A team led by a physicist from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) recently developed a new quantum theory that explains the “light-induced phase” of matter and predicts its novel functionalities.
The word meta implies an idea of surpassing or transcendence, and when applied to materials, metamaterials include artificially engineered substances that come with properties not found in the environment naturally.
An investigation done by scientists at the University of Oklahoma that were just published in Science Advances establishes the validity of the idea that information could be securely encoded and transmitted utilizing spatial correlations in quantum-entangled light beams.
Everyone encounters optical rays or beams, one of light’s purest forms, on a daily basis. Light may, however, take on much stranger shapes.
Powerful X-Ray beams were utilized by a research group headed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory to open a new perspective of materials crucial to the production and use of hydrogen.
Researchers have developed a new light-based computing scheme that uses a photonic integrated circuit to reduce the energy necessary for cryptocurrency and blockchain applications.
Researchers have developed “aperiodic photonic volume elements” (APVEs), microscopic voxels with particular refractive indices situated at predefined positions, to direct the flow of light in a controlled way.
A proton can be released locally in some molecules, the so-called photoacids, by being excited by light.
A Sandia National Laboratories research team has successfully shown the capability to dynamically direct light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources, marking a significant advancement in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics.
At the University of Southampton, a research group has displayed the fact that light could be moved within a distance that is smaller than its wavelength—a level of unparalleled accuracy.