In an international scientific breakthrough, a Griffith University research team has been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 03, 2012 4.9 / 5 (69) 26 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- The field of adaptive optics is advancing in interest as technology makes it possible to use deformable mirrors for a number of applications in optoelectronics. Deformable mirrors usually make use of rigid ...

Physics - Optics & Photonics

Jul 15, 2010 4.9 / 5 (63) 5 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, fiber optics technology transports information in the form of classical data to homes and businesses. But researchers are currently working on ways to combine quantum data with the ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Jul 18, 2011 4.7 / 5 (51) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Sep 29, 2009 4.2 / 5 (48) 19

(PhysOrg.com) -- The remarkable feat of tying light in knots has been achieved by a team of physicists working at the universities of Bristol, Glasgow and Southampton, UK, reports a paper in Nature Physics this w ...

Physics - General Physics

Jan 17, 2010 4.8 / 5 (39) 4 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Carbon nanotubes have a lot of really nice properties that make them good for photonics," Laurent Vivien tells PhysOrg.com. Ever since the discovery that carbon nanotubes have photoluminescence when encaps ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jun 23, 2010 4.8 / 5 (38) 0 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 40 years, scientists have been using the radiation pressure of light to move and manipulate small objects in space. But until now, the movements have always been restricted to ...

Physics - General Physics

Sep 30, 2010 4.8 / 5 (37) 10 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Currently, the data stored in classical digital memories such as CDs, DVDs, and barcodes is read by classical light. But as a new study shows, using quantum light to read these classical memories ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Mar 14, 2011 4.8 / 5 (34) 5 |

Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 23, 2012 4.6 / 5 (34) 30 |

International collaboration including MPQ scientists sets a new value for the antiproton mass relative to the electron with unprecedented precision.

Physics - General Physics

Jul 28, 2011 4.8 / 5 (31) 30 |

Chaotic behavior is the rule, not the exception, in the world we experience through our senses, the world governed by the laws of classical physics.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Oct 07, 2009 4.8 / 5 (29) 1

Physicists have taken major step forward in the development of practical phonon lasers, which emit sound in much the same way that optical lasers emit light. The development should lead to new, high-resolution ...

Physics - General Physics

Feb 22, 2010 4.6 / 5 (30) 13 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- An old mathematical solution proposed as a prototype of the infamous ocean rogue waves responsible for many maritime catastrophes has been observed in a continuous physical system for the ...

Physics - General Physics

Aug 23, 2010 4.5 / 5 (29) 19 |

(Phys.org) —Albert Einstein famously described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at distance"; however, up until now experiments that examine this peculiar aspect of physics have been limited to relatively ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 09, 2013 4.7 / 5 (27) 24 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a new type of invisibility cloak that is simpler than previous designs and works for all colors of the visible spectrum, making it possible to cloak larger objects ...

Physics - General Physics

May 20, 2009 4.9 / 5 (26) 4