Engineers have combined innovative optical technology with nanocomposite thin-films to create a new type of sensor that…

Dr Gerardo Adesso will use the 1.35M Euro Starting Grant from the European Research Council to investigate new and origi…

The plasmonic phase modulator is effectively an inverted, nanoscale speed bump. Eleven gold strands are stretched side b…

The core circuits of quantum teleportation, which generate and detect quantum entanglement, have been successfully integ…

Diamond, which is a vast array of carbon atoms, can contain a wide variety of defects. An NV center defect is formed whe…

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have just developed a method that could be used to obtain extremely precise me…

Findings may lead to new kinds of materials for electronics and superconducting magnets

A new explanation for a type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with

According to quantum mechanics, a single particle can be described by a wave function that spreads over arbitrarily larg…

Picosecond measurements reveal high conductivity of topological insulators

Topological insulators are an exceptional group of materials. Their interior acts as an insulator, but the surface condu…

In experiments with ultracold rubidium atoms MPQ scientists create magnetic quantum crystals made of gigantic Rydberg atoms

In their experiment the scientists prepare an ensemble of about 250 to 700 rubidium atoms in an optical lattice – a chec…

New stream for topological quantum computer research

Researchers have fabricated ZnO heterostructures of unprecedented high quality, and observed the quantum phase in a mate…

Highly precise and stable surface coatings are essential for many applications, whether for eyeglasses, or for optics fo…

First proof of single attosecond pulse generation at the carbon K-edge.

Until now and after a decade of continuous research and development, attoscience has culminated in the generation of iso…

ICFO researchers detect particle entanglement in a beam of squeezed light

In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted by the magazine Science News, the research group…

A breakthrough in the control of a type of particle known as the polariton has created a highly specialised form of rotation.

This opens the door to all kinds of other superfluid light effects, which could have applications in optical communicati…

Result could make atomic clocks more accurate.

Physicists from MIT and the University of Belgrade have developed a new technique that can successfully entangle 3,000 a…

Surface plasmons are waves of electrons that are generated under particular conditions by directing light onto a nanostr…

The Optical NanoGauge C13027 also provides double the measurement speed of previous systems

A new technology, which creates a rainbow of optical colors with ultra-thin layers of silicon, has been recently demonst…

Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University have demonstrated a more robust metho…