Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has become a powerful tool in chemical,
material and life sciences, owing to its intrinsic features (ie, fingerprint recognition …

The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Short dephasing times pose one of the main challenges in realizing a quantum computer.
Different approaches have been devised to cure this problem for superconducting qubits, a …

The counter-intuitive aspects of quantum physics have been for long illustrated by thought
experiments, from Einstein's photon box to Schrödinger's cat. These experiments have now …

Many chemical methods have been developed to favor a particular product in
transformations of compounds that have two or more reactive sites. We explored a different …

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) systems allow the study of a variety of fundamental
quantum-optics phenomena, such as entanglement, quantum decoherence and the …

Cavity quantum electrodynamics, a central research field in optics and solid-state physics,,,
addresses properties of atom-like emitters in cavities and can be divided into a weak and a …

Optical antennas are an emerging concept in physical optics. Similar to radiowave and
microwave antennas, their purpose is to convert the energy of free propagating radiation to …

Microcavities are semiconductor, metal, or dielectric structures providing optical confinement
in one, two or three dimensions. At the end of the 20th century, microcavities have attracted …

Fano resonance is a universal phenomenon observed in many areas where wave
propagation and interference are possible. Fano resonance arises from the interference of …