Quantum optics is a well-established field that spans from fundamental physics to quantum information science. In the coming decade, areas including computation, communication and metrology are all ...

This opens the door to a new way of doing science, one in which humans are not the sole architects of experimentation. Artificial intelligence has begun to tackle a task once thought to be uniquely ...

A team of physicists has uncovered a hidden topological structure within one of the most widely used sources of quantum ...

Who’s who: The quantum Alice in Wonderland would like to understand whether the many “Twindeldum-Twindeldees” she sees are really identical or not, and uses the new interferometer for this purpose.

A property of laser light first predicted in 1963 by the future Nobel laureate Roy Glauber has been verified by physicists in Italy. Marco Bellini and colleagues from the University of Florence have ...

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