Physicist Pan Jianwei and his team said their study helped to close the gap between the experimental and real-world ...

They combined optical tweezers with metasurfaces to trap more than 1,000 atoms, with the potential to capture hundreds of ...

Inserting, removing or swapping individual atoms from the core of a molecule is a long-standing challenge in chemistry. This process, called skeletal editing, can dramatically speed up drug discovery ...

While quantum computers continue to slowly grind towards usefulness, some are pursuing a different approach—analog quantum ...

Most people know that you can't see atoms... or can you? With this special microscope, scientists actually can! In the late ...

A new light-based breakthrough could help quantum computers finally scale up. Stanford researchers created miniature optical cavities that efficiently collect light from individual atoms, allowing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atom camera Free-range atoms, roaming around without restrictions, have been captured on camera for the first time – enabling ...

A microscopic clump of sodium has become the largest object ever to be observed as a wave, improving upon previous records by thousands of atoms. Quantum physics defines particles in terms of waves, ...

…and Toshiba-Single Quantum collaboration doubles range of secure QKD communications. Quione glass cell with strontium gas cloud in the center. Quantum physics needs high-precision sensing techniques ...

Using the latest in aberration-corrected electron microscopy, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and their colleagues have obtained the first images that ...

Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA published a step-by-step framework for determining the ...