When we look at the world around us, all that we see is thanks to light. It reflects, refracts, and interacts, carrying shape ...

In a mind-warping milestone experiment, scientists have been able to manipulate small numbers of individual photons of light, opening doors for the development of quantum technologies. This research, ...

Scientists shined a little light, literally, on the perplexing processes that govern atoms, in a new experiment that showed the effect of bouncing one photon of light off an atom. Atoms and particles ...

A new platform developed by Illinois Grainger engineers demonstrates the utility of a ytterbium-171 atom array in quantum ...

But getting quantum communication out of the lab and into the real world still poses serious technical challenges. A team of researchers from Germany and Canada tackled two of the biggest questions: ...

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In the era of instant data exchange and growing risks of cyberattacks, scientists are seeking secure methods of transmitting ...