Credit: Ahmed Farag Ali and Aneta Wojnar There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment when chaos reveals…
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Boosting the response speed of quantum LEDs via an excitation memory effect
Image of an emitting micro-QLED (approximately 60 microns in diameter) that demonstrates fast response capabilities. Credit: Lu et al. Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are widely used electroluminescent devices that emit light…
Nuclear Physicists Create Scalable Quantum Circuits to Simulate Fundamental Physics
The Science Simulating matter in extreme conditions is critical to answering fundamental questions about nature. The Standard Model of particle physics provides a set of equations that can explain these mysteries. However,…
Metasurfaces entangle light and information in new study
Polarization and holographic information become entangled in a quantum hologram. Holographic letters demonstrate entanglement through polarization of paired photons. By selecting different polarizer orientations for one photon, specific letters in…
Topological insulator nanowires reveal superconducting effect, bringing topological quantum computing closer to reality
Non-local processes involving Cooper pairs and conductance matrix as a function of VL and VR. Credit: Nature Physics (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02806-y “This is the first study to explore how Andreev…
Quantum entanglement sensors could test quantum gravity
Artist’s concept of SUPREME-GQ. Credit: S. Shahriar / NASA Ask almost any physicist what the most frustrating problem is in modern-day physics, and they will likely say the discrepancy between…
Metasurface technology offers a compact way to generate multiphoton entanglement
Generating multiphoton entanglement with a tiny metasurface. Credit: Peking University Quantum information processing is a field that relies on the entanglement of multiple photons to process vast amounts of information.…