Measurement of optically induced broken time-reversal symmetry in atomically thin crystals
TH Faraday rotation in monolayer WS2 First, we study the non-centrosymmetric WS2 monolayer. The excitation of TMD monolayers…
Direct tensor processing with coherent light
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Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…
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The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional…
Completely characterizing multimode second-order nonlinear optical quantum processes
Popoff, S. M. et al. Measuring the transmission matrix in optics: an approach to the study and control…
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure
Mak, K. F., Lee, C., Hone, J., Shan, J. & Heinz, T. F. Atomically thin MoS2: a new…
Quantum Physics May Predict the Next Financial Crash, New Study Finds
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New quantum sensors aim to detect hidden forces behind dark matter
For decades, you have heard scientists say that most of the universe is missing. They are not being…
Room-temperature spin-layer locking of exciton–polariton nonlinearities in a WS2 microcavity
Žutić, I., Fabian, J. & Sarma, S. D. Spintronics: fundamentals and applications. Rev. Mod. Phys. 76, 323 (2004).…
Scientists Just Discovered a Quantum Physics Loophole—And It Could Finally Unlock Interstellar Travel
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Quantum fusion of independent networks based on multi-user entanglement swapping
Xu, F., Ma, X., Zhang, Q., Lo, H. K. & Pan, J. W. Secure quantum key distribution with…
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Authors and Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marin Soljačić Department of Electrical…