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Optical fibers are the backbone of modern communications, shuttling information from A to B through thin glass filaments as pulses of light. They are used extensively in telecommunications, allowing information to travel at near the speed of light virtually without loss.

These days, biologists, physicists and other scientists regularly use optical fibers to pipe light around inside their labs. In one ...

This week, the Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) hosts its annual symposium, which brings attendees up to speed on the Center’s latest research interests. The symposium, which features 11 technical talks spanning two days, begins Dec. 7 and is open to all.

This year’s talks cover a range of topics in condensed matter theory, reflecting the diverse interests ...

JQI Fellow Luis Orozco received an honorary doctorate from INAOE, Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica. INAOE is a public research center sponsored by the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico. Orozco accepted the award on November 11, 2016 at a ceremony in Mexico marking the INAOE's 45th anniversary. An announcement accompanying the ceremony, which lauds Orozco's extensive collaboration with the Mexican scientific community ...

From credit card numbers to bank account information, we transmit sensitive digital information over the internet every day. Since the 1990s, though, researchers have known that quantum computers threaten to disrupt the security of these transactions.

That’s because quantum physics predicts that these computers could do some calculations far faster than their conventional counterparts. This would let a quantum computer ...