This nano-structure exhibits unusually high optical emission after excitation with a laser, especially in the

Jon Schuller takes a materials approach to the application-rich area of steering light beams without moving parts

One way to encode digital data is to turn a laser on and off rapidly, which can be achieved by splitting the laser into…

Someday your self-driving car could react to hazards before you even see them, thanks to a laser-based imaging technology being developed by Stanford researchers that can peek around corners.

For their system, the researchers set a laser next to a highly sensitive photon detector, which can record even a single…

The new work published in Nature Physics demonstrate similar phenomena in the quantum-gas phase thanks to magnetic inter…

JILA scientists have invented a new imaging technique that produces rapid, precise measurements of quantum behavior in a…

To achieve the re-absorption of a photon even at room temperature, the researchers use a plasmonic nanoresonator, which…

This knotted skyrmion may provide insight into a stable ball of plasma that could enhance future fusion reactors.

Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have created, for the first time a three-dimensional skyrmion in a qu…

Understanding extreme high pressure states created by laser light interacting with materials is crucial for laser-based…

Short, rotating pulses of light reveal a great deal about the inner structure of materials. An international team of phy…

Approach could cut resources required for simulations of processes such as traffic flow and neuron firing

A quantum simulator can be in many different states at the same time, each with its own probability of being realised. T…

Physicists build bizarre molecules called ‘Rydberg polarons’

By coordinating the timing of laser pulses with changes in the electric field, the researchers were able to create and c…

The Toffoli gate is a three-qubit operation that changed the state of a target qubit conditioned on the state of two con…

Housed in an ultra-stable testing environment, this interferometric set-up will allow direct qualification of larger fla…

The quantum state of the physical system is encoded in a so-called neural network, and learning is achieved in small ste…

Microresonator-based optical frequency combs enable highly-precise optical distance ranging at a rate of 100 million measurements per second – publication in Science.

This demonstration was enabled by a new type of chip-scale light source developed at EPFL, generating optical frequency…

These electron pulses are produced by a high power laser irradiating a glass target hosted in a vacuum chamber on a tabl…

International research team makes important step on the path to solving certification problems

Their example of a difficult certification problem is sorting a defined number of photons after they have gone through a…

In this strong-field phenomenon, many low-energy photons emitted by a very strong laser are converted to fewer photons,…

To see how the waves propagate along the metasurface, the researchers used a state-of the-art infrared nanoimaging techn…

Storing information in a quantum memory system is a difficult challenge, as the data is usually quickly lost. At TU Wien, ultra-long storage times have now been achieved using tiny diamonds.

For the first time, scientists at the Institute of Atomic and Subatomic Physics at TU Wien have now been able to experim…