Search results for spontaneous coherence

Optics & Photonics Feb 28, 2020

Reconfigurable chiral microlaser by spontaneous symmetry breaking

Coherent light sources are one of the most crucial foundations in both scientific disciplines and advanced applications. As a prominent platform, ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode (WGM) microcavities have witnessed significant ...

Quantum Physics Feb 18, 2020

Stability by fluctuation: topological materials outperform through quantum periodic motion

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered that applying vibrational motion in a periodic manner may be the key to preventing dissipations of the desired electron states that would make ...

Optics & Photonics Jan 16, 2020

An electrically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor green laser

Scientists and Engineers have used surface-emitting semiconductor lasers in data communications, for sensing, in FaceID and within augmented reality glasses. In a new report, Yong-Ho Ra and a research team in the departments ...

Quantum Physics Jan 10, 2020

Unexpected twist in a quantum system

Physicists at ETH Zurich have observed a surprising twist in a quantum system caused by the interplay between energy dissipation and coherent quantum dynamics. To explain it, they found a concrete analogy to mechanics.

Optics & Photonics Jan 9, 2020

Randomness opens the gates to the land of attophotography

One of the last obstacles hindering the photography and filming of processes occurring on a scale of attoseconds, i.e. billionths of a billionth of a second, has disappeared. The key to its removal lies in the random nature ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 29, 2019

Quantum dot lasers move a step closer with electric-pumping development

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way to make Colloidal Quantum Dots produce laser light with the help of an electric field.

General Physics Nov 5, 2019

Study observes anomalous decay of coherence in a dissipative many-body system

In quantum physics, some of the most interesting effects are the result of interferences. Decoherence, or loss of coherence, occurs when a quantum system eventually loses the ability to produce interferences, due to external ...

Social Sciences Sep 2, 2019

Why do people believe in curses?

Strictly Come Dancing, the TV show which pairs celebrities with professional dancers to compete in a ballroom dancing competition, has apparently been the cause of a number of divorces, break-ups, and scandals. This "Strictly ...

Biochemistry Aug 30, 2019

Using bacteria from hot springs, biochemist studies RNA splicing in humans

About 70 percent of the human genome doesn't code for anything. When it's transcribed to RNA—the instructions our cells follow when they make proteins—most of the message doesn't contain any useful information. As West ...

Optics & Photonics Aug 22, 2019

Generation of light in a photon-number quantum superposition

Physicists at C2N have demonstrated for the first time the direct generation of light in a state that is simultaneously a single photon, two photons, and no photon at all. They showed that the same kind of light emitter used ...

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