Calculating with light pulses / Towards the computer of tomorrow

The optical abacus is installed on a microchip and can be easily manufactured. Using integrated photonic circuits the re…

Göttingen physicists develop methods to investigate optically-driven transitions at surfaces

In the experiments funded by the European Research Council, ultrashort electron pulses are scattered on solid bodies to…

By combining a very precise fabrication protocol with an tailor-made laser system, the authors have been able to demonst…

Grover’s Quantum Algorithm Successfully Implemented – Superposition Manipulated and Read out Electrically – Publication in Physical Review Letters

The scientists implemented Grover’s algorithm in a molecular magnet that was subjected to superposition with specially d…

Nano-‘hashtags’ could be the key to generating the highly sought Majorana quasiparticle

UC Santa Barbara scientists are on the cusp of a major advance in topological quantum computing

The research could dramatically improve the performance of future communication and radar systems because without this t…

New features enhance performance up to 150 times, give users increased control

Two of the most powerful new capabilities are reverse annealing and virtual graphs. These features enable significant pe…

International team of scientist develops new concept for trapping and manipulating electrons with sound waves

The basic setup described in the paper consists of a layered structure: a thin, quasi two-dimensional film of a semicond…

Abolhasani and his team developed an automated microfluidic technology called NanoRobo, in which a spectrographic monito…

ICFO researchers control light, strongly confined in an atomic-scale transistor.

The researchers built the transistor from two-dimensional materials using a bottom-up technique: two layers of graphene…

When light hits the atom, the electrons absorb the energy from the light. An instant later the electrons are freed from…

The Cold Atom Lab project should help bring theory to practice as scientists manipulate nature with lasers and magnets i…

Cooled to ultralow temperatures, this device emitted and absorbed single quanta of microwave radiation — the same way th…

QCI will focus on building a modular quantum computer that can be reconfigured and reprogrammed, with initial applicatio…

These results open the door to new integrated photonic devices, harnessing electromagnetic fields of light at nanoscale…

The coherent amplification of a localized optical signal within a planar titanium nitride nanoantenna has been achieved by scientists of Kazan Federal University, Harvard University, Nazarbayev University, and Imperial College London

The observable phenomenon is based on the nonlinear interaction of surface plasmon-polaritons and

Physicists develop new method to create images of minute structures

At DESY, the researchers successfully created an image of a hexagonal, micrometre sized structure in the shape of a benz…

Metamaterials offer the very real possibility that our most far-fetched fancies could one day become real as rocks. From…

In perfectly frustrated magnets called spin liquids, the disordered magnetism of these materials persists even at very l…

Researcher Satadal Dutta of the University of Twente now succeeds in introducing a light connection into the heart of a…