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Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
V. Krutyanskiy
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2
Yuan-Mei Xie
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
3
Hao Yu
University of Science and Technology of China
4
Daniel A. Vajner
Technische Universität Berlin
5
Sebastian Borówka
University of Warsaw
6
Hao-Tao Zhu
National University of Singapore
7
O. V. Ivakhnenko
B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
8
Bharath Kannan
Atlantic University
9
Giovanni Ferioli
European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility
10
Tobias Nadolny
University of Basel

Papers

1
On-Demand Generation of Indistinguishable Photons in the Telecom C-Band Using Quantum Dot Devices
ACS Photonics|2024
44 cit.
2
Multimode Ion-Photon Entanglement over 101 Kilometers
PRX Quantum|2024
34 cit.
3
Publication in Optica (2024) [29 citations, W4399179091]
Optica|2024
29 cit.
4
Publication in Physical Review X (2025) [28 citations, W4406667397]
Physical Review X|2025
28 cit.
5
RETRACTED: Non-Gaussian Correlations in the Steady State of Driven-Dissipative Clouds of Two-Level Atoms
Physical Review Letters|2024
16 cit.
6
Emergence of Second-Order Coherence in the Superradiant Emission from a Free-Space Atomic Ensemble
Physical Review Letters|2025
14 cit.
7
Multi-field quantum conferencing overcomes the network capacity limit
Communications Physics|2024
11 cit.
8
Publication in Physical Review Applied (2024) [8 citations, W4402901774]
Physical Review Applied|2024
8 cit.
9
Publication in Nature Communications (2025) [6 citations, W4415241055]
Nature Communications|2025
6 cit.
10
Publication in Physical Review Letters (2025) [5 citations, W4410357740]
Physical Review Letters|2025
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Zong‐Quan Zhou
University of Science and Technology of China
2
Yueyang Zhai
Beihang University
3
Tobias Heindel
University of Münster
4
Dong-Sheng Ding
University of Science and Technology of China
5
Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger
Polytechnique Montréal
6
Aldo Di Costanzo Mata
University of Zurich
7
Adam M. Kaufman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
8
Ana Asenjo-Garcı́a
Columbia University
9
Alejandro González-Tudela
Instituto de Física Fundamental
10
Michał Parniak
University of Copenhagen

Papers

1
Quantum Communication Using Semiconductor Quantum Dots
Advanced Quantum Technologies|2022
199 cit.
2
Enhanced metrology at the critical point of a many-body Rydberg atomic system
Nature Physics|2022
161 cit.
3
Universality of Dicke superradiance in arrays of quantum emitters
Nature Communications|2022
160 cit.
4
Quantum dots for photonic quantum information technology
Advances in Optics and Photonics|2023
158 cit.
5
Ytterbium Nuclear-Spin Qubits in an Optical Tweezer Array
Physical Review X|2022
150 cit.
6
Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock
Nature|2023
140 cit.
7
Long-lived Bell states in an array of optical clock qubits
Nature Physics|2022
111 cit.
8
Midcircuit Operations Using the <i>omg</i> Architecture in Neutral Atom Arrays
Physical Review X|2023
105 cit.
9
Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock
Nature|2024
96 cit.
10
Tweezer-programmable 2D quantum walks in a Hubbard-regime lattice
Science|2022
92 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
P. Zoller
Austrian Academy of Sciences
2
Mikhail D. Lukin
Harvard University Press
3
Jian-Wei Pan
University of Science and Technology of China
4
Marlan O. Scully
Mitchell Institute
5
Franco Nori
University of Michigan
6
Nicolas Gisin
University of Geneva
7
Y. Yamamoto
NTT (United States)
8
Min Xiao
China Communications Construction Company (China)
9
Gerhard Rempe
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
10
Ataç Îmamoğlu
ETH Zurich

Papers

1
Quantum cryptography
Reviews of Modern Physics|2002
8.4k cit.
2
Quantum Computations with Cold Trapped Ions
Physical Review Letters|1995
3.7k cit.
3
Cold Bosonic Atoms in Optical Lattices
Physical Review Letters|1998
3.7k cit.
4
Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics
Nature|2001
3.6k cit.
5
Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication
Physical Review Letters|1998
3.4k cit.
6
Quantum simulation
Reviews of Modern Physics|2014
2.9k cit.
7
Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator
Nature|2017
2.5k cit.
8
A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device
Science|2000
2.4k cit.
9
QuTiP 2: A Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems
Computer Physics Communications|2012
2.3k cit.
10
QuTiP: An open-source Python framework for the dynamics of open quantum systems
Computer Physics Communications|2012
2.1k cit.

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