The study of light propagation in atomic and nanostructured media encompasses the intricate interplay between photons and carefully engineered materials. In these systems, phenomena such as ...

Physicists have manipulated individual particles of light, photons, under ultra-stable laboratory conditions. They split a ...

Topological spin textures, spatially organized patterns linked to the intrinsic angular momentum of particles, have proved to be highly advantageous for the development of spintronics and quantum ...

A tiny optical device built into a silicon chip has achieved the slowest light propagation on a chip to date, reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200.