In a new study, recently published in the journal Science, scientists demonstrate a novel method for generating cavity-p…

Nanopillar-studded surfaces interact with light to provide a new way to trap, image and manipulate single atoms.

In the new design, instead of typical lenses, the NIST team used unconventional optics — a square glass wafer about 4 mi…

Such a switch could eventually enable data processing using photons. The research was published in the

Quantum heat engines are heat engines based on quantum mechanical principles. There have been several theoretical propos…

Quantum computing hardware specialists at UNSW have built a quantum processor in silicon to simulate an organic molecule with astounding precision.

A team of quantum computer physicists at UNSW Sydney have engineered a quantum processor at the atomic scale to simulate…

The ability to produce two distinctly different images is possible thanks to the ANU scientists' ability to control the…

In their experiments, the physicists used so-called quantum dots, structures in semiconductors only a few nanometres in…

By measuring at wavelength, end users in remote sensing, defense, and aerospace measure optical performance without need…

To experimentally demonstrate that this principle actually works, the researchers illuminated the material with laser li…

Researchers at Rochester and Erlangen have taken a decisive step toward creating ultrafast computers.

In the researchers’ experiment, the input signals are the shape or phase of two synchronized laser pulses, each one chos…

Reinterpretation of quantum computers' 'quantum entanglement' as the complementary wave nature of quantum mechanics

Non-local quantum correlation has been fully demonstrated experimentally over the past half century. The limitation of e…

A university-industry collaboration has successfully run a quantum algorithm on a type of quantum computer known as a co…

Harnessing of 'tricky' material could advance quantum computing

Electro-optic modulators encode electrical signals onto an optical carrier. They are essential for the operation of glob…

Here the researchers proposed and demonstrated a new and utterly simple way to generate entangled light. It exploits the…

The work provides a new use of optical cavities as mechanical quantum squeezers, and it suggests a viable new route in l…

Weizmann Institute of Science researchers present Israel’s first quantum computer

The Weizmann computer is a five-qubit machine, roughly the level achieved by IBM’s version when the company first starte…

The physicists performed frequency measurements based on variational quantum calculations on their ion trap quantum comp…

Development of light-operated perovskite optical-logic devices

The research team focused on optical-logic devices that use light with low physical energy loss as an input signal. For…

Breakthrough wafer-level optics technologies help solve a key challenge of connecting many fibers to silicon chips for datacom and telecom applications

Under this collaboration, standard CMOS wafers that implement silicon photonics chips will be post processed using EVG's…

In materials research, considerable progress is made by exploiting insights from the field of topology. Similar tools can now be applied to lasers.

A collaboration between the Technical University of Vienna and research teams from the USA has led to the development of…