Laser-cooled atomic gases, gases of atoms chilled to temperatures around absolute zero using laser technologies, have proved ...

Optical physics is the study of the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter. This includes classical optical phenomena such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and ...

Researchers captured the first-ever images of atoms freely interacting in space, offering a rare glimpse into quantum ...

MIT scientists have snapped the first-ever images of individual atoms interacting freely in space, making visible the elusive ...

Unlike hair, atoms behave and interact according to the rules of quantum mechanics; it is their quantum nature that ... less understood phenomena, such as "quantum Hall physics"—situations ...

The universe began with a bang—an explosion so intense, it forged the fabric of space and time itself. This pivotal moment, ...

Professor of Experimental Materials Physics Kostas Sarakinos studies, how individual atoms arrange themselves into thin films. Kostas Sarakinos is ...

The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world’s most powerful solar telescope, operated by ...