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Strong Light-Matter Interactions

Strong Light-Matter Interactions is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 11k research works in it since 1957. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the phenomenon of polariton condensation, a form of Bose-Einstein condensation involving exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. It covers topics such as ultrastrong coupling between light and matter, room-temperature lasing, quantum fluids of light, and the manipulation of chemical landscapes through coupling to vacuum fields.

  • Polariton Condensation
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Exciton-Polariton
  • Ultrastrong Coupling
  • Semiconductor Microcavities
  • Room Temperature Lasing
  • Quantum Fluids of Light
  • Strong Light-Matter Interaction
  • Optical Cavities
  • Quantum Electrodynamics
Research works
11k
fractional, since 1957
In the world top 10%
1.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+8%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
33% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Strong Light-Matter Interactions

Which countries lead Strong Light-Matter Interactions research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (571 and 382 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 571 works
  2. 2 United States 382 works
  3. 3 Germany 181 works
  4. 4 France 119 works
  5. 5 Japan 96 works
  6. 6 Russia 96 works
  7. 7 India 96 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 78 works
  9. 9 Italy 71 works
  10. 10 Spain 59 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 32.6%United States: 21.8%Germany: 10.4%France: 6.8%6 others listed: 28.4%33%largest
China571 · 32.6%United States382 · 21.8%Germany181 · 10.4%France119 · 6.8%6 others listed496 · 28.4%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Strong Light-Matter Interactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Strong Light-Matter Interactions research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 69 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 36 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 22 works
  5. 5 Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 15 works
  6. 6 ETH ZurichSwitzerland 15 works
  7. 7 University of RochesterUnited States 15 works
  8. 8 City University of New YorkUnited States 14 works
  9. 9 National Research CouncilItaly 14 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Strong Light-Matter Interactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Strong Light-Matter Interactions include Kostya S. Novoselov, Wei Huang and Kenji Watanabe.

  1. 1 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  2. 2 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  3. 3 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  4. 4 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  5. 5 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  6. 6 Mercouri G. Kanatzidis United States 196k citations
  7. 7 Richard Henry Friend United Kingdom 185k citations
  8. 8 Pulickel Madhavapanicker Ajayan United States 173k citations
  9. 9 A. Stahl Germany 170k citations
  10. 10 Peidong Yang United States 162k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Strong Light-Matter Interactions?

The most cited paper in Strong Light-Matter Interactions is "Many-body physics with ultracold gases" (Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, W. Zwerger, 2008), with 8,232 citations. Next come "Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms" (5,955) and "Bose–Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons" (3,279).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Many-body physics with ultracold gases Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, W. Zwerger · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 18 Jul 2008 8,232
2 Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms Markus Greiner, Olaf Mandel, Tilman Esslinger et al. · Nature Open access 2002 5,955
3 Bose–Einstein condensation of exciton polaritons Jacek Kasprzak, Maxime Richard, Stefan Kundermann et al. · Nature Open access Sep 2006 3,279
4 Graphene plasmonics for tunable terahertz metamaterials Long Ju, Baisong Geng, Jason Horng et al. · Nature Nanotechnology 4 Sep 2011 2,994
5 Exact Analysis of an Interacting Bose Gas. I. The General Solution and the Ground State Elliott H. Lieb, Werner Liniger · Physical Review 15 May 1963 2,732
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Where is Strong Light-Matter Interactions research done?

The largest centres of Strong Light-Matter Interactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Shanghai (China) and Moscow (Russia).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 118 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 46 works
  3. 3 ShanghaiChina 41 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 34 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 32 works
  6. 6 WuhanChina 30 works
  7. 7 SingaporeSingapore 28 works
  8. 8 Saint PetersburgRussia 27 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 26 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 26 works
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Where is the best place to study Strong Light-Matter Interactions?

Among universities, judged by research, University of California San Diego, University of Rochester and Nanyang Technological University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of California San DiegoUnited States 75.438.1%6.6×12 -8.8%
2University of RochesterUnited States 74.223.0%16.8×15 +165.4%
3Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore 70.212.8%9.6×15 -3.1%
4ETH ZurichSwitzerland 67.615.5%10.9×15 -19.5%
5Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 65.520.2%6.4×11 +70.8%
6Columbia UniversityUnited States 62.537.0%4.1×9 +68.0%
7City University of New YorkUnited States 59.017.5%13.2×14 -12.9%
8University of MichiganUnited States 55.717.9%4.2×13 +17.3%
9Peking UniversityChina 53.511.7%3.4×14 +10.7%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53.412.5%3.9×13 +38.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Strong Light-Matter Interactions, country by country

Is Strong Light-Matter Interactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 8% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Strong Light-Matter Interactions.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Strong Light-Matter Interactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0076% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Strong Light-Matter Interactions over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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