UCSB physics professor emeritus John Martinis and UCSB physics professor Michel Devoret were awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize.

In Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s new spectroscopic ...

In 1964, physicist John Bell formulated what became known as Bell's Theorem, showing that if quantum mechanics is correct, ...

A new experiment confirms that angular momentum conservation holds even when a single photon is split into two.

Gravitational-wave detection technology is poised to make a big leap forward thanks to an instrumentation advance led by physicist Jonathan Richardson of the University of California, Riverside. A ...

In a stunning leap for quantum optics, scientists have generated ultrafast light pulses whose quantum uncertainty can be ...

He graduated from Télécom Paris engineering college in 1975 and continued his studies at the University of Orsay where he ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics honours John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis for revealing quantum phenomena in ...

Ultrathin structures that can bend, focus, or filter light, metasurfaces are reshaping how scientists think about optics.

Due to come online later this year and packed with state-of-the-art optics, Advanced LIGO is aiming for a direct detection of gravitational waves that will open a new window on the universe, say Iain ...