Research reveals how close human vision comes to sensing the smallest possible unit of light. Here’s why that matters for ...

A team of researchers from the University of Stuttgart and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg led by Prof. Stefanie Barz (University of Stuttgart) has demonstrated a source of single photons ...

A long-standing bottleneck in photonic quantum technology may finally be easing. Researchers in Germany ...

A breakthrough optical design allows quantum computers to read information in parallel, a key step toward building ...

Some things are easier to achieve if you're not alone. As researchers from the University of Rostock, Germany have shown, this very human insight also applies to the most fundamental building blocks ...

Two physicists at the University of Konstanz are developing a method that could enable the stable exchange of information in quantum computers. In the leading role: photons that make quantum bits "fly ...

Another day, and another artificial intelligence chipmaker is raking in millions of dollars in funding. Today it’s a startup called Neurophos Inc., which has just closed on an oversubscribed ...

The first direct visualization of the shape of a photon has been created. These particles of light are impossible to photograph, but physicists at the University of Birmingham have now calculated ...

For photosynthesis, one photon is all it takes. Only a single particle of light is required to spark the first steps of the biological process that converts light into chemical energy, scientists ...

A new approach to quantum light emitters generates a stream of circularly polarized single photons, or particles of light, that may be useful for a range of quantum information and communication ...