A small yet innovative experiment is taking place at CERN. Its goal is to test how the CERN-born optical timing signal—normally used in the Laboratory's accelerators to synchronize devices with ...

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New erbium molecular qubits work with telecom systems and silicon photonics, opening routes to quantum networks, sensors, and ...

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Entangled light proves quantum computers can do what classical methods can't - cut years of work into seconds, an enormous quantum advantage ...

Metamaterials are materials engineered to bend light in ways nature never intended. From invisibility cloaks to seeing ...

When Gabriel Lippmann collected the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics, he did so for an invention he himself admitted was of ...

A new experiment confirms that angular momentum conservation holds even when a single photon is split into two.

This experiment demonstrates Poisson’s Spot, a curious optical phenomenon where light bends around a circular object, ...

Company to Collaborate with Colorado State University on High-Energy Pulsed Laser Optics to Advance Fusion Energy Commercialization ...

The White Rabbit switch, a key component of the CERN-born open-source timing technology. (Image: CERN) A small yet innovative experiment is ...

More and more organisations are looking at the impact of quantum computers on cryptography. HPE and Cubiq present a PoC for ...