In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have demonstrated the Hong–Ou–Mandel (HOM) effect with up to 12 ...

Fraunhofer ILT in Aachen has developed a highly complex laser-optical system for a quantum computer currently under construction at the 5th Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart. This ...

A new laser-optical system uses 2,000 controllable beams to precisely position atoms, enabling key logic processes in a ...

The ozone layer’s most famous wound opened over Antarctica, but the damage may have started much earlier, and somewhere else ...

Phase transformations—in which a material changes from one crystal structure to another, thereby acquiring dramatically ...

Illustration of cesium atoms entering an ordered state after being chilled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute ...

What if the universe doesn't end in fire or ice—but by tearing itself apart? The terrifying Big Rip theory suggests that an ...

Engineered copper nanoclusters steer CO2 electroreduction away from unwanted formate and toward methanol, advancing cleaner ...

UB physicist Jamir Marino earns $1.1 million in Defense Department grants to model Rydberg atoms and advance neutral-atom ...

Imperial researchers are now planning these systems as part of an international push to create a new generation of quantum ...

A reader (and astronomy expert) gets to grips with this one, pointing out that Earth’s future fate is still uncertain – and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...