Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a cloud of atoms can be used as a receiver to pick up video transmissions. The team demonstrated this ...

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

Researchers at the University of Warsaw have unveiled a breakthrough method for detecting and precisely calibrating terahertz ...

Atoms generally whizz around with very high levels of energy – and it is this degree of activity that allows us to use the concept of temperature. When atoms have very low energy levels, they move ...

Wiggling atoms in new quantum materials could lead to more efficient electronics that are smaller and faster. These new materials have surprising properties and could be key elements for ...

Micromachines could be used to trap super-cool atoms in accelerometer, gyro and clock chips. “Over the past four years, we have done the fundamental research into atom chips, said Dr Michael Kraft of ...

A new frontier in nanoscale and flexible electronics has emerged in the last decade, based on thin materials consisting of just a few layers of atoms. However, unlike conventional semiconductor ...

IBM has charged individual atoms to make ions, then reversed the process. Both states are stable, potentially allowing data to be stored. The work was done using a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) ...