A research team led by Pasquale Scarlino at EPFL has built a small, tunable detector capable of sensing individual microwave photons and converting them into measurable electrical current. The device ...
Soft X-ray experiments at synchrotron light sources are essential for a wide range of research fields. However, commercially available detectors for this energy range often cannot deliver the ...
The advancement of various quantum technologies has enabled quantum optics experiments in the single-photon regime 1,2,3,4. This requires efficient single-photon detection schemes in both the optical ...
Researchers have developed a new technique to detect photons -- elementary particles that span from visible light to radio frequencies and are instrumental in carrying cellular communication. The ...
About 80% of the universe's mass is thought to consist of dark matter. Yet, little is known about the composition and structure of the particles that make up dark matter, presenting physicists with ...
Quantum fan: the new single-photon detector comprises 32 superconducting nanowires. (Courtesy: Ryan Lannom, JPL-Caltech/NASA) A new photon detector called PEACOQ can register the arrival times of ...
- Succeeded in developing a “Superconducting Wide-Strip Photon Detector” with a superconducting strip over 200 times wider than the conventional nanostrip - Achieves high productivity and polarization ...
Researchers from the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology developed the world’s first Superconducting Wide-Strip Photon Detector (SWSPD) by inventing an innovative structure ...
A compact microwave-photon detector built from a semiconductor double quantum dot and a superconducting cavity could sharpen qubit readout in quantum computers, according to a new preprint from ...