They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of thousands more. Quantum computers will only surpass classical machines if they ...

By changing the physical structure of gold at the nanoscale, researchers can drastically change how the material interacts ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new ...

The facility's director says the investment will strengthen national security missions while creating local jobs.

Quantum computing has long been constrained by the messy reality of controlling fragile qubits with bulky, power-hungry ...

Time is almost up on the way we track each second of the day, with optical atomic clocks set to redefine the way the world ...

Scientists used optical diagnostic techniques to 'see inside' solid-fuel ramjets, one of the most extreme engines in the world.

Stanford physicists have engineered a sophisticated optical cavity capable of harvesting single photons from individual atoms.

Rocket Lab launched a South Korean disaster-monitoring satellite from New Zealand on Thursday (Jan. 29), about six weeks ...

A new way of capturing light from atoms could finally unlock ultra-powerful, million-qubit quantum computers. After decades of effort, researchers may finally be closing in on a practical path toward ...

For decades, bulky spectrometers have been the main tools for understanding how things are made of chemicals (a thing called composition). Spectrometers are a type of lab equipment that uses prisms or ...