For over a century, light has both helped and limited our view of the ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Scientists achieve optical measurements at atomic scales using quantum electron tunneling, surpassing conventional microscopy limits by nearly 100,000 times with standard lasers.

Physicists are no longer content to let atoms blur into invisibility. By squeezing light into pulses that last just billionths of a billionth of a second and pairing them with cameras that tick at ...

Stanford physicists have engineered a sophisticated optical cavity capable of harvesting single photons from individual atoms ...

Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing low-energy electrons after X-ray excitation.

Copper atoms trapped in MXene nanochannels remove 94.9% of bisphenol A in 5 minutes by concentrating reactants and lowering the energy needed for breakdown.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, have directly observed how silicon solar cells can self ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...