For more than a century, thermodynamics has described how heat flows and engines run, while quantum mechanics has ruled the strange behavior of atoms and photons. Physicists have long suspected that ...

Light is usually treated as something simple, a clean beam that either shines or does not. At the quantum level, however, ...

For the first time, scientists have observed the iconic Shapiro steps, a staircase-like quantum effect, in ultracold atoms.

A new type of lidar is allowing physicists to study cloud tops at a resolution 100 to 1,000 times higher than before.

Important instruments for neuroscience and medical diagnostics, optically pumped magnetometers measure responses of polarized atoms to produce information about the low-frequency external field. They ...

More than 200 years ago, Count Rumford showed that heat isn’t a mysterious substance but something you can generate endlessly ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory and collaborators have developed a new type of lidar—a laser-based remote-sensing ...

Xcimer's Phoenix system will be fully complete in H1 2026, Xcimer Energy Co-founder and CEO Conner Galloway said. Phoenix is on-schedule and on-budget, Galloway said in the briefing, also attended by ...

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

From frozen bonfires to quantum physics, why light still matters to our hopes, our science and our long Alaska winters.

Dr. Tammy Ma, head of fusion research at LLNL, said, “The transition from basic research to power plant development requires ...