Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

Japan has put a real ion-trap quantum device online, making it accessible through the cloud Japan has taken a practical step ...

Physicists are now using a tightly controlled laser and a cloud of ultracold atoms to imitate the behavior of electrons in solids, effectively building a quantum version of electronics out of light ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists-Dr. John Clarke (Professor Emeritus, University of California ...

Controlling light at dimensions thousands of times smaller than the thickness of a human hair is one of the pillars of modern ...

Polymer thin-film optical cavities boost the magnetic sensing sensitivity of nanodiamond quantum sensors nearly fivefold ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

A single photograph taken from orbit has managed to make a rare visual connection between the mundane life on Earth and the ...

Physicists have found a way to study the inner workings of Josephson junctions without using electronics at all.

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.