Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (commonly referred to AMO Physics) is the study of the interaction between light and matter. Physicists study this interaction on various scales, from the atomic ...

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Vol. 86, No. 3, Papers on Astronomy, Botany, Geology, Paleontology, and Zoology (Jul. 8, 1943), pp. 351-363 (13 pages) In the first part of the present paper the amount of total light reflected by ...

Technologies that rely on interactions between matter and polarized light usually stick to the well-understood effects of linear or circular polarization. Researchers at Rice University in the US have ...

Scientists have created a new class of laser beam that appears to violate long-held laws of light physics. These new beams, which the team calls “spacetime wave packets,” follow different rules of ...

A flash of light has turned a sheet of atoms into a dance floor. In a feat of precision physics, researchers from Cornell and ...

Physicists in the US claim to have created the first thin optical film with a refractive index close to that of air. The film consists of an array of obliquely-deposited nanorods, which can ...

Physicists from Imperial College London have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in quantum physics by reimagining the ...

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