A dark point inside a beam of light should not be much of a traveler. Yet in a new experiment, some of those points appeared ...

In the famous double-slit experiment, an interference pattern consisting of dark and bright bands emerges when a beam of light hits two narrow slits. The same effect has also been seen with particles ...

An international team of researchers from Leibniz University Hannover (Germany) and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow (United Kingdom) has disproved a previously held assumption about the ...

Understanding how atoms collectively interact with light is important for both fundamental studies and the design of light–matter interfaces in quantum technologies. Over the past decades, many ...

"When an experiment turns out very different from what is expected, scientists start questioning previous assumptions and look for new explanations," says Kues. They jointly developed their new theory ...