A beam of light can cross the entire universe in no time at all
A photon can cross a billion light-years while accumulating no elapsed time along its path. Special relativity links…
ATLAS Collaboration Physicists Just Revealed the Discovery of an Entirely New Exotic Particle
Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration report the first observation of an exotic new particle, which could help deepen…
CERN Physicists Observe New Exotic Particle
Physicists with the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have observed the Bc*+ meson, an excited…
Trigger-based single photons generated on demand for quantum tech
Light already carries our phone calls, videos, and emails across the world through optical fibers, but the same…
New Low-Cost, Efficient Single-Photon Source for Powering Future Quantum Internet
Insider Brief Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a fiber-coupled single-photon source that generates single photons…
Researchers transmit photons from moving plane in major quantum leap
A consortium of German researchers has successfully transmitted individual photons from a moving aircraft, captured them in a…
Quantum Field Theory Clarifies Single-Photon Behavior at Beam Splitters
Insider Brief A new study uses quantum field theory to show that the electromagnetic field of a single…
China’s optical chip hits record speeds
Chinese scientists have produced what they claim is the world’s first ultra-high-parallel optical computing integrated chip, delivering a…