A laser based on exciton-polaritons, hybrid particles of light and matter, may boost precision laser technology to another level. A team from the Quantum Science and Technology (QST) Department and FLEET found polariton lasers have unexpectedly high...

A surprise observation of negative mass in exciton-polaritons has added yet another dimension of weirdness to these strange light-matter hybrid particles. Dr Matthias Wurdack, Dr Tinghe Yun and Dr Eliezer Estrecho from the Department of Quantum Sciences...

Physicists have trapped exotic hybrid particles in a quantum box a single atom thick, potentially promoting perfect conductivity. The team from the Quantum Science and Technology Department made the box from a tiny rectangular layer of tungsten disulfide...

Scientists have observed complex electronic behaviour, known as topology, in a lossy system within a semiconductor. Despite the losses, such topological systems could be used to create dissipationless pathways – pathways without the scattering...

A new sandwich-style fabrication process, placing a semiconductor only one atom thin between two mirrors, has enabled physicists to make a significant step towards ultra-low energy electronics based on a light-particle hybrid called an exciton-polariton. The...

Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have developed a system to transport data using atomically-thin semiconductors in an extremely energy efficient way. The breakthrough could one day help power next-gen computers and smartphones...

An Australian-led team of physicists have gained new insights into superfluidity by creating sloshing quantum liquids comprised of light and matter, in a bucket formed by lasers. “These quantum fluids are expected to be as wavy as the oceans, but catching...

An international team of scientists has invented the equivalent of body armour for extremely fragile quantum systems, which will make them robust enough to be used as the basis for a new generation of low-energy electronics. The scientists applied the armour...