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Atac Imamoglu

Atac Imamoglu

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Physics

D-Index
103
Citations
53823
World Ranking
1470
National Ranking
30

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2002 - OSA Fellows For field-opening work in the areas of electromagnetically induced transparency, quantum optics, and nonlinear optics at the single-photon level.
  • 2002 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For major innovation in quantum optics and mesoscopic physics

Overview

Atac Imamoglu is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to fields spanning physics and astronomy as well as materials science. Their work frequently intersects with atomic and molecular physics, optics, materials chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, condensed matter physics, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their main research topics include quantum and electron transport phenomena, cold atom physics and Bose-Einstein condensates, strong light-matter interactions, 2D materials and applications, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, electronic and structural properties of oxides, and semiconductor quantum structures and devices.

Imamoglu's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Strongly correlated electrons and hybrid excitons in a moiré heterostructure, 2020, Nature
  • Quantum Electrodynamic Control of Matter: Cavity-Enhanced Ferroelectric Phase Transition, 2020, Physical Review X
  • Observation of Magnetic Proximity Effect Using Resonant Optical Spectroscopy of an Electrically Tunable MoSe2/CrBr3 Heterostructure, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics at Arbitrary Light-Matter Coupling Strengths, 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • Theory of exciton-electron scattering in atomically thin semiconductors, 2020, Physical Review B

Frequent co-authors with whom Imamoglu has collaborated include Martin Kroner, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Clemens Kuhlenkamp, and T. Smoleński.

Publication venues where Imamoglu's work is regularly featured encompass arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review X, and the Repository for Publications and Research Data at ETH Zurich.

Imamoglu has been recognized by multiple organizations, receiving awards such as:

  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2014)
  • Member of Academia Europaea (2012)
  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2002) with a citation for major innovation in quantum optics and mesoscopic physics
  • OSA Fellow (2002) for work in electromagnetically induced transparency, quantum optics, and nonlinear optics at the single-photon level

Best Publications

  • Electromagnetically induced transparency : Optics in coherent media

    Michael Fleischhauer;Atac Imamoglu;Jonathan P. Marangos

  • A Quantum Dot Single-Photon Turnstile Device

    P. Michler;A. Kiraz;C. Becher;W. V. Schoenfeld

  • Nonlinear-optical processes using electromagnetically induced transparency

    S. E. Harris;J. E. Field;A. Imamoğlu

  • Quantum information processing using quantum dot spins and cavity QED

    Atac Imamoglu;David D. Awschalom;Guido Burkard;David P. DiVincenzo

  • Quantum nature of a strongly coupled single quantum dot–cavity system

    K. Hennessy;A. Badolato;M. Winger;D. Gerace

  • Giant Kerr nonlinearities obtained by electromagnetically induced transparency.

    H. Schmidt;A. Imamoglu

  • Quantum correlation among photons from a single quantum dot at room temperature

    P. Michler;A. Imamoğlu;M. D. Mason;P. J. Carson

  • Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency

    M. D. Lukin;Ataç İmamoğlu;Ataç İmamoğlu

  • Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2.

    Ajit Srivastava;Meinrad Sidler;Adrien V. Allain;Dominik S. Lembke

  • Valley Zeeman effect in elementary optical excitations of monolayer WSe2

    Ajit Srivastava;Meinrad Sidler;Adrien V. Allain;Dominik S. Lembke

  • Deterministic Coupling of Single Quantum Dots to Single Nanocavity Modes

    Antonio Badolato;Kevin Hennessy;Mete Atatüre;Jan Dreiser

  • Nonequilibrium condensates and lasers without inversion: Exciton-polariton lasers

    A. Imamog¯lu;R. J. Ram;S. Pau;Y. Yamamoto

  • Nonlinear optics and quantum entanglement of ultraslow single photons

    M. D. Lukin;A. Imamoğlu

  • Quantum Entanglement Between an Optical Photon and a Solid-State Spin Qubit

    E. Togan;Y. Chu;A. S. Trifonov;L. Jiang

  • Quantum-Dot Spin-State Preparation with Near-Unity Fidelity

    Mete Atatüre;Jan Dreiser;Antonio Badolato;Alexander Högele;Alexander Högele

  • Very large tunneling magnetoresistance in layered magnetic semiconductor CrI 3 .

    Zhe Wang;Ignacio Gutiérrez-Lezama;Nicolas Ubrig;Martin Kroner

  • Fermi polaron-polaritons in charge-tunable atomically thin semiconductors

    Meinrad Sidler;Patrick Back;Ovidiu Cotlet;Ajit Srivastava

  • Observation of entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon

    W. B. Gao;P. Fallahi;E. Togan;J. Miguel-Sanchez

  • Observation of electromagnetically induced transparency

    A. Imamoglu;K.-J Boller;S. E. Harris

  • Optically Active Quantum Dots in Monolayer WSe$_2$

    Ajit Srivastava;Meinrad Sidler;Adrien V. Allain;Dominik S. Lembke

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Petroff
Pierre Petroff University of California, Santa Barbara
Hakan E. Türeci
Hakan E. Türeci Princeton University
Evelyn L. Hu
Evelyn L. Hu Harvard University
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck
Takashi Taniguchi
Takashi Taniguchi National Institute for Materials Science
Kenji Watanabe
Kenji Watanabe National Institute for Materials Science
Werner Wegscheider
Werner Wegscheider Solid State Physics Laboratory
Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin Harvard University
Eugene Demler
Eugene Demler Harvard University
Arthur C. Gossard
Arthur C. Gossard University of California, Santa Barbara

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