Wolfgang Tittel

21.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
130 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Tittel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Tittel has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 95 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Tittel's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (91 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (79 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (60 papers). Wolfgang Tittel is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (91 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (79 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (60 papers). Wolfgang Tittel collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Switzerland and United States. Wolfgang Tittel's co-authors include Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin, G. Ribordy, J. Brendel, Barry C. Sanders, A. I. Lvovsky, Hugues de Riedmatten, I. Marcikic, Daniel Oblak and Joshua A. Slater and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Tittel

127 papers receiving 14.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quantum cryptography

2002 5.7k citations Nicolas Gisin, Wolfgang Tittel et al. profile →
Optical quantum memory

2009 995 citations Barry C. Sanders, Wolfgang Tittel et al. profile →
Violation of Bell Inequalities by Photons More Than 10 km Apart

1998 513 citations Wolfgang Tittel, J. Brendel et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons

2011 418 citations Erhan Sağlamyürek, Neil Sinclair et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wolfgang Tittel Canada	41	13.1k	11.5k	2.9k	439	439	130	14.9k
Christoph Simon Canada	53	11.2k 0.9×	9.1k 0.8×	2.0k 0.7×	345 0.8×	318 0.7×	188	12.4k
Timothy C. Ralph Australia	61	15.9k 1.2×	16.7k 1.5×	3.3k 1.2×	184 0.4×	424 1.0×	369	19.4k
William J. Munro Japan	53	11.6k 0.9×	11.5k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	578 1.3×	377 0.9×	252	13.7k
Christine Silberhorn Germany	46	6.4k 0.5×	5.9k 0.5×	2.4k 0.8×	192 0.4×	334 0.8×	246	8.4k
Paul G. Kwiat United States	59	15.8k 1.2×	13.7k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	190 0.4×	988 2.3×	220	17.7k
A. G. White Australia	50	12.5k 0.9×	11.4k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	536 1.2×	1.2k 2.7×	146	15.3k
Hugo Zbinden Switzerland	58	14.6k 1.1×	14.2k 1.2×	3.7k 1.3×	318 0.7×	677 1.5×	191	17.7k
Chao‐Yang Lu China	51	8.6k 0.7×	8.0k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	1.1k 2.5×	814 1.9×	144	11.6k
Akira Furusawa Japan	49	9.9k 0.8×	9.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	351 0.8×	397 0.9×	186	11.6k
Jonathan P. Dowling United States	50	10.7k 0.8×	6.7k 0.6×	3.8k 1.3×	445 1.0×	1.4k 3.2×	250	12.7k

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Chakraborty, Tanmoy, et al.. (2025). Hybrid quantum repeaters with ensemble-based quantum memories and single-spin photon transducers. npj Quantum Information. 11(1).

Brug, Hedser van, et al.. (2025). Towards a spectrally multiplexed quantum repeater. npj Quantum Information. 11(1). 2 indexed citations

Sinclair, Neil, Joshua A. Slater, Daniel Oblak, et al.. (2024). Optical investigations of coherence and relaxation dynamics of a thulium-doped yttrium gallium garnet crystal at sub-kelvin temperatures for optical quantum memory. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(3). 35202–35202. 2 indexed citations

Stolk, Arian, et al.. (2024). Qubit teleportation between a memory-compatible photonic time-bin qubit and a solid-state quantum network node. npj Quantum Information. 10(1). 2 indexed citations

Cone, R. L., et al.. (2023). Quadratic Zeeman spectral diffusion of thulium ion population in an yttrium gallium garnet crystal. Physical review. B.. 107(9). 2 indexed citations

Yu, Yong, et al.. (2023). Frequency Tunable, Cavity-Enhanced Single Erbium Quantum Emitter in the Telecom Band. Physical Review Letters. 131(17). 170801–170801. 15 indexed citations

Alléaume, Romain, Eleni Diamanti, Florian Fröwis, et al.. (2022). Long-range QKD without trusted nodes is not possible with current technology. npj Quantum Information. 8(1). 14 indexed citations

Alléaume, Romain, Eleni Diamanti, Florian Fröwis, et al.. (2022). Author Correction: Long-range QKD without trusted nodes is not possible with current technology. npj Quantum Information. 8(1). 5 indexed citations

Vermeulen, R. F. L., et al.. (2022). Deployed measurement-device independent quantum key distribution and Bell-state measurements coexisting with standard internet data and networking equipment. Communications Physics. 5(1). 21 indexed citations

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Tittel, Wolfgang, et al.. (2021). Measurement of the thulium ion spin Hamiltonian in an yttrium gallium garnet host crystal. Physical review. B.. 104(13). 5 indexed citations

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Wein, Stephen C., Khabat Heshami, Christopher Fuchs, et al.. (2016). Efficiency of an enhanced linear optical Bell-state measurement scheme with realistic imperfections. Physical review. A. 94(3). 17 indexed citations

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Rubenok, Allison, Joshua A. Slater, Philip K. Chan, I. Lucio-Martinez, & Wolfgang Tittel. (2012). Proof-of-principle field test of quantum key distribution immune to detector attacks. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Sağlamyürek, Erhan, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, et al.. (2012). Conditional Detection of Pure Quantum States of Light after Storage in a Tm-Doped Waveguide. Physical Review Letters. 108(8). 83602–83602. 36 indexed citations

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Rubenok, Allison, Joshua A. Slater, Philip K. Chan, I. Lucio-Martinez, & Wolfgang Tittel. (2012). A quantum key distribution system immune to detector attacks. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Scherer, Artur, Barry C. Sanders, & Wolfgang Tittel. (2011). Long-distance practical quantum key distribution by entanglement swapping. Optics Express. 19(4). 3004–3004. 37 indexed citations

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Tittel, Wolfgang, et al.. (2008). Raman-Echo Quantum Memory. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Kraus, Barbara, Wolfgang Tittel, N. Gisin, et al.. (2006). Quantum memory for nonstationary light fields based on controlled reversible inhomogeneous broadening. Physical Review A. 73(2). 196 indexed citations

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Riedmatten, Hugues de, I. Marcikic, Wolfgang Tittel, et al.. (2004). Long Distance Quantum Teleportation in a Quantum Relay Configuration. Physical Review Letters. 92(4). 47904–47904. 145 indexed citations

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Tittel, Wolfgang, J. Brendel, Nicolas Gisin, & Hugo Zbinden. (1999). Long-distance Bell-type tests using energy-time entangled photons. Physical Review A. 59(6). 4150–4163. 83 indexed citations

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Gisin, Nicolas, J. Brendel, Wolfgang Tittel, & Hugo Zbinden. (1998). Quantum correlation over more than 10 km. 9(12). 41. 2 indexed citations

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