Could a new take on this classical experiment also offer a new way to detect rotating black holes?

A lot of the experiments that involving twisted light are done with lasers - coherent sources of light - and often rely…

New highly sensitive spectroscopy method could offer on-site carbon dating and greenhouse gas measurements

As the light repeatedly bounces between the mirrors, the radiocarbon molecules in the cavity absorb some of the light. T…

Researchers have demonstrated a new approach to modifying the light absorption and stretchability of atomically thin two…

Researchers at Heriot-Watt are developing a tamper-proof hologram that could replace serial numbers and barcodes, reduci…

For the first time, the physicists were able to quantitatively measure long-range interactions between magnetic atoms in…

An Australian research team has created a breakthrough chip for the nano-manipulation of light, paving the way for next…

So far, quantum physics has mainly been a theoretical discipline. Now, a major EURO 10,7 million investment by Innovatio…

Feedback technique used on diamond “qubits” could make quantum computing more practical.

MIT researchers describe a new approach to preserving superposition in a class of quantum devices built from synthetic d…

Swift, ultra-precise measurements of frequency ratios may open new windows on physical world

The accuracy of such clocks has reached a point where comparing clocks becomes a challenge in itself. The research grou…

Researchers have successfully integrated an on-demand light source in a silicon-based chip, the first fully integrated q…

Especially effective for plywood, these high-grade lenses have 40-20 scratch-dig surface quality

A group of UK researchers has discovered a new type of optical activity by breaking the symmetry of metamaterials with reflected light

Optical activity--rotation of the polarization of light--is well known to occur within materials that differ from their…

World leader in precision laser micro-optics showcases laser polishing benefits LaP2016 conference at ILTT

This process unique to PowerPhotonic allows it to create beam shaper optics that transform the way in which the laser is…

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo and the National Research Council of…

A new method of implementing an ‘unbreakable’ quantum cryptographic system is able to transmit information at rates more…

Researchers at the University of Rochester have overcome experimental challenges to demonstrate a new way for getting a…

Australian researchers from The University of Queensland have, for the first time, used laser light to cool a special fo…

Future quantum computers will need such a network to work together while maintaining their advantages

In the article, researchers from the UAB Department of Physics Andreas Winter and Dong Yang propose a groundbreaking met…

Quantum spin liquids are mysterious states of matter which are thought to be hiding in certain magnetic materials, but h…