Quantum computers are surprisingly random – but that’s a good thing
Shuffling quantum objects is much stranger than shuffling classical ones Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Quantum computers can produce randomness…
On-chip programmable nonlinearity | Nature Photonics
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Resolving the phase of Fano resonance wave packets with photoelectron frequency-resolved optical gating
Understanding and controlling electron dynamics at ultrafast timescales is a cornerstone of modern photonics and quantum control. Photoionization…
Single-shot spatiotemporal vector field measurements of petawatt laser pulses
Physical encoder Most ultraintense lasers approximate an ideal top-hat intensity profile in the near field, which when focused…
Plasmonic biosensor enabled by resonant quantum tunnelling
Self-illuminating metasurface design Our metasurface is based on an interconnected mesh of nanowire nanoantennas that are used as…
X-ray parametric down-conversion reveals EUV-polariton
Experimental setup We performed the experiment at the large solid-angle spectrometer of beamline ID20 at ESRF26. The setup’s…
Quantum embezzlement is hiding in known one-dimensional materials: Study
In quantum physics, entanglement links particles across space in ways that defy logic. However, there’s a lesser-known phenomenon…
Krylov diagonalization of large many-body Hamiltonians on a quantum processor
Theory of Krylov quantum diagonalization KQD consists of two main steps. The first is a quantum subroutine to…
“Light from Absolute Nothingness”: Scientists Achieve Historic First by Creating Photons in a Virtual Quantum Vacuum
IN A NUTSHELL 🌟 Scientists at the University of Oxford simulated light creation from nothing by disturbing the…
Ångström-tunable polarization-resolved solid-state photon sources
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