Those of us who grew up watching Luke and Leia on screen have probably wondered at one point or another why we don’t have lightsabers. The basic reason why is because the photons that make up light do ...

Photons in relatively weak beams of light could be made to interact with each other by shining them through a piece of silicon with a specific set of voids cut through it. That is the conclusion of ...

Over the past several decades, researchers have been making rapid progress in harnessing light to enable all sorts of ...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute have developed an efficient new method to drive the quantum entanglement of photons, and demonstrated it by entangling a record number of photons. The technique ...

A single-photon switch uses a quantum emitter, such as a quantum dot or a superconducting qubit, coupled to a nanophotonic ...

For the first time, scientists have watched groups of three photons interacting and effectively producing a new form of light. In results published in Science, researchers suggest that this new light ...

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute have developed a way to produce a web of quantum entangled photons using a far more simple setup than usual. The key is a ...

Remarkably, the physics of the Josephson effect, describing the tunnel coupling of the two superconductors, dictates that photons within the same junction strongly interact with one another, in sharp ...

On and off: Better, simpler control of single-photon emissions opens the door to new platforms in quantum research. (Courtesy: art-skvortsova/iStockphoto) Researchers ...

The ATLAS Collaboration observed photons elastically scattering from other photons — an effect predicted by quantum electrodynamics over 80 years ago. Because the coupling at each photon–charged ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Chinese scientists have just set a record in quantum physics. For the first time, pairs of entangled photons have been beamed from a satellite in orbit to two receiving stations almost 1,500 miles ...