With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fiber optic cables. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and communication technology.

Understanding atom-light interaction in multi-level settings is an extremely difficult problem, and up to now it has eluded both theorists and experimentalists. Rey explains, ...

Scientists in Vienna have built a device in which light can be transmitted in two different glass fiber cables. The quantum state of one single atom decides, which way the light is supposed to go.

The convergence of photonic quantum computing and neutral atom arrays charts a bold and expansive trajectory for the future ...

With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fibre optic cables at the Vienna University of Technology. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and ...

The atom cloud becomes more transparent, letting light through instead of scattering it. To observe the effect, Margalit and colleagues beamed light through a cloud of lithium atoms , measuring ...

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The team observed that the self-organization of their atom-light system breaks symmetry, as atoms spontaneously move either to the positively or negatively signed antinodes of the cavity field.

“Atom lithography has long demonstrated feature sizes smaller than the diffraction limit of light,” says Thywissen. “What is new in our research is that the spacing between the features can also be ...

Two teams at the National Bureau of Standards have built ”atom traps” that can stop in its tracks a beam of neutral atoms moving 1,000 meters a second. The experiments, which use beams of ...

Yoonsu Park and his team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have devised a light-driven reaction that replaces an oxygen atom with a nitrogen atom (Science 2024, DOI ...