Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understanding of the fundamental building blocks of the universe. They allow ...

Researchers at Argonne have discovered that superconducting nanowire photon detectors can also be used as highly accurate ...

Photons are particles of light, or waves, or something like that, right? [Mithuna Yoganathan] explains this conundrum in more detail than you probably got in your high school physics class. While ...

The rich history of research involving photons is celebrated in a supplement to this month's Nature Physics. This is the tenth in the series of Milestones supplements, preceded by others on such ...

Two-photon emission (2PE) is a process in which an electron transition between quantum levels occurs through the simultaneous emission of two photons. Two-photon emission is interesting because it ...

This means that scientists think of photons as behaving like both particles and waves, depending on how they're observed. Furthermore, photons are also understood as excitations in an ...

For the first time, physicists have created a one-dimensional gas made out of pure light, and they want to use it to study how photons, or particles of light, behave on a quantum level.