2026 Christine Silberhorn: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	73	3531	3357	336	322	500	18609

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Research.com Recognitions

2019 - OSA Fellows Christine Silberhorn Universität Paderborn, Germany For pioneering work in ultra fast integrated quantum optics, in particular for contributions to purity of states and quantum random walks
2012 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics

Overview

Christine Silberhorn is a researcher affiliated with the University of Paderborn in Germany. Their academic work spans various fields within physics, computer science, and engineering, focusing particularly on atomic and molecular physics, optics, artificial intelligence, and electrical and electronic engineering.

Their main fields of study include:

Physics and Astronomy
Computer Science
Engineering

Subfields of study connected to their research are:

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Artificial Intelligence
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Instrumentation
Materials Chemistry

The primary topics addressed in Silberhorn's work involve:

Quantum Information and Cryptography
Photonic and Optical Devices
Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Quantum optics and atomic interactions
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Christine Silberhorn has published extensively across several venues, with notable frequent publication venues including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Optics Express
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Physical review. A/Physical review, A
Physical Review Letters

Among their recent publications are:

"The potential and global outlook of integrated photonics for quantum technologies" (2021), published in Nature Reviews Physics
"Single-photon sources: Approaching the ideal through multiplexing" (2020), published in Review of Scientific Instruments
"Roadmap on quantum light spectroscopy" (2020), published in Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics
"Achieving the Ultimate Quantum Timing Resolution" (2021), published in PRX Quantum
"Scalable Generation of Multiphoton Entangled States by Active Feed-Forward and Multiplexing" (2022), published in Physical Review Letters

Frequent collaborators in Silberhorn's research efforts include:

Benjamin Brecht
Christof Eigner
Michael Stefszky
Tim J. Bartley
Jan Sperling

Recognition of Silberhorn's contributions includes the award of OSA Fellow status in 2019 for pioneering work in ultrafast integrated quantum optics, with specific contributions to purity of states and quantum random walks.

In 2012, Silberhorn was also inducted into the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, acknowledged in the field of physics.

Best Publications

Heralded generation of ultrafast single photons in pure quantum states

Peter James Mosley;Jeff S Lundeen;Brian J Smith;Piotr Wasylczyk;Piotr Wasylczyk

743
Citations
Photons walking the line: A quantum walk with adjustable coin operations

A Schreiber;K N Cassemiro;V Potoček;A Gábris

693
Citations
Generation of Continuous Variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement via the Kerr Nonlinearity in an Optical Fiber

Christine Silberhorn;PK Lam;PK Lam;O Weiss;F Konig

519
Citations
A 2D Quantum Walk Simulation of Two-Particle Dynamics

Andreas Schreiber;Andreas Schreiber;Aurél Gábris;Aurél Gábris;Peter P. Rohde;Peter P. Rohde;Kaisa Laiho;Kaisa Laiho

482
Citations
Gaussian Boson sampling

Craig S. Hamilton;Regina Kruse;Linda Sansoni;Sonja Barkhofen

468
Citations
Continuous variable quantum cryptography: beating the 3 dB loss limit.

Christine Silberhorn;TC Ralph;Norbert Lütkenhaus;Gerd Leuchs

466
Citations
Decoherence and Disorder in Quantum Walks: From Ballistic Spread to Localization

A. Schreiber;K. N. Cassemiro;V. Potoček;A. Gábris

446
Citations
Tomography of quantum detectors

J. S. Lundeen;A. Feito;H. Coldenstrodt-Ronge;K. L. Pregnell

395
Citations
Fiber-assisted detection with photon number resolution

Daryl Achilles;Christine Silberhorn;Cezary Sliwa;Konrad Banaszek

365
Citations
Polarization squeezing and continuous-variable polarization entanglement

Natalia Korolkova;Gerd Leuchs;Rodney Loudon;Rodney Loudon;Timothy C. Ralph

363
Citations
Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory

F. Bussières;C. Clausen;A. Tiranov;B. Korzh

335
Citations
Metasurface interferometry toward quantum sensors.

Philip Georgi;Marcello Massaro;Kai Hong Luo;Basudeb Sain

324
Citations
Photon Temporal Modes: A Complete Framework for Quantum Information Science

Benjamin Brecht;Dileep V. Reddy;Christine Silberhorn;M. G. Raymer

299
Citations
A versatile source of single photons for quantum information processing

Michael Förtsch;Michael Förtsch;Josef U. Fürst;Josef U. Fürst;Christoffer Wittmann;Christoffer Wittmann;Dmitry Strekalov

286
Citations
Highly efficient single-pass source of pulsed single-mode twin beams of light

Andreas Eckstein;Andreas Christ;Andreas Christ;Peter J. Mosley;Christine Silberhorn;Christine Silberhorn

280
Citations
Efficient conditional preparation of high-fidelity single photon states for fiber-optic quantum networks.

Alfred B. U’Ren;Alfred B. U’Ren;Christine Silberhorn;Konrad Banaszek;Ian A. Walmsley

251
Citations
Probing multimode squeezing with correlation functions

Andreas Christ;Andreas Christ;Kaisa Laiho;Andreas Eckstein;Katiúscia N Cassemiro

242
Citations
Generation of pure-state single-photon wavepackets by conditional preparation based on spontaneous parametric downconversion

Alfred B. U'Ren;Christine Silberhorn;Reinhard Erdmann;Konrad Banaszek

237
Citations
A quantum pulse gate based on spectrally engineered sum frequency generation

Andreas Eckstein;Benjamin Brecht;Christine Silberhorn

210
Citations
Quantum key distribution with bright entangled beams.

Christine Silberhorn;N Korolkova;Gerd Leuchs

203
Citations