Phonons are the quantum units of mechanical vibration. They describe how motion propagates through a solid at the smallest ...

Polaritons—hybrid light-matter particles—allow light to be squeezed into deep subwavelength scales, holding great promise for ultra-compact photonic devices. By structuring materials into periodic ...

A team of physicists from the University of Vienna, TU Wien, and Ulm University has cooled a levitated silica nanoparticle to ...

Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 ...

Controlling light at the nanoscale is crucial for next-generation technologies such as faster computing and ultra-sensitive sensors. Scientists are keen to harness unique hybrid waves called “phonon ...

Scientists use a novel cryogenic Quantum Twisting Microscope to reveal how electrons interact with phasons in twisted graphene, offering insights into superconductivity. Using this pioneering ...