of atomic systems with light in close proximity to metallic nanostructures. Such nanostructures, a thousand times thinner than the cross section of a human hair, act as tiny antennas tuned in size to optical light lengths (fractions of micrometers).

The research was conducted in cooperation with the research teams of the University of Toruń and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The research received financial support from the Foundation for Polish Science, the National Science Center and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

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