Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...

Scientists test Einstein’s quantum challenge with one atom, directly measuring when photon paths erase interference stripes.

Physicists have produced experimental evidence that anyons, exotic quasiparticles long thought to exist only in ...

Engineers have developed a method to create microscopic, ultra-smooth mirrors by triggering material stress to buckle thin ...

An experiment measuring a single atom's recoil confirmed that observing a particle destroys interference, settling the ...

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST; President and CEO: Karin Markides, in Onna Village, Okinawa) and Qubitcore Inc. (CEO: Ryuta Watanuki, Headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) ...

Trapped ion quantum computing represents one of the most promising approaches to realising scalable quantum processors. By confining electrically charged atoms using electromagnetic fields, ...

Pushing experimental boundaries: Aluminum fluoride (AlF) is the first stable “closed shell” molecule ever prepared in a magneto-optical trap and cooled to millikelvin temperatures. The AlF molecular ...

Devices that can confine individual electrons are potential building blocks for quantum information systems. But the electrons must be protected from external disturbances. RIKEN researchers have now ...