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Spin-sonics: Acoustic wave gets the electrons spinning

Researchers have detected the rolling movement of a nano-acoustic wave predicted by the famous physicist and Nobel prize winner Lord Rayleigh in 1885. This phenomenon can find applications in acoustic quantum technologies or in so-called “phononic” components, which are used to control the...

Trapping Light that Doesn't Bounce off Track for Faster Electronics

Replacing traditional computer chip components with light-based counterparts will eventually make electronic devices faster due to the wide bandwidth of light. A new protective metamaterial "cladding" prevents light from leaking out of the very curvy pathways it would travel in a computer chip.

Nano-Optical Cables for Wiring Up Photonic Circuits

Researchers at the University of Alberta, Canada, have proposed a new approach to confining light at subdiffraction wavelengths, using transparent metamaterials—without creating heat or losing data, and with dramatically reduced crosstalk.

Three papers in NeurIPS 2021

There is a long way to go before quantum information (QI) can have a real-world impact on machine learning applications. However, in the short term, QI presents a principled approach to unravel performance bounds and find hidden quantum-classical parallels for widely used machine learning algorithms...

Tensor Rings for Learning Circular Hidden Markov Models

Congratulations to Mohammad Ali Javidian on the selection of his paper titled “Tensor Rings for Learning Circular Hidden Markov Models” which was virtually presented at the second Workshop on Quantum Tensor Networks in Machine Learning.

Spinning Light Waves Might be 'Locked' for Photonics Technologies

A newly described property related to the "spin" and momentum of light waves suggests potential practical applications in photonic communications and photonic circuits. Scientists already knew that light waves have an electric field that can rotate as they propagate, which is known as the polarization property of light, and that light waves carry momentum in their direction of motion. In new findings, researchers have discovered a "spin-momentum locking," meaning, for example, light waves that spin in a counterclockwise direction can only move forward, and vice versa.

Spinning Lightwaves on a One-way Street

Researchers at Purdue University have created a quantum spin wave for light. This can be a carrier of information for future nanotechnologies but with a unique twist: they only flow in one direction.