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…

Plasmonic interferometers make use of the interaction between light and surface plasmon polaritons, density waves create…

The system's high degree of automation enables measurement in the entire field, shortens measurement time and rules out…

Improved photo-structurable glass ideal for RF/MEMS and biotech applications

This material is characterized by advanced photosensitivity and homogeneity. These unique properties combined allow a hi…

The documents were recorded using ultrafast laser, producing extremely short and intense pulses of light. The file is wr…

A completely non-mechanical, live optical link with multiplexed data transmission will be on display. The engine for est…

Xu and his team wanted to create and explore the properties of a 2-D semiconductor heterostructure made up of two differ…

Durable, power-stable optics with low absorption rates are a prerequisite for energy-efficient laser systems. The Coatin…

The tiny cyanobacteria use the principle of the lens in the human eye to perceive light direction

The Wilde group together with an international team discovered that cyanobacteria, which can move directly and precisely…

Optical strontium atomic clock sets new stability record

Researchers from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt have thoroughly analyzed the noise processes in their optical…

The study carried out by MIT, NIMS and ICFO used graphene to control electron energy transport in nano-devices.

When light hits graphene, the electronic thermal equilibrium is reached in really fast timescales, in the order of femto…

Researchers led by EPFL have made a tiny, ring-shaped device that can generate a pulsed laser signal. Their work could b…