Leonardo Midolo

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
55 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Leonardo Midolo is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonardo Midolo has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 29 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Leonardo Midolo's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (39 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (23 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (17 papers). Leonardo Midolo is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (39 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (23 papers) and Photonic Crystals and Applications (17 papers). Leonardo Midolo collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and Netherlands. Leonardo Midolo's co-authors include Peter Lodahl, Tommaso Pregnolato, Immo Söllner, Søren Stobbe, Alisa Javadi, Jin Dong Song, Gabija Kiršanskė, Sahand Mahmoodian, Andreas D. Wieck and Arne Ludwig and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Leonardo Midolo

47 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deterministic photon–emitter coupling in chiral photonic circuits

2015 456 citations Immo Söllner, Sahand Mahmoodian et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Integrated nano-opto-electro-mechanical sensor for spectrometry and nanometrology

2017 310 citations Leonardo Midolo et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leonardo Midolo Denmark	20	1.4k	960	837	304	173	55	2.0k
Ruth Oulton United Kingdom	21	1.7k 1.2×	917 1.0×	421 0.5×	292 1.0×	305 1.8×	59	2.0k
Yasutomo Ota Japan	25	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.5×	426 0.5×	659 2.2×	321 1.9×	152	2.7k
Marcelo Davanço United States	26	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.8×	536 0.6×	657 2.2×	372 2.2×	89	2.6k
Yichen Shen United States	19	836 0.6×	2.8k 2.9×	2.4k 2.8×	449 1.5×	188 1.1×	35	3.8k
Paul A. Dalgarno United Kingdom	24	1.5k 1.0×	783 0.8×	487 0.6×	271 0.9×	362 2.1×	56	2.0k
Michele Cotrufo United States	18	808 0.6×	586 0.6×	173 0.2×	396 1.3×	158 0.9×	49	1.6k
Cuicui Lu China	29	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	239 0.3×	845 2.8×	140 0.8×	91	2.4k
Junqiu Liu Switzerland	37	4.0k 2.8×	4.6k 4.8×	1.0k 1.2×	352 1.2×	298 1.7×	136	5.5k
Francesco Pagliano Netherlands	15	416 0.3×	484 0.5×	96 0.1×	264 0.9×	122 0.7×	42	947
Qing Li United States	23	1.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	122 0.1×	229 0.8×	192 1.1×	107	1.7k

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Nielsen, Rasmus B., Ying Wang, Andreas D. Wieck, et al.. (2025). Temporal fusion of entangled resource states from a quantum emitter. Nature Communications. 16(1). 7602–7602. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Zhe, Sven‐Bodo Scholz, Andreas D. Wieck, et al.. (2025). Programmable nonlinear quantum photonic circuits. Nature Communications. 16(1). 11397–11397.

Nielsen, Rasmus B., Martin Hayhurst Appel, Zhe Liu, et al.. (2024). Deterministic photon source of genuine three-qubit entanglement. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7774–7774. 17 indexed citations

Zhai, Liang, Alisa Javadi, Sven Scholz, et al.. (2024). A single-photon emitter coupled to a phononic-crystal resonator in the resolved-sideband regime. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9509–9509. 2 indexed citations

Zahidy, Mujtaba, Ronny Müller, Beatrice Da Lio, et al.. (2024). Quantum key distribution using deterministic single-photon sources over a field-installed fibre link. npj Quantum Information. 10(1). 21 indexed citations

Thomas, Rodrigo A., et al.. (2024). Noise Performance of On‐Chip Nano‐Mechanical Switches for Quantum Photonics Applications. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 8(2). 1 indexed citations

Liu, Shi-Kai, Björn Schrinski, Rasmus B. Nielsen, et al.. (2024). Violation of Bell inequality by photon scattering on a two-level emitter. Nature Physics. 20(9). 1429–1433. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Zhe, et al.. (2023). Curved GaAs cantilever waveguides for the vertical coupling to photonic integrated circuits. Optics Express. 32(3). 3723–3723. 2 indexed citations

Paesani, Stefano, Jacques Carolan, Andreas D. Wieck, et al.. (2023). High-speed thin-film lithium niobate quantum processor driven by a solid-state quantum emitter. Science Advances. 9(19). eadg7268–eadg7268. 41 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Kasper Meisner, Nicolas Volet, Martijn J. R. Heck, et al.. (2023). Deterministic photon source interfaced with a programmable silicon-nitride integrated circuit. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 16 indexed citations

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Tiranov, Alexey, Martin Hayhurst Appel, Leonardo Midolo, et al.. (2023). On-chip spin-photon entanglement based on photon-scattering of a quantum dot. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 12 indexed citations

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Appel, Martin Hayhurst, Alexey Tiranov, Leonardo Midolo, et al.. (2022). Entangling a Hole Spin with a Time-Bin Photon: A Waveguide Approach for Quantum Dot Sources of Multiphoton Entanglement. Physical Review Letters. 128(23). 233602–233602. 43 indexed citations

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Thomas, Rodrigo A., Zhe Liu, Martijn J. R. Heck, et al.. (2022). Integration of GaAs waveguides on a silicon substrate for quantum photonic circuits. Optics Express. 30(21). 37595–37595. 10 indexed citations

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Jeannic, Hanna Le, Alexey Tiranov, Jacques Carolan, et al.. (2022). Dynamical photon–photon interaction mediated by a quantum emitter. Nature Physics. 18(10). 1191–1195. 38 indexed citations

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Uppu, Ravitej, Leonardo Midolo, Xiaoyan Zhou, Jacques Carolan, & Peter Lodahl. (2021). Quantum-dot-based deterministic photon–emitter interfaces for scalable photonic quantum technology. Nature Nanotechnology. 16(12). 1308–1317. 138 indexed citations

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Uppu, Ravitej, Henri Thyrrestrup, Ying Wang, et al.. (2020). On-chip deterministic operation of quantum dots in dual-mode waveguides for a plug-and-play single-photon source. Nature Communications. 11(1). 3782–3782. 47 indexed citations

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Thyrrestrup, Henri, Ravitej Uppu, Rüdiger Schott, et al.. (2019). Suspended Spot‐Size Converters for Scalable Single‐Photon Devices. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 3(2). 6 indexed citations

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Javadi, Alisa, Dapeng Ding, Martin Hayhurst Appel, et al.. (2018). Spin–photon interface and spin-controlled photon switching in a nanobeam waveguide. Nature Nanotechnology. 13(5). 398–403. 75 indexed citations

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Javadi, Alisa, Immo Söllner, M. Arcari, et al.. (2015). Single-photon non-linear optics with a quantum dot in a waveguide. Nature Communications. 6(1). 8655–8655. 168 indexed citations

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Söllner, Immo, Sahand Mahmoodian, Sofie Lindskov Hansen, et al.. (2015). Deterministic photon–emitter coupling in chiral photonic circuits. Nature Nanotechnology. 10(9). 775–778. 456 indexed citations breakdown →

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