A photon enters an extraordinarily intense laser field. When it exits, its polarization has rotated, as though empty space ...

A team of physicists has designed quantum algorithms that can model one of the most elusive behaviors in nature: a photon ...

The concept of the vacuum, initially thought to be empty, is actually steeped in complex physics. From Aristotle's horror vacui to quantum field fluctuations, this piece explores the transition from ...

Physicists are using quantum computers to simulate high-intensity electromagnetic interactions to test the limits of light ...

Quantum electrodynamics, a school of quantum mechanics, is the best-tested theory in physics. It describes all electrical and magnetic interactions of light and matter. In the macroscopic world, ...

The start of World War II threw quantum theory research into disarray. Many of the European physicists left Europe all together, and research moved across the ocean to the shores of the United States.