R esearchers in Birmingham have created the first image of a photon, a lemon-shaped particle of light emitted from the ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Scientists can now snap ultra-powerful laser pulses in one shot. RAVEN reveals distortions instantly, unlocking breakthroughs ...

A computational paradigm that can accurately simulate interactions between powerful laser beams and quantum fluctuations in a ...

In 1905, Albert Einstein first proposed that light is also made of particles, and in 1926, American chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis coined the term “photon” for such particles.

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but UK physicists have now calculated their wave function to ...

While gluons are responsible for generating most of the visible mass in the universe, their role inside nuclei remains poorly ...

But axions were pushed aside as the WIMPs hypothesis gained more steam. Back-of-the-envelope calculations showed that the ...

Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller ...

If photons possess more quantum states than expected, it would overhaul our understanding of all particle physics – and now physicists have identified a way to test this radical idea in an ...

Light's quantum behavior is well established, with over 100 years of experiments showing it can exist in both wave and particle form.But our fundamental understanding of this quantum nature is ...

Light's quantum behavior is well established, with over 100 years of experiments showing it can exist in both wave and particle form.But our fundamental understanding of this quantum nature is ...