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Chiral quantum optics

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, January 2017
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Title
Chiral quantum optics
Published in
Nature, January 2017
DOI 10.1038/nature21037
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Authors

Peter Lodahl, Sahand Mahmoodian, Søren Stobbe, Arno Rauschenbeutel, Philipp Schneeweiss, Jürgen Volz, Hannes Pichler, Peter Zoller

Abstract

Advanced photonic nanostructures are currently revolutionizing the optics and photonics that underpin applications ranging from light technology to quantum-information processing. The strong light confinement in these structures can lock the local polarization of the light to its propagation direction, leading to propagation-direction-dependent emission, scattering and absorption of photons by quantum emitters. The possibility of such a propagation-direction-dependent, or chiral, light-matter interaction is not accounted for in standard quantum optics and its recent discovery brought about the research field of chiral quantum optics. The latter offers fundamentally new functionalities and applications: it enables the assembly of non-reciprocal single-photon devices that can be operated in a quantum superposition of two or more of their operational states and the realization of deterministic spin-photon interfaces. Moreover, engineered directional photonic reservoirs could lead to the development of complex quantum networks that, for example, could simulate novel classes of quantum many-body systems.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
United States 3 <1%
Germany 2 <1%
Japan 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 972 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 282 29%
Researcher 164 17%
Student > Master 98 10%
Student > Bachelor 54 5%
Professor 53 5%
Other 139 14%
Unknown 198 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Physics and Astronomy 552 56%
Engineering 92 9%
Materials Science 46 5%
Chemistry 39 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 <1%
Other 31 3%
Unknown 223 23%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 210. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 April 2024.
All research outputs
#196,586
of 26,379,745 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#11,661
of 100,413 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,188
of 428,302 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#236
of 816 outputs
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