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Doping 2D Layered Materials with Quantum Dots Could Help Design Better Optoelectronic Devices

Harnessing the power of the sun and creating light-harvesting or light-sensing devices requires a material that both absorbs light efficiently and converts the energy to highly mobile electrical current. Finding the ideal mix of properties in a single material is a challenge, so scientists have been experimenting with ways to combine different materials to create "hybrids" with enhanced features.

11 Apr 2016

Researchers Show How Wigner Distribution can be Obtained for Twisted Light

Researchers from the University of Rochester have succeeded in demonstrating a new technique to obtain a complete picture of twisted light, in order to characterize its Wigner distribution, despite a number of experimental challenges.

4 Apr 2016

Scientists Measure Motion and Velocity of Unruly Atoms Using X-rays

X-rays have long been used to make pictures of tiny objects, even single atoms. Now a team of scientists has discovered a new use for X-rays at the atomic scale: using them like a radar gun to measure the motion and velocity of complex and messy groups of atoms.

1 Apr 2016

Polarization Helps Understand How Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons Affect Their Microcosmic Interactions

The proton sounds like a simple object, but it's not. Inside, there's a teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons with properties such as spin and "color" charge that contribute to the particle's seemingly simplistic role as a building block of visible matter.

29 Mar 2016

Rearranged Double-Slit Experiment Helps Study Light-Matter Interaction

The double-slit experiment is regarded among physicists as one of the most elegant experiments of all time. According to Nobel Prize laureate Richard Feynman, it encapsulates the entire mystery of quantum physics. It impressively demonstrates the wave nature of light and the phenomenon of interference.

22 Mar 2016

Breakthrough Results Help Improve Control of Light Filaments and Their Applications

Researchers at UPM have revealed the underlying order of chaos by observing very long and intense laser light beams and ionized matter in the so-called “light filaments”.

21 Mar 2016

Researchers Develop Fundamentally New Type of Memory Cell Based on Superconductors

A group of scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and from the Moscow State University has developed a fundamentally new type of memory cell based on superconductors - this type of memory will be able to work hundreds of times faster than the types of memory devices commonly used today, according to an article published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

17 Mar 2016

Delayed-Choice Experiments Bring Further Insights into Quantum Physics

Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the nature of light. Isaac Newton was certain that it consists of a stream of particles. His contemporary Christiaan Huygens, however, argued that light is a wave. Modern quantum physics says that both were right.

11 Mar 2016

Researchers Develop New Ultra-Bright Source of Single Photons

A new ultra-bright source of single photons - 15 times brighter than commonly used sources and emitting photons that are 99.5% indistinguishable from one another - has been developed by researchers from the CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, and Université Paris-Sud.

9 Mar 2016

Quantum Vitalscan Enables Medical Professionals to Triage Patients Suffering from Chest Pains

Quantum Imaging, a spinout from Leeds University, is working on a portable device dubbed Quantum Vitalscan that warrants a closer look in this week’s editorial.

8 Mar 2016

Quantum Optics News

Doping 2D Layered Materials with Quantum Dots Could Help Design Better Optoelectronic Devices

Researchers Show How Wigner Distribution can be Obtained for Twisted Light

Scientists Measure Motion and Velocity of Unruly Atoms Using X-rays

Polarization Helps Understand How Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons Affect Their Microcosmic Interactions

Rearranged Double-Slit Experiment Helps Study Light-Matter Interaction

Breakthrough Results Help Improve Control of Light Filaments and Their Applications

Researchers Develop Fundamentally New Type of Memory Cell Based on Superconductors

Delayed-Choice Experiments Bring Further Insights into Quantum Physics

Researchers Develop New Ultra-Bright Source of Single Photons

Quantum Vitalscan Enables Medical Professionals to Triage Patients Suffering from Chest Pains

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

LabOne Q: An Intuitive Software Framework for Scalable Quantum Computing

ORCA-Quest qCMOS Camera by Hamamatsu

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Repeat-Until-Success Algorithm for Quantum Gate Decomposition

Researchers Exploit the Color Centers in Diamond to Enhance Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Processes for NMR Applications

Application of Electro-Optic Phase Modulator in Pound-Drever Hall Technique for Laser Frequency Stabilization

Quantum Optics News

Quantum Development in Ireland: A Conversation with John Durcan, Chief Technologist, IDA Ireland

Advancing Quantum Scalability with New Qubit Method

Modified Newtonian Dynamics and the Search for a Ninth Planet

1STM Unveils the Secrets of Chiral Interfaces

2Breakthrough for Next-Generation Quantum Computing

3Exploring Black Hole-Level Scrambling in Chemical Reactions

4Exploring Quantum Mechanics with a Tiny Interferometric Sensor

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