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20152026
most citedRoadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

74 citations · 212 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

quant-ph2026

Analog quantum simulation of Shastry-Sutherland Ising materials

Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Milan Kornjača, Mao Lin +17

Frustrated magnets host rich emergent behavior because competing interactions generate dense manifolds of low-energy states. The Ising Shastry-Sutherland model is a paradigmatic se…

physics.optics2026

Extreme Ultrafast Dynamics of the Refractive Index in Transparent Conductive Oxides: Theory and Experiment

Noa Konforty, Graham G. Brown, Ohad Segal +5

Recent experiments in transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) have revealed light-induced order-unity variations in the refractive index occurring at extreme time scales, as short as…

physics.optics2026

Nonlinearity Reversal in Epsilon-Near-Zero Indium Tin Oxide Driven by Few-Cycle Light Pulse

Mustafa Goksu Ozlu, Colton Fruhling, Ian Hoffman +4

Recent breakthrough studies of nonlinearities at extreme pump intensities (1 ) in transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) have rewritten our understanding of the…

physics.optics2026

Single-pump hybrid nonlinearities in transparent conductors

Wallace Jaffray, Sven Stengel, Alexandra Boltasseva +7

Low-index transparent conducting oxides have attracted significant attention because ultrafast optical excitation in these materials can induce exceptionally large temporal index g…

physics.optics2025

Pathway to Optical-Cycle Dynamic Photonics: Extreme Electron Temperatures in Transparent Conducting Oxides

Jae Ik Choi, Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Colton Fruhling +4

We theoretically demonstrate that transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) exhibit oscillatory and sign-reversing dynamic modulation in transmittance on the order of a few optical cycl…

physics.optics2025

Spatio-Temporal Photonic Metalattice

Wallace Jaffray, Sven Stengel, Farhan Ali +9

When coherent light interacts with an ordered lattice whose periodicity is comparable to its wavelength, constructive interference produces a diffraction pattern as in crystallogra…

physics.optics2025

All-optical polarization control in time-varying low-index films via plasma symmetry breaking

Wallace Jaffray, Sven Stengel, Alexandra Boltasseva +6

Controlling the polarization state of light with sub-picosecond speed and subwavelength precision remains a key challenge for next-generation nanophotonic devices. Conventional met…

physics.optics2025

Topology-Optimized Dielectric Cavities for Enhanced Excitonic Light Emission from

Owen Matthiessen, Brandon Triplett, Omer Yesilyurt +14

Photonic inverse design and, especially, topology optimization, enable dielectric cavities with deeply sub-diffraction mode volumes and high quality factors, thus offering a powerf…

quant-ph2025

Anticipating Decoherence for Enhancing Coherence in Quantum Systems

Pranshu Maan, Yuheng Chen, Sean Borneman +6

Large-scale quantum systems require optical coherence between distant quantum devices, necessitating spectral indistinguishability. Scalable solid-state platforms offer promising r…

physics.optics2025★ 15 cited

Machine-Learning-Assisted Photonic Device Development: A Multiscale Approach from Theory to Characterization

Yuheng Chen, Alexander Montes McNeil, Taehyuk Park +16

Photonic device development (PDD) has achieved remarkable success in designing and implementing new devices for controlling light across various wavelengths, scales, and applicatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 74 cited

Roadmap for Photonics with 2D Materials

F. Javier García de Abajo, D. N. Basov, Frank H. L. Koppens +145

Triggered by the development of exfoliation and the identification of a wide range of extraordinary physical properties in self-standing films consisting of one or few atomic layer…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 42 cited

Roadmap on Nonlocality in Photonic Materials and Metamaterials

Francesco Monticone, N. Asger Mortensen, Antonio I. Fernández-Domínguez +63

Photonic technologies continue to drive the quest for new optical materials with unprecedented responses. A major frontier in this field is the exploration of nonlocal (spatially d…

physics.optics2025

High Harmonic Generation from a Noble Metal

Shima Gholam-Mirzaei, Aleksey Korobenko, Nida Haram +11

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has typically been explored in transparent dielectrics and semiconductors. Metals have long been dismissed due to their strong reflectivity…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 2 cited

Crystallization of the transdimensional electron liquid

Igor V. Bondarev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Jacob B. Khurgin +1

Wigner crystallization of free electrons at room temperature is explored for a new class of metallic ultrathin (transdimensional) materials whose properties can be controlled by th…

physics.optics2025

Generation of photon pairs through spontaneous four-wave mixing in subwavelength nonlinear films

Changjin Son, Samuel Peana, Owen Matthiessen +5

Pairs of entangled photons are crucial for photonic quantum technologies. The demand for integrability and multi-functionality suggests 'flat' platforms - ultrathin layers and meta…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

PearSAN: A Machine Learning Method for Inverse Design using Pearson Correlated Surrogate Annealing

Michael Bezick, Blake A. Wilson, Vaishnavi Iyer +6

PearSAN is a machine learning-assisted optimization algorithm applicable to inverse design problems with large design spaces, where traditional optimizers struggle. The algorithm l…

physics.optics2024

Second Harmonic Generation and Nonlinear Frequency Conversion in Photonic Time-Crystals

Noa Konforty, Moshe-Ishay Cohen, Ohad Segal +2

We study the nonlinear process of second harmonic generation in photonic time-crystals, materials with refractive index that varies abruptly and periodically in time, and obtain th…

quant-ph2024

Bottom-up Fabrication of 2D Rydberg Exciton Arrays in Cuprous Oxide

Kinjol Barua, Samuel Peana, Arya Deepak Keni +5

Solid-state platforms provide exceptional opportunities for advancing on-chip quantum technologies by enhancing interaction strengths through coupling, scalability, and robustness.…

physics.optics2024

Floquet Engineering of Polaritonic Amplification in Dispersive Photonic Time Crystals

Mustafa Goksu Ozlu, Vahagn Mkhitaryan, Colton B. Fruhling +2

In this study, we investigate the dynamics of dispersive photonic time crystals (PTCs) and their potential applications for controlling light-matter interaction. By employing the L…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Non-native Quantum Generative Optimization with Adversarial Autoencoders

Blake A. Wilson, Jonathan Wurtz, Vahagn Mkhitaryan +5

Large-scale optimization problems are prevalent in several fields, including engineering, finance, and logistics. However, most optimization problems cannot be efficiently encoded…

physics.optics2024★ 25 cited

Site-Controlled Purcell-Induced Bright Single Photon Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Mashnoon Alam Sakib, Brandon Triplett, William Harris +8

Single photon emitters (SPEs) hosted in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are essential elementary building blocks for enabling future on-chip quantum photonic technologies that operat…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 6 cited

Natural width of the superconducting transition in epitaxial TiN films

E. M. Baeva, A. I. Kolbatova, N. A. Titova +7

We investigate the effect of various fluctuation mechanisms on the DC resistance in superconducting devices based on epitaxial titanium nitride (TiN) films. The samples we studied…

physics.optics2021

Machine learning assisted quantum super-resolution microscopy

Zhaxylyk A. Kudyshev, Demid Sychev, Zachariah Martin +5

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incid…

physics.optics2015★ 45 cited

Plasmon Resonance in Multilayer Graphene Nanoribbons

Naresh Kumar Emani, Di Wang, Ting-Fung Chung +5

Plasmon resonance in nanopatterned single layer graphene nanoribbon (SL-GNR), double layer graphene nanoribbon (DL-GNR) and triple layer graphene nanoribbon (TL-GNR) structures is…