A cloud of cold atoms can be squashed by shining light on it using a new technique developed by Nir Davidson and colleagues at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The effect was used to ...

Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have just reached an important milestone in the development of quantum communications networks by entangling a photon and a single atom located in an ...

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown that a cloud of atoms can be used as a receiver to pick up video transmissions. The team demonstrated this ...

Sometimes it seems so obvious that something won't work very well that no one bothers to try the experiment. This seems to be the case for a pair of recent electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) ...