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most citedSingle organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

226 citations · 322 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

quant-ph2026

Design of monolithic microcavities for enhancing organic quantum emitters

Tim Hebenstreit, Jaime Gimeno Balaguer, Fridtjof Betz +6

Single organic molecules are a well-established platform for high-quality single-photon generation: they can emit lifetime-limited photons with high purity and indistinguishability…

quant-ph2026

Lattice quantum electrodynamics of a molecular emitter in a topological gap

Clarisse Fournier, Johannes Düreth, Elena Fanella +12

Engineering the photonic environment using lattices of coupled resonators, which we refer to as lattice quantum electrodynamics (QED), provides a route to control both the spontane…

quant-ph2025

Hybrid interfaces at the single quantum level in fluorescent molecules

Daniele De Bernardis, Hugo Levy-Falk, Elena Fanella +5

We theoretically investigate a single fluorescent molecule as a hybrid quantum optical device, in which multiple external laser sources exert control of the vibronic states. In the…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Physics-Constrained Neural Network for Metasurface Optical Response Prediction

Reza Masoudian Saadabad, Ramin Emadi, Lingraj Kumar +2

A physics-constrained neural network is presented for predicting the optical response of metasurfaces. Our approach incorporates physical laws directly into the neural network arch…

quant-ph2024

Enhanced control of single-molecule emission frequency and spectral diffusion

Rocco Duquennoy, Simon Landrieux, Daniele De Bernardis +5

The Stark effect provides a powerful method to shift the spectra of molecules, atoms and electronic transitions in general, becoming one of the simplest and most straightforward wa…

quant-ph2024

Advances in quantum metrology with dielectrically structured single photon sources based on molecules

Pietro Lombardi, Hristina Georgieva, Franziska Hirt +8

In the realm of fundamental quantum science and technologies, non-classical states of light, such as single-photon Fock states, are widely studied. However, current standards and m…

physics.app-ph2023

Quantum thermometry with single molecules in portable nanoprobes

V. Esteso, R. Duquennoy, R. C. Ng +8

Understanding heat transport is relevant to develop efficient strategies for thermal management in microelectronics for instance, as well as for fundamental science purposes. Howev…

quant-ph2022

Singular Spectrum Analysis of Two Photon Interference from Distinct Quantum Emitters

Rocco Duquennoy, Maja Colautti, Pietro Lombardi +4

Two-photon interference underlies the functioning of many quantum photonics devices. It also serves as the prominent tool for testing the indistinguishability of distinct photons.…

quant-ph2022★ 46 cited

Efficient room-temperature molecular single-photon sources for quantum key distribution

Ghulam Murtaza, Maja Colautti, Michael Hilke +5

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) allows the distribution of cryptographic keys between multiple users in an information-theoretic secure way, exploiting quantum physics. While curren…

quant-ph2022

Real-time two-photon interference from distinct molecules on the same chip

R. Duquennoy, M. Colautti, R. Emadi +3

Scalability and miniaturization are hallmarks of solid-state platforms for photonic quantum technologies. Still a main challenge is two-photon interference from distinct emitters o…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Indistinguishable photons on demand from an organic dye molecule

Pietro Lombardi, Maja Colautti, Rocco Duquennoy +3

Single molecules in solid-state matrices have been proposed as sources of single-photon Fock states back 20 years ago. Their success in quantum optics and in many other research fi…

quant-ph2020★ 226 cited

Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies

C. Toninelli, I. Gerhardt, A. S. Clark +13

Isolating single molecules in the solid state has allowed fundamental experiments in basic and applied sciences. When cooled down to liquid helium temperature, certain molecules sh…

quant-ph2020★ 38 cited

Laser-induced frequency tuning of Fourier-limited single-molecule emitters

Maja Colautti, Francesco S. Piccioli, Pietro Lombardi +7

The local interaction of charges and light in organic solids is the basis of distinct and fundamental effects. We here observe, at the single molecule scale, how a focused laser be…

physics.app-ph2020★ 10 cited

Narrow Line Width Quantum Emitters in an Electron-Beam-Shaped Polymer

Carlotta Ciancico, Kevin G. Schädler, Sofia Pazzagli +12

Solid-state single photon sources (SPSs) with narrow line width play an important role in many leading quantum technologies. Within the wide range of SPSs studied to date, single f…

physics.app-ph2019

Quantum optics with single molecules in a three-dimensional polymeric platform

Maja Colautti, Pietro E. Lombardi, Marco Trapuzzano +7

The successful development of future photonic quantum technologies heavily depends on the possibility of realizing robust, reliable and, crucially, scalable nanophotonic devices. I…

quant-ph2019

A Molecule-Based Single-Photon Source Applied in Quantum Radiometry

Pietro Lombardi, Marco Trapuzzano, Maja Colautti +4

Single photon sources (SPSs) based on quantum emitters hold promise in quantum radiometry as metrology standard for photon fluxes at the low light level. Ideally this requires cont…

physics.app-ph2017

Photostable single-photon emission from self-assembled nanocrystals of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Sofia Pazzagli, Pietro Lombardi, Daniele Martella +4

Quantum technologies could largely benefit from the control of quantum emitters in sub-micrometric size crystals. These are naturally prone to the integration in hybrid devices, in…