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

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

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.

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

New discovery unlocks real-time insight into quantum behavior, paving way for advanced sensing and quantum technologies.

Researchers at the ArQuS Laboratory of the University of Trieste (Italy) and the National Institute of Optics of the Italian ...

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...

This video explores the fundamental components of an atom, including protons, neutrons, and electrons, challenging the ...