Quantum computing has long promised to crack problems that defeat even the fastest supercomputers, but the hardware has struggled to scale beyond fragile laboratory prototypes. A new generation of ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...

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 ...

Toward the industrial-scale construction of quantum computers? At Columbia University, a team led by Sebastian Will and Nanfang Yu has successfully arranged 1000 strontium atoms. This feat ...

Applied physicists have created a photon router that could plug into quantum networks to create robust optical interfaces for noise-sensitive microwave quantum computers. Applied physicists at the ...

Researchers create a nanoscale light switch operating 10,000 times faster than electronic transistors, opening possibilities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MIT and Harvard scientists have built the world’s most precise optical clock, surpassing the quantum limit with entangled atoms ...

Engineers built a nanoscale optical device that uses voltage to control light's phase and intensity, advancing quantum communication and compact optical technologies. The device, developed by ...

Imagine shining a flashlight into a material and watching the light bend backward—or in an entirely unexpected direction—as ...

Researchers from Regensburg and Birmingham have overcome a fundamental limitation of optical microscopy. With the help of quantum mechanical effects, they succeeded for the first time in performing ...