Conventional light sources for fiber-optic telecommunications emit many photons at the same time. Photons are particles of light that move as waves.
A new study, completely carried out by scientists at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has come up with the most comprehensive analysis thus far of the intracluster light (ICL)—the diffuse and faint light—discharged by stars in galaxy clusters that are not gravitationally connected to any galaxy.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has exposed the once-concealed characteristics of the protostar inside the dark cloud L1527, offering new understandings concerning the birth of a new star.
Chirality is the breaking of reflection and inversion symmetries. Simply put, it is when an object's mirror images cannot be superimposed over each other.
An international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of Adelaide, have gathered new evidence about the energetic core of an active galaxy millions of lights years away by detecting neutrino particles emitted by it.
In the cosmos, highly charged ions are a usual form of matter. They can be found, for instance, in the sun and other stars. They are termed so because they have lost a lot of electrons and have a lot of positive charges.
For the first time, a team of scientists has detected rare earth elements formed by the merging of neutron stars.
Achieving scalability in quantum processors, sensors, and networks requires novel devices that are easily manipulated between two quantum states.
Using existing experimental and computational resources, a multi-institutional team has developed an effective method for measuring high-dimensional qudits encoded in quantum frequency combs, which are a type of photon source, on a single optical chip.
Australian researchers have engineered a quantum box for polaritons in a two-dimensional material, achieving large polariton densities and a partially ‘coherent’ quantum state.