The experiment also showed that tuning the light beam controlled the propulsion—the stronger the laser, the greater the ...

FELs require a bright and stable source of high-energy electron bunches, so today’s facilities are driven by large and ...

Two extremely precise experiments agree with a previously shocking measurement of just how big the proton is, which may help ...

A new, miniature laser source developed by applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and ...

Tokyo researchers reach quantum milestone with laser test. First use of circularly polarised light in electron scattering. Breakthrough could advance quantum devices and technology. Did our AI summary ...

Scientists in the Riccio College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of California ...

A beam of electrons crossed just a few millimeters of plasma, then helped trigger an effect that usually belongs to massive ...

Chip-scale laser controls trapped ions for quantum clocks and qubits, enabling portable, scalable systems with high fidelity ...

A team of physicists has pushed the limits of quantum control by cooling the rotational motion of a nanoscale object to its lowest possible energy state.

A string of recent experiments has moved desktop-scale particle accelerators from theoretical curiosity to working prototypes ...

Physicists at multiple institutions are compressing particle accelerators from facility-scale machines stretching hundreds of ...

For decades, physicists have chased the goal of bringing together the building blocks of ...