Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different ...

Physicists have engineered photons that behave as if they inhabit a space far richer than the familiar three dimensions, ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Take, for instance, quantum entanglement, which says that the state of one particle can be determined by examining the state ...

Tiny 3D-printed “light cages” are giving researchers a new way to catch and hold individual particles of light on a chip, a ...

Shaped quantum light is turning ordinary photons into powerful tools for the future of technology.

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

Einstein’s claim that the speed of light is constant has survived more than a century of scrutiny—but scientists are still ...

This episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast features Alex May, whose research explores the intersection of quantum ...

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