Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

A persistent group of scientists at the University of Warsaw have accomplished the impossible by creating a hologram of a solitary particle of light, reports Business Insider.

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking on-chip quantum memory platform using 3D-nanoprinted hollow-core waveguides called ...

Computers benefit greatly from being connected to the internet, so we might ask: What good is a quantum computer without a quantum internet? The secret to our modern internet is the ability for data ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Now, two unrelated-but-similar experiments confirm that, in a double-slit experiment, detection of a photon’s path (its ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...