Researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge and Toshiba Research Europe have produced a new way to produce entangled photons, a key technique for quantum encryption and computing. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A yin-yang-like shape made of pink and green dots shows two particles in a state of quantum entanglement Scientists have used a ...

From mobile phones and banking systems to aircraft, ships and emergency services, much of modern life relies on precise ...

Entangled photons can be used to improve imaging and measurement techniques. A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF in Jena has developed ...

Quantum entanglement has long been framed as a strange communication channel between particles, but the latest experiments suggest it can do something more concrete and practical: make light itself ...

Quantum manipulation: The squeezer – an optical parametric oscillator (OPO) that uses a nonlinear crystal inside an optical cavity to manipulate the quantum fluctuations of light – is responsible for ...

Researchers propose an unconventional way to generate light made from entangled photons. In the graphic above, photons meet the electrons of a helium atom, which then emits two entangled photons.

Chaotic speckle: a pattern resulting from light being scrambled by a complex medium such as a multimode optical fibre. (Courtesy: M Malik and S Goel) Light passing through a disordered (or “complex”) ...

Driving late at night, you come upon a red light and stop the car. You lift your hand wearily to block the red glow streaming through your windshield. Suddenly, both the green and yellow lights come ...

Researchers have revealed the necessary conditions for the robust transport of entangled states of two-photon light in photonic topological insulators, paving the way the towards noise-resistant ...