Metasurfaces are two-dimensional (2D), nanoengineered surfaces that interact strongly with electromagnetic waves and can ...

At its heart, holography relies on the principles of optical interference and diffraction, phenomena that describe how light waves overlap and scatter. By exploiting these effects, holograms encode ...

Rice University researchers used a focused electron beam to pattern device functions with submicron precision directly into an ultrathin crystal. The approach produced traces narrower than the width ...

An international team of researchers in Singapore and Japan has developed a theoretical framework for creating hopfion crystals, which are complex, knot-like patterns of light that repeat across both ...

Researchers have developed a blueprint for weaving hopfions—complex, knot-like light structures—into repeating spacetime crystals. By exploiting two-color beams, they can generate ordered chains and ...

The purpose of this paper is to stimulate researchers to do the following proposed experiments, based on the well-known double-slit experiments and the resulting experimentally established ...

"These single atoms are like the smallest slits you could possibly build." For over 100 years, quantum physics has taught us that light is both a wave and a particle. Now, researchers at the ...

Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...

Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a ...