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Light-Induced Lattice Twisting can Photogenerate Giant Electric Current

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and collaborators at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new light-induced switch that twists the crystal lattice of the material, switching on a giant electron current that appears to be nearly dissipationless.

20 Jan 2021

New Chip-Based Photon Source is 100 Times More Efficient than Any Previous Device

Super-fast quantum computers and communication devices could revolutionize countless aspects of our lives -- but first, researchers need a fast, efficient source of the entangled pairs of photons such systems use to transmit and manipulate information.

18 Dec 2020

Researchers Find a Way to Create Ballistic Optical Materials

Electronics are increasingly being paired with optical systems, such as when accessing the internet on an electronically run computer through fiber optic cables.

15 Dec 2020

QRNG: Ten years of true random numbers

Humbolt University’s Nano-Optics group and PicoQuant celebrate the 10th anniversary of their jointly created Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG).

From Picoquant GmbH 14 Dec 2020

Light-Based Tool may Lead to Advanced Energy Technologies, Quantum Computers

According to scientists from the University of Michigan, the University of Regensburg, and the University of Marburg, an innovative tool that uses light to plot the electronic structures of crystals could demonstrate the potential of emerging quantum materials and may lead to the development of next-generation quantum computers and energy technologies.

4 Dec 2020

Researchers Measure Light-Matter Interactions in Nanophotonic Materials

Physicists at the University of Konstanz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), and the University of Regensburg have been successful in proving that ultrashort electron pulses undergo a quantum mechanical change in phase when they interact with light waves in nanophotonic materials.

25 Nov 2020