Miniaturization ranks as the driving force behind the semiconductor industry. The tremendous gains in computer performance since the 1950s are largely due to the fact that ever smaller structures can ...

While humans and classical computers must perform tensor operations step by step, light can do them all at once.

The velocity of light in vacuum, c, is approximately 3 × 10 8 m s −1, fast enough to make 7.5 round-the-world trips in a single second, and to move a distance of 300 mm in 1 ns. This ultrahigh speed ...