For the first time, physicists have simulated what objects moving near the speed of light would look like — an optical ...

Researchers in Germany have now directly observed this wobble with the highest precision yet thanks to a large ring laser gyroscope they developed for this purpose. The instrument, which is located in ...

Cornell researchers have built a programmable optical chip that can change the color of light by merging photons, without ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

Atomic, molecular and optical physics lies at the intersection of quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory, providing the fundamental framework for our understanding of matter and light.

When optical materials (molecules or solid-state semiconductors) are embedded in tiny photonic boxes, known as optical microcavities, they form hybrid light-matter states known as polaritons. Most of ...

USC engineers have developed an optical system that routes light autonomously using thermodynamic principles. Rather than ...

Caltech physicists report they have created the largest qubit array assembled to-date: 6,100 neutral-atom qubits trapped in a ...

On Tuesday 7 October the winner(s) of the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced. The process of choosing the winners is highly secretive, so looking for hints about who will be this year’s ...

Frenchman Michel H Devoret as well as his longtime American collaborator John M Martinis and the Briton John Clarke were on ...

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new spectroscopic ...