Imagine compressing two petawatts of energy into just 25 quintillionths of a second. That’s the breathtaking feat of Zeus, a groundbreaking laser built at the University of Michigan. For the briefest ...

Bloch oscillations are periodic oscillations of quantum particles in a repeating energy "landscape" (e.g., a crystal lattice) ...

The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware is a vibrant hub of scientific inquiry, encompassing a diverse range of research areas that push the boundaries of human ...

For centuries, scientific progress has depended on more precise tools for measuring the world around us. Galileo’s telescope ...

A team of physicists has discovered that virtual charges, which exist only during brief interactions with light, play a ...

The subatomic particles called neutrinos are famously elusive. But an unconventional trick could make a laser beam of the aloof particles.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the universe and exploring ...

Optics and lasers are among the dual-use technologies that generate significant added value. The most widely publicized ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

Scientists propose LILA, a lunar gravitational-wave detector, to explore a mid-band of spacetime vibrations of the Moon and ...

Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of Chemistry and Technology Prague created a ...