Evading Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Isn’t Easy
EPFL researchers, with colleagues at the University of Cambridge and IBM Research–Zurich, unravel novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion with significant…
Quantum Optics
World’s Most Efficient Single-Photon Source Created Using Time Multiplexing
Next-generation single-photon source for quantum information science: Kwiat group achieves most efficient single-photon production ever. Over the last two decades, tremendous advances have been made…
Scientists Realize Optical Version of Schrödinger’s Thought Experiment
An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature of…
Physicists Use Laser Light to Gain Access to Long-Lived Sound Waves
Yale scientists used laser light to gain access to long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids as the basis for information storage. The result was published…
Scientists Generate the Fastest Electric Current Ever Measured Inside a Solid Material
Using ultrafast laser flashes, physicists from the Max Planck Institute have generated the fastest electric current that has ever been measured inside a solid material….
Researchers Develop A Universal Quantum Gate
Scientists have now developed a universal quantum gate, which could become the key component in a quantum computer. Light particles completely ignore each other. In…
Physicists Test the Response Time of Electrons
Researchers from the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics generated for the first time visible flashes of light in attosecond dimensions. They dispatched the light-flashes to electrons…
Physicists Measure Photons in an Entangled NOON State
Physicists from the University of Toronto have successfully measured multiple photons in an entangled NOON state, overcoming a major challenge in the science of measurement…
New Method Uses Centrifugal Force to Decelerate Particles, Creates New Research Opportunities
A new method of using centrifugal force to decelerate particles makes it possible to produce relatively large quantities of cold molecules in a continuous flow,…