Sound waves break light transmission reciprocity
New technique could advance optical communications that encode information in the orbital angular momentum of light
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Nanoparticles levitated by light exhibit non-reciprocal interactions
Tight control over interactions gives physicists a new platform for exploring collective quantum dynamics
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Anti-laser enables near-perfect light absorption
Researchers create a light trap in which a beam of light prevents itself from escaping
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Anti-reflection coating allows perfect light transmission
New technique completely eliminates wave reflections and could improve wireless reception as well as biomedical imaging techniques
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Helical light tells chiral molecules apart
New technique could have important applications for drug development, biochemistry and toxicology
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Meta-atoms act like road signs for light waves
Nonlinear dielectric nanostructures could control the flow of light in next-generation devices for information processing and communications
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Near-unipolar laser pulses could control qubits
A laser pulse that largely circumvents the inherent symmetry of light waves could be used to manipulate quantum information
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Microcavity could make a platform for quantum sensing
New work shows that the dynamical instabilities of a system can be exploited as a resource
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Photons stay entangled despite huge jump in frequency
New technique preserves quantum correlations between two photons even when the frequency of one is increased by 125 terahertz
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Quantum batteries harvest energy from light
Quantum mechanical effects enable more efficient energy-capture technology
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