Photochemical reactions induced by optical magnetic field

A Japanese and French international research group, using surface polishing employing light with a controlled direction…

Scientists already knew that light waves have an electric field that can rotate as they propagate, which is known as the…

Most LWIR applications are designed for harsh environments: imaging scenes and locations with caustic and staining off-g…

Researchers have found that quantum effects are the reason that hydrogen sulphide – which has the distinct smell of rott…

Researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a “piezo-optomechanical circuit…

The quantum Fredkin gate has been experimentally realised for the first time

Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum…

Depth sensor built from off-the-shelf parts filters out ambient infrared light.

In their prototype, the researchers used a phone with a 30-frame-per-second camera, so capturing four images imposed a d…

Interdisciplinary global photonics research is set to revolutionise our ability to exchange data securely.

An international team of researchers has made a breakthrough in generating single photons – the single quanta of light p…

New protocol to detect entanglement of many-particle quantum states

With this new method theoretical physicists are able to use tools already well established experimentally. In their stud…

The researchers have devised a system that brings together three particles – magnons, acoustic phonons and microwave pho…

Study points the way to new photonic devices with one-way traffic lanes.

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have found a new phenomenon in the behavior of a kind of quasiparticles called…

Physicists evaluated the quantum delayed-choice experiments for the first time

Physicists around Anton Zeilinger have, for the first time, evaluated the almost 100-year long history of quantum delaye…

Researchers at UPM have revealed the underlying order of chaos by observing very long and intense laser light beams and…

Scientists at Florida State University’s National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have demonstrated a way to improve the…

UNEXPECTED HIGH-ENERGY ATOMS ILLUMINATE THE PHYSICS OF POTENTIAL QUANTUM PROCESSORS

The team looked to causes of broadening typically encountered in the lab, such as short-range interactions between atoms…

Method turns glass from clear to opaque with the flick of a switch

Researchers have developed a technique that can quickly change the opacity of a window, turning it cloudy, clear or some…

To observe these tiny perturbations, the team carved a small reflective cavity into the beam. When they shone a laser th…

Wallis formula buried in quantum mechanics calculation

While the quantum calculations developed by Danish physicist Niels Bohr in the early twentieth century give accurate val…

In collaboration with Philips Lighting, researchers from the FOM institutes AMOLF and DIFFER have found a way to switch…

Quantum mechanics and relativity theory are two pillars of modern physics. With their amalgamation, many novel phenomena…