Light can tell you a lot about what matter is doing. Visible light shows a surface. X-rays reveal hidden structure. Infrared ...

Physicists have finally built a microscope that can watch superconducting electrons move in real time, and the picture is far ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

Light can do more than illuminate a material. In some cases, it can temporarily change how electrons move through it.

Scientists have demonstrated that light alone can reversibly control magnetism in a topological material. Researchers at the ...

A light has emerged at the end of the tunnel in the long pursuit of developing quantum computers, which are expected to ...

University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

Light and matter can remain at separate temperatures even while interacting with each other for long periods, according to ...

Highly anticipated: Scientists at the University of Arizona have demonstrated a method to capture and manipulate quantum uncertainty in real time using rapid pulses of light, marking what they ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Quantum physics paints a strange picture of the world, one filled with spooky connections, unsettling uncertainties ...