A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum entanglement.

Light-based quantum technologies, such as quantum communication and photonic quantum computing, require reliable sources of ...

MIT researchers have built a nanoscale photonic device shaped like a tiny ski jump that launches laser light directly off a ...

Scientists have developed a new way to manufacture semiconductor quantum dots that emit faster ...

Physicists have forced light to behave like electrons trapped in a magnetic field, reproducing the quantum Hall effect with photons for the first time. The experiment, carried out on an optical fiber ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Optical fiber While the idea of a quantum internet has a huge amount of potential, getting it hooked up to the regular old ...

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Scientists have used high-performance computing at large scales to analyze a quantum photonics experiment. In specific terms, this involved the tomographic reconstruction of experimental data from a ...

The 5.4 km free-space quantum communication link between the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council Canada, where real-time atmospheric turbulence measurements were conducted to train ...

Quantum optics investigates the behaviour of light and its interactions with matter at the quantum level, revealing phenomena that are absent in classical descriptions. This field encompasses studies ...

Scientists at Paderborn University have for the first time used high-performance computing (on the right in the picture the Paderborn supercomputer Noctua) to analyse a quantum photonics experiment on ...