The quantum simulator used by the ETH researchers consists of extremely cold rubidium atoms that are exposed to several…

The scientists introduce trapped-ion quantum error correction protocols that detect and correct processing errors

The experiments, published in Science, exploit a fascinating quantum effect to produce droplets of this exotic phase of matter.

The team cooled down a gas of potassium atoms to -273.15 degrees Celsius, very close to the absolute zero. Although at t…

In the Quantum Memories Laboratory at Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw a group of laser-cooled atoms has been us…

TracePro 7.8.3 and 2018 further enhance the most powerful and sophisticated optical analysis and design software availab…

Following a surge in demand over the past two years, Jenoptik's Optical Systems division will cater especially to laser material processing market with a host of new and improved products in 2018.

Four new completely fused silica F-Theta objective lenses, a fused silica beam expander for high-power laser application…

The team constructed a gate that controls interactions between the electrons in a way that allows them to act as the qua…

Researchers are the first to observe the electronic structure of graphene in an engineered semiconductor; finding could lead to progress in advanced optoelectronics and data processing

The team probed the electronic states of the artificial lattices by shining laser light on them and measuring the light…

An international team of scientists from Russia, Sweden and the USA suggested replacing gold and silver, which are used…

MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network.

The coherence time of the stored quantum bit outlasts 100 milliseconds and therefore matches the requirement for the cre…

Nanoscale silicon posts can reflect light differently depending on the angle of incoming light

A team at Caltech has figured out a way to encode more than one holographic image in a single surface without any loss o…

Scientists from the University of Konstanz, Princeton University and the University of Maryland now succeeded in creatin…

Transient absorption spectroscopy of a single molecule in Nature Photonics

A first excitation pulse was followed by a phase-locked de-excitation pulse pair, providing spectral encoding with 25 fs…

UC Berkeley physicists, who are expert at measuring minute forces using atom interferometry, designed an experiment to c…

The Fraunhofer Project Center will develop an innovative machine for this, and it will also support the production proce…

DESY team generates X-ray focus below 10 nanometres diameter

To meet the required precision, Bajt’s team combined a novel fabrication process with detailed understanding of the mate…

Device’s braided qubits could form component of topological quantum computer

In the new study, Rice physicist Rui-Rui Du and former Rice graduate student Lingjie Du collaborated with researchers fr…

Up-converting nanoparticles are attracting attention as a substitute for a fluorescent substance such as an organic dye…

Using mathematical models, researchers are learning how lasers might be used to switch how electrons spin within magnetic materials, making room for faster magnetic memory devices

Tohoku University researchers have developed a computational simulation that shows that using ultrafast laser pulses to…

The team observed a group of atoms emitting light pulses at different rates than their ordinary, unsynchronized selves—o…