An international team created a supersolid in an exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate at room temperature using a liquid-crystal microcavity, as reported in Science Advances.

A quantum fluid that forms its own stripes A University of Warsaw team reports creating a supersolid phase in a quantum fluid of light using an optical microcavity containing liquid crystal and an organic semiconductor. The researchers describe a condensate…

Researchers achieve almost total light extinction using tin-vacancy qubits in diamond, demonstrating high-cooperativity coupling within a microcavity.

Quasiparticles arising from the interaction between mobile impurities and a quantum many-body environment—known as polarons—play a pivotal role in shaping the optical and electronic properties of low-...

A torsion-pendulum gravitational-force sensor with an optical microcavity readout leverages coupled photon–phonon effects to enhance sensitivity to the tiny gravitational pull from a millimetre-sized ...

Nature Nanotechnology, Published online: 29 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41565-026-02298-8A torsion-pendulum gravitational-force sensor with an optical microcavity readout leverages coupled photon–phonon effects to enhance sensitivity to the tiny gravitational pull from a millimetre-sized source mass.

Neuromorphic computing offers a promising approach to artificial intelligence by mimicking biological neural networks to perform complex tasks efficiently. While software-based simulations have demons...

The Discovery When molecules are trapped inside an optical microcavity, two mirrors separated by a distance smaller than the thickness of a hair, light and matt

Experiments have extended previous demonstrations using one or two trapped atoms to a multi-site atomic tweezer array setting, uniting precise atom control with high cooperativity in microscopic cavities. Twelve individual rubidium atoms are now precisely positioned within light’s confinement inside a fibre optic microcavity. This arrangement demonstrates programmable interactions and paves the way towards building practical components for distributed quantum computers and secure communication networks.

Laser tagging in an optofluidic microcavity enables precise hydrogen concentration detection across a broad dynamic range. Using thermal phonon transfer and dynamic resonance tracking, this spectromet...