Landmark Solid Material Changes How We Use Sunlight
Solar power is becoming increasingly important as a renewable energy source. The high-energy UV light with a wavelength shorter than 400 nm found in sunlight…
Photon News
MIT Engineers Discover a New Way To Control Atomic Nuclei As “Qubits”
Researchers have discovered a way to control the spin property of nuclei, which can store quantum information, using lasers. Quantum-based devices, including computers and sensors,…
Scientists Prove Validity of Key Physics Theorem in the Quantum World
The validity of a key theorem in physics for Bose-Einstein condensates has been confirmed by researchers at the University of Bonn. The physicists at the…
Quantum Breakthrough: A New Method for On-Chip Generation of Single Photon
The Moody Lab has created a novel approach for generating single photons on a chip. The buzz surrounding the future of quantum technology continues to…
New Study Suggests Dark Matter May Be Made of Dark Photons
The hypothetical new particles could potentially account for the observations made by the Cosmic Origin Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. According to a new…
Google Quantum AI Reveals Bound States of Photons Hold Strong Even in the Midst of Chaos
Using a quantum processor, researchers made microwave photons uncharacteristically sticky. After coaxing them to clump together into bound states, they discovered that these photon clusters…
New Invention Triggers One of Quantum Mechanics’ Strangest and Most Useful Phenomena
Through the Quantum Looking Glass By helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, an ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing,…
“Split” Photon Provides New Way To See Light – Predicts Existence of Previously-Unimaginable Particle
Research predicts the existence of a previously-unimaginable particle. When Italian physicist Ettore Majorana suggested that electrons could be split into halves nearly a century ago,…
“Split” Photons – New Research Predicts the Existence of a Previously-Unimaginable Particle
Nearly a century after Italian physicist Ettore Majorana laid the groundwork for the discovery that electrons could be divided into halves, researchers predict that split…
Physicists Probe Light Smashups To Guide Future Research Beyond the Standard Model
Understanding photon collisions could aid search for physics beyond the Standard Model. Hot on the heels of proving an 87-year-old prediction that matter can be…
World’s Most Efficient Single-Photon Source Created Using Time Multiplexing
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science: Kwiat group achieves the most efficient single-photon production ever. Over the last two decades, tremendous advances have been…
BaBar Experiment Narrows Down the Search for Dark Photons
New analysis of data from the BaBar experiment rules out theorized particle’s explanation for muon mystery. In its final years of operation, a particle collider…
OLYMPUS Experiment Shows Two Photons Are Exchanged During Electron-Proton Interactions
OLYMPUS experiment sheds light on structure of protons, revealing that two photons, not one, are exchanged in electron-proton interactions. A mystery concerning the structure of…
Physicists Successfully Demonstrated the Squeezing of Individual Light Particles
Using an artificially constructed atom, known as a semiconductor quantum dot, a team of physicists has successfully demonstrated the squeezing of individual light particles. A…
Harvard and MIT Scientists Create Never-Before-Seen Form of Matter
By binding photons together to form molecules, scientists from Harvard and MIT have created a never-before-seen form of matter. Harvard and MIT scientists are challenging…
Using Photons for Quantum Computer Memory
In a new study, Yale scientists describe the use of photons for a quantum computer’s memory, creating an artificial medium in which photons repel photons,…
Encoded Photons Using Quantum Cryptography Sent a Record Distance
Quantum encryption systems, which encode signals into a series of single photons, have had trouble sending them along optical fibers. Until now, it has been…
Photons Traverse Optical Obstacles as Both a Wave and Particle Simultaneously
A photon can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the next, overlapping with its…
