Physics senior Ruijian Wang has been awarded the Fall 2025 Stephen Halley White Undergraduate Research Award from the Department of Physics for his outstanding research in quantum optics and ...

Scientists have created tiny “optical tornadoes” — swirling beams of light that twist like miniature whirlwinds — using a ...

In the increasingly digital world, the demand for faster, more efficient and miniaturized optical devices is ever-growing.

Quantum optics and x‐ray photonics represent rapidly advancing realms of research that intertwine the principles of quantum mechanics with the unique properties of high‐energy photons. These fields ...

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A team at Japan’s RIKEN research institute has figured out how to flip a quantum switch that controls the flow of phonons, ...

Superconducting qubits—bits of quantum information—have been widely considered a promising technology for moving quantum ...

A tiny silica bead, just 100 nanometers across, sits suspended in a vacuum and vibrates under the grip of laser light. Those ...

In a recent gift to the Quantum Scholars program, local optics company Meadowlark Optics is generously supporting $70,000 in scholarships for undergraduates exploring the quantum field at the ...

Invisible infrared waves are emitted by IR LEDs and detected by photodiodes to enable devices like remotes, automatic ...

Designing quantum experiments Left: the AI takes the first three from a class of target quantum states and produces a Python ...