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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A research team from the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has made ...

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.

In the quest for ultra-secure, long-range quantum communication, two major challenges stand in the way: the unpredictable nature of atmospheric turbulence and the limitations of current optical ...

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

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 ...

This study reveals how optical vortex beams influence ionization, offering new insights for technology in imaging, particle ...