Here’s an exercise for you: type “crystals” into your favorite search engine and see what you get. If you’re anything like us, you’ll get a bunch of pseudoscientific posts about the healing power of ...

Every new generation of phone display, television screen and solar panel is the result of precision optics experiments, which use lasers and other light sources to measure the optical properties of ...

This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have demonstrated a continuously operating optical fiber made of thin air. The most common optical fibers are strands of glass that tightly confine ...

Researchers at the Würzburg site of the Cluster of Excellence ctd.qmat have succeeded in transferring the topological quantum Hall and spin Hall effects to a hybrid light-matter system by harnessing ...

Convention has it that quantum mechanics and thermodynamics cannot be true simultaneously - so say scientists at the University of Twente ("UT"), The Netherlands. But now, in a new journal paper, UT ...

Quantum entanglement experiments hinge on two things: the optics chain, which sets the quality of the entangled state, and the single-photon detectors, which define how reliably you can measure it.

Newswise — As an important form of optical micromanipulation, optical particle transport utilizes phase gradient forces to drive particles along predefined trajectories. Leveraging its advantages of ...

The bigger the quantum superposition, the bigger the proverbial Schrödinger's cat. (dennisvdw/iStockphoto/Getty Images) ...