With the presentation of the world's only aspheric 4 '' Fizeau lens a|FizeriC, asphericon revolutionizes measurement technology.

In addition to the reduction in the number of lenses used and the associated weight reduction, the use of an asphere at…

New system could shed light on a host of complex processes

The system could be used to shed light on a host of complex quantum processes, including the connection between quantum…

By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, researchers have paved the way for computers based on lig…

A team of researchers led by Hideo Hosono at Tokyo Tech has shown that terahertz rays can be converted to light visible…

The NBI discovery should be seen in the context of quantum computers, the new and powerful next generation super compute…

In their first two experimental tests of the new method, the Munich researchers turned their attosecond pulse trains on…

This research will contribute to the study of new quantum information devices using phase-super-current and will contrib…

Atoms provide a robust platform for observing quantum magnets in action.

As the basis for its quantum simulation, the JQI team deploys up to 53 individual ytterbium ions—charged atoms trapped i…

In their theoretical research, the results of which were published in the journal Optica, the physicists managed to disp…

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…