There are many different physical systems that could in principle be used as quantum bits. The problem is that most quan…

This feat was achieved thanks to the nanometrically-precise positioning of a quantum dot within an optical microcavity.…

Physicists develop a way to precisely engineer the transition point for the phase-transition material vanadium dioxide to occur at specific temperatures

Rather than relying on mechanical components to focus an object such as a camera lens or telescope eyepiece, a tunable m…

Creation of first practical silicon-based laser has the potential to transform communications, healthcare and energy systems

A group of researchers from the UK, including academics from Cardiff University, has demonstrated the first practical la…

ICFO researchers develop a new non-invasive, low cost, room-temperature technique for graphene device characterization.

The team of researchers has been able to develop a system capable of probing the electrical and optical properties of gr…

Physicists for the First Time Demonstrate Teleportation of Classic Object

The team of scientists lead by science fiction fan Szameit has now for the first demonstrated in an experiment that the…

New quantum computer, based on five atoms, factors numbers in a scalable way.

The computer uses laser pulses to carry out Shor’s algorithm on each atom, to correctly factor the number 15. The system…

Experiment opens door for quantum encryption

Researchers have achieved a new milestone in quantum physics: they were able to entangle three particles of light in a h…

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have for the first time experimentally demonstrated that…

MPQ scientists observe unusual interference phenomena by scattering laser light from two atoms trapped inside an optical resonator

The investigation and exploitation of light-matter-interaction in optical resonators is one of the central research topi…

A team of researchers from the University of Twente and from Philips in the Netherlands has suc­ceeded in taking an impo…

Researchers have engineered quantum Hall behavior in other platforms besides the solid-state realm in which it was origi…

The laws of nature in the domain of quanta do not apply to our everyday lives. We are used to assign an exact location a…

Researchers report in Nature Communications this week that they have for the first time identified an unexpected propert…

New scheme opens a door for transmitting information much faster

A plasmon is a quantum particle that arises from collective oscillations of free electrons. By controlling the plasmons,…

A team of quantum physicists at Aalto University managed to tame a so-called "dark state".

A so-called "dark state" was created in a superconducting qubit. A superconducting qubit is an artificial atom fabricate…

Physicists at the University of Glasgow have developed a new and inexpensive way to make radially polarised white light,…

NIST scientists have devised and improved a prototype instrument the size of a loaf of bread that can substantially incr…

New silicon platform compresses light waves past their ‘diffraction limit’ to vastly improve resolution for bio-imaging and nano lithography applications

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed technology to compress light wavelengths fourf…

Scientists demonstrate versatile, noise-tolerant quantum operations on a single electron

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate a quantum logic operation, or rotation of the qubit, that—surprisi…