Measurement of optically induced broken time-reversal symmetry in atomically thin crystals
TH Faraday rotation in monolayer WS2 First, we study the non-centrosymmetric WS2 monolayer. The excitation of TMD monolayers…
Direct tensor processing with coherent light
Cichocki, A. et al. Tensor decompositions for signal processing applications: from two-way to multiway component analysis. IEEE Signal…
Self-compressed waveform-stable light transients enabling water-window attosecond spectroscopy
We first demonstrate the creation and field-resolved characterization of light transients, focusing on generating sub-cycle pulses. For this…
A potential quantum leap — Harvard Gazette
The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional…
Material system enhances superconducting qubits
RESEARCH BRIEFINGS 12 November 2025 In the development of large-scale quantum processors, material improvements yield rapid progress because…
On-site enhancement and control of spin-forbidden dark excitons in a plasmonic heterostructure
Mak, K. F., Lee, C., Hone, J., Shan, J. & Heinz, T. F. Atomically thin MoS2: a new…
Room-temperature spin-layer locking of exciton–polariton nonlinearities in a WS2 microcavity
Žutić, I., Fabian, J. & Sarma, S. D. Spintronics: fundamentals and applications. Rev. Mod. Phys. 76, 323 (2004).…
Scientists Just Discovered a Quantum Physics Loophole—And It Could Finally Unlock Interstellar Travel
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John Joannopoulos (1947–2025) | Nature Photonics
Authors and Affiliations Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Marin Soljačić Department of Electrical…
Plasma lens for focusing attosecond pulses
Bor, Z. Distortion of femtosecond laser pulses in lenses and lens systems. J. Mod. Opt. 35, 1907–1918 (1988).…
Quadrature-dependent lattice dynamics of dissipative microcombs
McDonald, A., Pereg-Barnea, T. & Clerk, A. A. Phase-dependent chiral transport and effective non-Hermitian dynamics in a bosonic…
Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If there’s one law of physics that seems…