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Absorption spectroscopy limited only by quantum noise has been demonstrated over a broad frequency range using laser frequency combs.

Coupling a silicon nitride membrane resonator with a gas of ultracold atoms offers a novel approach to controlling mechanical systems at the quantum level.

Modified photonic structures from the wings of weevil beetles set a new record for optical emission control.

New beam splitter techniques extend the world of precision experiments with matter waves.

The Airy plasmon is unique since it represents the only possible one-dimensional diffraction-free solution.

Although the quantum Rabi model is the simplest model describing the coupling of quantum light and matter, only now has an analytical solution been found.

Metamaterials can act as nonlinear mirrors, reflecting back an incoming electromagnetic wave at twice the frequency.

A new method to generate ultrabright single-mode biphotons using a backward-wave parametric oscillator is proposed.

When it comes to probing ultracold atoms in optical lattices, has direct imaging put Bragg diffraction out of business?

Electrons join the growing technology to build integrated quantum circuits that guide matter waves on a chip.

Photons (bosons) confined in a hollow waveguide containing an atomic gas could show spin-charge separation, which is more commonly associated with one-dimensional fermions.

Entanglement, a crucial resource in quantum information theory, can also improve communication over a classical channel.

Trions—one electron bound to two holes via Coulomb forces—can be observed in the optical spectra of doped carbon nanotubes.

A cloak that can make an object undetectable by ultrasonic water waves has been successfully demonstrated.

Light pulses injected into an array of waveguides form solitons in time and space.

Researchers achieve generation of stable and coherent optical rogue waves.

Evidence for radiation analogous to that predicted near black holes by Hawking has been found in the emission of optical filaments propagating through glass.

Observations in nanostructured gold films, impossible until now, confirm theoretical predictions about how optical energy is localized in strongly scattering disordered materials.

Cold atoms in optical cavities can undergo a transition to a liquid-crystalline state in which the positions of the atoms are determined by the photon field.

Networks of photonic devices with broken time-reversal symmetry may provide a way to create a quantum simulator to study strongly correlated systems.