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Optimizing Lab-Scale Photonic Integration to Enable Quantum Applications

Photonic integration is an area of photonics that involves fabricating waveguides and devices onto a flat wafer to form an integrated system.

12 Feb 2020

Researchers Replicate the Formation of Galaxies Without Dark Matter

Scientists from the University of Strasbourg and the University of Bonn have replicated the development of galaxies in a universe without any sign of dark matter, for the first time.

10 Feb 2020

Ultra-Compact Bright Sources Created Based on Mercury Telluride Quantum Dots

Ultra-compact bright sources created based on mercury telluride (HgTe) quantum dots (QDs) that emit IR have been manufactured by researchers at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU, Vladivostok, Russia), in collaboration with researchers from the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), Hong Kong, China, and Australia.

7 Feb 2020

Transporting Entangled Quantum State Between Atom and Photon via Optic Fiber

In collaboration with researchers at Saarland University, physicists from LMU have now set a new record. They have been successful in transporting an entangled state between a photon and an atom through an optic fiber over a distance of up to 20 km.

27 Jan 2020

Transmitting Multiple Quantum Patterns of Twisted Light Over Legacy Fiber Link

Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and Huazhang University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China, have performed a new study, with interesting outcomes for secure transfer of data over optical fiber networks.

27 Jan 2020

Experiments Designed to Gain Better Insights into Quantum Mechanics

At the Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers have performed conducted a set of experiments to obtain better insights into quantum mechanics and to strive for advances in quantum computing and quantum networking, which could eventually find practical applications in cybersecurity and other fields.

24 Jan 2020

Study of Already Dying Massive Galaxy Could Reveal History of Universe

The farthest dying galaxy found out so far includes more than a trillion stars and is more massive compared to the Milky Way.

20 Jan 2020

Study Demonstrates Asteroseismology Potential of NASA’s TESS Satellite

In the constellation of Indus, a single bright star can be seen from the southern hemisphere, which has now offered innovative understanding about an ancient collision underwent by the Milky Way galaxy, early in its history, with another smaller galaxy known as Gaia-Enceladus.

14 Jan 2020

Study Reveals Intermediate-Mass Stars Will Probably Explode, Not Collapse

A research team, including several scientists from the Technical University of Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt) and GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), has experimentally established the properties of nuclear processes in matter that is 25 times hotter and 10 million times denser than the core of the Sun.

13 Jan 2020

Novel Detector Precisely Determines Oscillation Profile of Light Waves

An innovative type of detector that allows accurate determination of the oscillation profile of light waves has been developed by physicists in the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at LMU Munich and at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ).

13 Jan 2020