An Ultrafast Glimpse of Nanoscopic Aerosols

18th October 2019 by Leave a Comment

Exploration the initial consequences of the interaction of light with molecules on the surface of nanoscopic aerosols

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Quantum Optics in Topological Waveguides

6th September 2019 by Leave a Comment

New principle for quantum simulators in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide

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Light-Wave Dynamic Control of Magnetism

27th June 2019 by Leave a Comment

For the first time ever, physicists changed the magnetic moment of a material using a light wave within one femtosecond

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Quantum Distillery for Light

25th April 2019 by Leave a Comment

Munich physicists develop a technique to extract pure single photons

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High-Flux Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy

6th February 2019 by Leave a Comment

New approach reduces the acquisition time for the analysis of multidimensional electron motions by a factor of 1000

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A New Home for Optical Solitons

25th January 2019 by Leave a Comment

Munich physicists generated dissipative solitons in passive, free-space resonators for the first time

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Flying Optical Cats for Quantum Communication

21st January 2019 by Leave a Comment

Implementation of Schrödinger’s paradoxical experiment employing an entangled atom-light state

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Brief Reflections from a Plasma Mirror

7th December 2018 by Leave a Comment

Plasmas consisting of relativistic electrons are used to generate highly intense attosecond laser pulses

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Coupling Photons to Rydberg Atoms

12th November 2018 by Leave a Comment

Photon-based quantum logic gates for future quantum computers

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Absolute Duration of the Photoelectric Effect

20th September 2018 by Leave a Comment

The photoemission from the tungsten conduction band can proceed faster than previously anticipated

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