Mexican scientists have developed a theoretical way to manipulate heat transfer at a nanometric scale.

Micro and nanocavities are structures designed to confine an electromagnetic wave of a certain frequency and make it res…

Sydney team develops microcircuit based on Nobel Prize research

A team at the University of Sydney and Microsoft, in collaboration with Stanford University in the US, has miniaturised…

Lenses made of graphene and precisely pierced gold sheets are able to concentrate terahertz beams to a spot, flip its polarization and modulate its intensity

These optical devices, made of graphene and a punctured gold surface, could become optical components for advanced appli…

Researchers are wielding the same strange properties that drive quantum computers to create hack-proof forms of data encryption

The system is capable of creating and distributing encryption codes at megabit-per-second rates, which is five to 10 tim…

NIST researchers develop color filters that respond to the angle of incident light

A team led by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has, for the first time, developed…

Elementary quantum-computing device used to observe quanta in propagating microwaves

A research group at the University of Tokyo and its collaborators have demonstrated for the first time that magnons—the…

Method of laser cooling may speed up investigations into magnetism and superconductivity.

The team used a new process of laser cooling to cool a cloud of rubidium atoms all the way from room temperature to 1 mi…

In their study, the ICFO researchers used two very distinct quantum nodes: the emitting node was a laser-cooled cloud of…

Physicists open the door to the first direct measurement of Berry curvature in solid matter

UC Santa Barbara physicists have opened the door to the first direct measurement of Berry curvature in solid matter. The…

Shooting electrons at diamonds can introduce quantum sensors into them

Researchers have discovered that dense ensembles of quantum spins can be created in diamond with high resolution using a…

Computer simulations lead to discovery

The research group plans to conduct further experiments to test its theory, obtained through these findings, that strong…

Lomonosov Moscow State University scientists have invented a new method of spectroscopy

An international research group together with scientists from the MSU have developed a time-resolved spectroscopy method…

Rice University scientists calculate flat boron capable of visible plasmon emissions

The researchers said their results present the interesting possibility of manipulating data at subdiffraction wavelength…

Calculating with light pulses / Towards the computer of tomorrow

The optical abacus is installed on a microchip and can be easily manufactured. Using integrated photonic circuits the re…

Göttingen physicists develop methods to investigate optically-driven transitions at surfaces

In the experiments funded by the European Research Council, ultrashort electron pulses are scattered on solid bodies to…

By combining a very precise fabrication protocol with an tailor-made laser system, the authors have been able to demonst…

Grover’s Quantum Algorithm Successfully Implemented – Superposition Manipulated and Read out Electrically – Publication in Physical Review Letters

The scientists implemented Grover’s algorithm in a molecular magnet that was subjected to superposition with specially d…

Nano-‘hashtags’ could be the key to generating the highly sought Majorana quasiparticle

UC Santa Barbara scientists are on the cusp of a major advance in topological quantum computing

The research could dramatically improve the performance of future communication and radar systems because without this t…

New features enhance performance up to 150 times, give users increased control

Two of the most powerful new capabilities are reverse annealing and virtual graphs. These features enable significant pe…