Dirac electrons were predicted by P. Dirac and discovered by A. Geim, both of whom were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 and in 2010, respectively. Dirac electrons behave like photons rather ...

Researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology developed the world’s first Superconducting Wide-Strip Photon Detector (SWSPD) by inventing an innovative structure ...

A view into one of the two vacuum chambers used in the experiments. (Credit: Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics) For the first time, physicists have succeeded in measuring the same photon at two ...

A new set of electron beam measurements puts the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the top of the list of the world’s synchrotron X-ray research facilities. The APS, a U.S. Department of Energy ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies, $2.1 million to begin building two experimental photon-based optical network technologies that could deliver huge ...

LEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new set of electron beam measurements puts the upgraded Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the top of the list of the world’s synchrotron X-ray research facilities. The ...