“Carbon nanotubes are the only quantum emitters that can emit single photons at room temperature and also at wavelengths used for telecommunications,” said Yuichiro Kato of the RIKEN Center for ...
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How NASA learned to sail on sunlight

Light has momentum, and in space that matters. This video explains how solar sailing works, from the accidental discovery ...
"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...
Light is usually treated as something simple, a clean beam that either shines or does not. At the quantum level, however, ...
Researchers created carbon nanotubes that emit one photon from a single controllable point, enabling temperature quantum ...
"Dark photon" theory says light's interference patterns may emerge from quantum particles, not waves, upending centuries of ...
Researchers find a way to purify photons, clearing major hurdles for faster quantum computers and ultra-secure networks.
A new theory of "dark photons" attempted to explain a centuries-old experiment in a new way this year, in an effort to change ...
A novel dye-sensitized photocatalyst developed at Science Tokyo enables the capture of long-wavelength visible light for ...
A new discovery shows that messy, stray light can be used to clean up quantum systems instead of disrupting them. University ...
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