In the article, researchers from the UAB Department of Physics Andreas Winter and Dong Yang propose a groundbreaking met…

Quantum spin liquids are mysterious states of matter which are thought to be hiding in certain magnetic materials, but h…

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The DOE TUNER is a variable beam expander with a zoom range between 0.8 and 1.2. If the DOE TUNER is placed before a dif…

The mathematics that explains the collective motion of protons in ice is exactly the same as the mathematics that descri…

Researchers from CIC nanoGUNE, in collaboration with ICFO and Graphenea, have demonstrated how infrared light can be cap…

Andor Shamrock spectrometer and fast, sensitive iXon EMCCD camera at heart of discovery

Now, for the first time, an international group of scientists has demonstrated that the fundamental concepts of electric…

Columbia-led Research Team First to Demonstrate a Strong, Non-contact Heat Transfer Channel Using Light with Performances that Could Lead to High Efficiency Electricity Generation

All objects in our environment exchange heat with their surroundings using light. This includes the light coming at us f…

The team illuminated the cloud with two interfering lasers—similar to previous experiments in which neutral atoms were m…

Photochemical reactions induced by optical magnetic field

A Japanese and French international research group, using surface polishing employing light with a controlled direction…

Scientists already knew that light waves have an electric field that can rotate as they propagate, which is known as the…

Most LWIR applications are designed for harsh environments: imaging scenes and locations with caustic and staining off-g…

Researchers have found that quantum effects are the reason that hydrogen sulphide – which has the distinct smell of rott…

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a “piezo-optomechanical circuit…

The quantum Fredkin gate has been experimentally realised for the first time

Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum…

Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light.

In their prototype, the researchers used a phone with a 30-frame-per-second camera, so capturing four images imposed a d…

Interdisciplinary global photonics research is set to revolutionise our ability to exchange data securely.

An international team of researchers has made a breakthrough in generating single photons – the single quanta of light p…

New protocol to detect entanglement of many-particle quantum states

With this new method theoretical physicists are able to use tools already well established experimentally. In their stud…

The researchers have devised a system that brings together three particles – magnons, acoustic phonons and microwave pho…

Study points the way to new photonic devices with one-way traffic lanes.

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have found a new phenomenon in the behavior of a kind of quasiparticles called…

Physicists evaluated the quantum delayed-choice experiments for the first time

Physicists around Anton Zeilinger have, for the first time, evaluated the almost 100-year long history of quantum delaye…