Light moving through a tiny silicon structure does not look dramatic. It slips down narrow waveguides etched onto a chip, ...

Researchers have shown that a single photon carrying quantum information can travel down kilometers of noisy real-world fiber ...

Physicists have developed a spectral-filtering technique that strips away unwanted extra photons from quantum light sources, ...

A Foundation of Scientific Integrity: The CAS Pedigree The primary differentiator for Labor in a crowded global market is its “Research-First” DNA. Born from the Beijing Branch of the Chinese Academy ...

In physics, some waves behave in a surprising way: instead of spreading out and fading, they hold their shape as they travel ...

Research findings are available online in the journal Science Advances. The original story “ Physicists use pulses of light ...

Chip-scale laser controls trapped ions for quantum clocks and qubits, enabling portable, scalable systems with high fidelity ...

The hope for quantum computers is that the devices will be able to solve complex tasks such as predicting how chemicals react or cracking encrypted text. One of the main reasons that the machines are ...

Researchers at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have, for the first time, measured the temporal duration of ...

Bright background light can do more than clutter a quantum experiment. It can wash out the very features that make quantum ...

Scientists experimentally confirmed what we’ve known to be true for half a century—darkness can “travel” faster than light.

(Aitor Diago/Moment/Getty Images) For the first time, physicists have observed that 'holes' in light can move faster than the ...