A 'boom' of light that appears when a particle exceeds the speed of light set by a medium could, in other contexts, signal a ...

Researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have reported the first ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

A new study takes the GHZ paradox, which describes how quantum theory can't be described by local realistic descriptions, to ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

ALICE collaboration identifies three-phase process that allows particles to form despite energetically unfavourable ...

Using the Super Proton Synchrotron, the team created beams of electron-positron pairs and passed them through a meter-long region of plasma. This setup served as a scaled laboratory version of a ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

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