By taking two flakes of special materials that are just one atom thick and twisting them at high angles, researchers at the ...

Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.

A team of researchers from the University of Ottawa has made significant strides in understanding the ionization of atoms and ...

In this paper, the authors show high-fidelity entanglement of 97% between remote trapped ion memories, mediated by time-bin photons. The time-bin nature of photons removes polarization errors and ...

Optical illusions are fascinating visual riddles that deceive how we perceive reality. They deceive our minds into perceiving something that may not exist or misread the information in a photograph.

Scientists have unlocked a new way to control ionization, the process where atoms lose electrons, using specially designed light beams By leveraging optical vortex beams, light that carries angular ...

Researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have developed an optical sensor that could help solve this problem. Room thermostats are used in almost every building today to regulate the ...

Roland Winston, SB’56, SM’57, PhD’63—a pioneer in solar energy, engineering, and physics—died Feb. 8 at his home in ...