Quantum Ping-Pong: The New Era of Atomic Photon Control
Scientists have developed “quantum ping-pong”: Using a special lens, two atoms can be made to bounce a single photon back and forth with high precision….
Scientists have developed “quantum ping-pong”: Using a special lens, two atoms can be made to bounce a single photon back and forth with high precision….
The team at HZDR suggests improvements for an experiment aimed at investigating the boundaries of physics. Absolutely empty – that is how most of us…
A new technique based on advanced camera technology demonstrates a rapid and efficient way to reconstruct the full quantum state of entangled particles. Researchers from…
A cutting-edge experiment has unveiled the quantum dynamics underlying one of nature’s most essential processes. Using a complex cast of metal-studded pigments, proteins, enzymes, and…
Comparisons between optical clocks at PTB bolster the quest to detect potential interactions between ultralight dark matter and photons. Observations in astronomy suggest the presence…
Imperial physicists have recreated the famous double-slit experiment, which showed light behaving as particles and a wave, in time rather than space. In a groundbreaking…
Scientists at KAUST have demonstrated a simple method of modifying compact semiconductor lasers to make them more suitable for illumination and holography. Semiconductor technology enables…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…