Light is usually treated as something simple, a clean beam that either shines or does not. At the quantum level, however, ...

"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...

Carbon nanotubes are moving from lab curiosities to workhorse components in quantum hardware, and one of the most striking examples is their use as single-photon light sources. By exploiting their ...

A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...

Tiny tubes of carbon that emit single photons from just one point along their length have been made in a deterministic manner ...

Researchers created carbon nanotubes that emit one photon from a single controllable point, enabling temperature quantum ...

Researchers find a way to purify photons, clearing major hurdles for faster quantum computers and ultra-secure networks.

Physicists manage to protect quantum information from noise using skyrmions, a key advance for networks and quantum computing ...

Photons as data carriers: Encoding information in time bins A central innovation lies in so-called "time-bin encoding." In this method, the information is carried by the precise arrival time of each ...

A research team from the University of Stuttgart in Germany recently made a breakthrough when they teleported quantum information between distant origins. The paper was published in the journal Nature ...

A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University ...