A new kind of mirror is emerging from quantum physics labs, one that exists not as a chunk of polished glass but as a ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

A new chip-based quantum memory uses 3D-printed “light cages” to store light in atomic vapor with high precision. Quantum ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Scientists are learning to engineer light in rich, multidimensional ways that dramatically increase how much information a ...

Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, absorb or reflect light, interacting very weakly with ordinary ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

Quantum entanglement happens when two particles become interconnected and share a single state. Scientists have measured how ...

A new chip-based quantum memory uses nanoprinted “light cages” to trap light inside atomic vapor, enabling fast, reliable ...