Gödel and Turing enter quantum physics

A small spectral gap – the energy needed to transfer an electron from a low-energy state to an excited state – is the ce…

Chinese physicists are honoured for experimental work that opens the door to better quantum computers and quantum cryptography systems

The Physics World Breakthrough of the Year 2015 award, which recognizes outstanding physics research, goes to a team of…

The new architecture can be realized on various platforms ranging from superconducting circuits to ultracold gases in op…

The OIST team’s experimental setup consists of two lasers that produce light at different wavelengths, an optical nanofi…

A new anti-reflection coating developed by engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, in collaboration…

Human teleportation may not be possible now, but Swinburne scientists have demonstrated the precise requirements for sec…

Compact system provides absolute degree of polarization accuracy <1%

The Meadowlark Optics Polarimeter uses liquid crystal variable retarders in combination with no moving parts, to ensure…

It has also increased the efficiency, consistency and scalability for massive packaging of photonic Inter Circuit chips.…

Here, the central technique also involves taking an optical lattice made from laser light and shaking it back-and-forth.…

A new phenomenon in which flow of electricity completely changes with odd and even numbers of junctions

This group confirmed that the parity effect in graphene antidot devices has a good analogy to optical systems. This mean…

Its patented technology, relies on a device based on optical processing of information, and may be used as an ultrafast…

Researchers at AMOLF have discovered a new technique for making transparent conductors used in electronics such as solar cells and smartphones.

The patterns of this conductor are smaller than the wavelength of light; as a result, they do not reflect any colours fr…

Rice University’s laser-induced graphene makes simple, powerful energy storage possible

Rice University researchers who pioneered the development of laser-induced graphene have configured their discovery into…

A new study of light by UCF optics and photonics researchers has detected a type of force that can push particles sidewa…

The nonlinear response of graphene enables excitation and detection of plasmons using far-field optics

Surface plasmons in graphene offer a compelling platform for photonic technologies, exhibiting intriguing properties suc…

Magnetic field helps qubit electrons store information longer

The TUM physicists evaporated indium gallium arsenide onto a gallium arsenide substrate to form their nanostructure. As…

PLAT4M Project Focused on Speeding Industrialization of the Technology

CEA-Leti and its partners in the European FP7 project PLAT4M today announced they have built three silicon photonics pla…

Computer simulations that predict the light-induced change in the physical and chemical properties of complex systems, m…

An emerging class of atomically thin materials known as monolayer semiconductors has generated a great deal of buzz in t…

Scientists at EPFL show how a light-induced force can amplify the sensitivity and resolution of a technique used to stud…