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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Using a technique based on electromagnetically induced transparency, MIT and Harvard scientists have achieved the ability to convert a laser beam into a stream of…
Physicists from Yale University have engineered a “random laser” which they believe will improve both processing time and the clarity of the images from devices…
The advent of a quantum internet, one based upon single photons used to encode and send information, which in turn is protected by quantum cryptography,…
A new study set to be published this week describes how physicists at the University of Vienna demonstrated in an experiment that the decision whether…
Roughly four years after Fermi began studying gamma-rays, a soon-to-be-published study documents interesting findings. It turns out that the Crab Nebula and other individual point…
In recent experiments, Scientists from the Max Planck Institute and ETH Zurich have transmitted single photons between the smallest antennas in the world, i.e. between…
In quantum mechanics, entanglement allows two or more particles separated in space to have the same physical properties, which are correlated. This means that if…