There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Optical metasurfaces consisting of two-dimensional nanostructures have rapidly developed
over the past two decades thanks to their potential for use as optical components, such as …

Despite tremendous progress in research on self-assembled nanotechnological building
blocks, such as macromolecules, nanowires and two-dimensional materials, synthetic self …

Metasurfaces precisely control the amplitude, polarization and phase of light, with
applications spanning imaging, sensing, modulation and computing. Three crucial …

Controlling large-scale many-body quantum systems at the level of single photons and
single atomic systems is a central goal in quantum information science and technology …

Small registers of spin qubits in silicon can exhibit hour-long coherence times and exceeded
error-correction thresholds. However, their connection to larger quantum processors is an …

Artificial atoms in solids are leading candidates for quantum networks, scalable quantum
computing, and sensing, as they combine long-lived spins with mobile photonic qubits …

Analog optical and electronic hardware has emerged as a promising alternative to digital
electronics to improve the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs). However, previous …

The quality factor, Q, of photonic resonators permeates most figures of merit in applications
that rely on cavity-enhanced light–matter interaction such as all-optical information …

Dynamic metasurfaces have emerged as a disruptive change in the way the response of
optical systems can be tailored by combining the flexibility of flat optics in spatially …