While the lightsaber is a fictional weapon, it is an undeniably ingenious invention — compact and lightweight with a hyp…

Ultrafast and high efficiency manipulation of the quantum states of helium with high power lasers enables the realizatio…

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have added to their collection of ingredients for futur…

This is the first report of the introduction of molecules to the surface controlling the emission of light—of any color—…

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Oxford University have demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possib…

Paving the way for selecting a specific state of nonpolar molecules.

The electric field of the optical standing wave disperses the molecules, according to their rotational quantum numbers J…

An optical device at nanoscale which allows light to pass in only one direction has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna). It consists of alkali atoms which are coupled to ultrathin glass fibres.

If light is able to propagate from left to right, the opposite direction is usually allowed as well. A beam of light can…

Gödel and Turing enter quantum physics

A small spectral gap – the energy needed to transfer an electron from a low-energy state to an excited state – is the ce…

Chinese physicists are honoured for experimental work that opens the door to better quantum computers and quantum cryptography systems

The Physics World Breakthrough of the Year 2015 award, which recognizes outstanding physics research, goes to a team of…

The new architecture can be realized on various platforms ranging from superconducting circuits to ultracold gases in op…

The OIST team’s experimental setup consists of two lasers that produce light at different wavelengths, an optical nanofi…

A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration…

Human teleportation may not be possible now, but Swinburne scientists have demonstrated the precise requirements for sec…

Compact system provides absolute degree of polarization accuracy <1%

The Meadowlark Optics Polarimeter uses liquid crystal variable retarders in combination with no moving parts, to ensure…

It has also increased the efficiency, consistency and scalability for massive packaging of photonic Inter Circuit chips.…

Here, the central technique also involves taking an optical lattice made from laser light and shaking it back-and-forth.…

A new phenomenon in which flow of electricity completely changes with odd and even numbers of junctions

This group confirmed that the parity effect in graphene antidot devices has a good analogy to optical systems. This mean…

Its patented technology, relies on a device based on optical processing of information, and may be used as an ultrafast…

Researchers at AMOLF have discovered a new technique for making transparent conductors used in electronics such as solar cells and smartphones.

The patterns of this conductor are smaller than the wavelength of light; as a result, they do not reflect any colours fr…

Rice University’s laser-induced graphene makes simple, powerful energy storage possible

Rice University researchers who pioneered the development of laser-induced graphene have configured their discovery into…