A device smaller than a grain of dust is emerging as a surprisingly powerful candidate to reshape how quantum computers are ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...

In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Photons are ...

In lab tests, the system successfully transmitted quantum information over 60 kilometers of optical fiber—the typical distance between two network nodes. That means more users could share secure ...

A project at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has studied how the positioning of quantum dots on photonic structures can be improved. This small detail can have big ...

Researchers at Harvard have created a groundbreaking metasurface that can replace bulky and complex optical components used in quantum computing with a single, ultra-thin, nanostructured layer. This ...