A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Quantum computing has long promised to crack problems that defeat even the fastest supercomputers, but the hardware has ...

A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to ...

Imagine traveling through a city where the streets themselves change shape depending on how fast you drive down them. For ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

Scientists achieve optical measurements at atomic scales using quantum electron tunneling, surpassing conventional microscopy limits by nearly 100,000 times with standard lasers.

German scientists have laid the groundwork for the next generation of quantum technologies by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers have captured and controlled quantum uncertainty in real time using ultrafast squeezed light pulses (CREDIT: Light ...

Long before quantum mechanics existed, a scientist developed a powerful way of describing motion by drawing an analogy between particles and light.

Researchers from Wits University and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona show how controlling the structure of photons in space and time enables tailored quantum states for next-generation communication ...