University of Illinois Physics Professor Paul Kwiat and members of his research group have developed a new tool for precision measurement at the nanometer scale in scenarios where background noise and ...

A career in optical physics or engineering means knowing about the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and its detection by instruments. Since the discovery that ...

A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the ...

Light is well known to exhibit both wave-like and particle-like properties, as imaged here in this 2015 photograph. What's less well appreciated is that matter particles also exhibit those wave-like ...

New simulations tilt the scales for competing theories about excess gamma ray light at the center of the galaxy ...

Here, a calcite crystal is struck with a laser operating at 445 nanometers, fluorescing and displaying properties of birefringence. Unlike the standard picture of light breaking into individual ...

Ether (or aether) is a term used in ancient mythology and medieval science to denote the matter that fills in the void of the universe. In the 19th century, physicists borrowed the concept to depict a ...

In 1964, physicist John Bell formulated what became known as Bell's Theorem, showing that if quantum mechanics is correct, ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Supersolids are a form of quantum matter that exhibits properties of a superfluid ...