2026 Sven Höfling: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	89	2295	2185	204	195	916	32628

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Overview

Sven Höfling is a researcher affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their work spans a broad range of topics within physics and engineering, focusing extensively on semiconductor quantum structures, photonic devices, and quantum information.

The primary fields of study for this researcher include Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Their subfields of specialization highlight Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

Key research topics covered in their publications are:

Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
Photonic and Optical Devices
Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
Quantum and Electron Transport Phenomena
Mechanical and Optical Resonators

Höfling has contributed to numerous recent papers with a variety of collaborators. Notable publications include:

"Topological Defect Engineering and Symmetry in Non-Hermitian Electrical Circuits" (2021) published in Physical Review Letters
"Topological Insulator Vertical-Cavity Laser Array" (2021) published in Science
"Room Temperature Organic Exciton-Polariton Condensate in a Lattice" (2020) published in Nature Communications
"Purcell-Enhanced Single Photon Source Based on a Deterministically Placed WSe₂ Monolayer Quantum Dot in a Circular Bragg Grating Cavity" (2021) published in Nano Letters
"Purcell-Enhanced and Indistinguishable Single-Photon Generation from Quantum Dots Coupled to On-Chip Integrated Ring Resonators" (2020) published in Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Höfling include Christian Schneider, Sebastian Klembt, Fabian Hartmann, M. Kamp, and Tobias Huber.

The researcher publishes predominantly in venues related to physics and applied sciences. The most frequent publication outlets are:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review B
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Applied Physics Letters
Physical Review Letters

Best Publications

On-Demand Single Photons with High Extraction Efficiency and Near-Unity Indistinguishability from a Resonantly Driven Quantum Dot in a Micropillar.

Xing Ding;Yu He;Z.-C. Duan;Niels Gregersen

941
Citations
Quantum-dot spin-photon entanglement via frequency downconversion to telecom wavelength

Kristiaan De Greve;Kristiaan De Greve;Leo Yu;Peter L. McMahon;Jason S. Pelc

646
Citations
On-demand semiconductor single-photon source with near-unity indistinguishability

Yu-Ming He;Yu He;Yu-Jia Wei;Dian Wu

624
Citations
Observation of non-Hermitian degeneracies in a chaotic exciton-polariton billiard

T. Gao;E. Estrecho;K. Y. Bliokh;T. C. H. Liew

557
Citations
Exciton-polariton topological insulator

S. Klembt;T. H. Harder;O. A. Egorov;K. Winkler

502
Citations
High-efficiency multiphoton boson sampling

Hui Wang;Yu He;Yu-Huai Li;Zu-En Su

496
Citations
Boson Sampling with 20 Input Photons and a 60-Mode Interferometer in a 10^{14}-Dimensional Hilbert Space.

Hui Wang;Jian Qin;Xing Ding;Ming-Cheng Chen

477
Citations
An electrically pumped polariton laser

Sven Hofling;Matthias Amthor;Arash Rahimi-Iman;Na Young Kim

439
Citations
Towards optimal single-photon sources from polarized microcavities

Hui Wang;Yu-Ming He;Tung Hsun Chung;Hai Hu

435
Citations
Ultrafast optical spin echo in a single quantum dot

David Press;Kristiaan De Greve;Peter L. McMahon;Thaddeus D. Ladd;Thaddeus D. Ladd;Thaddeus D. Ladd

418
Citations
Waveguide superconducting single-photon detectors for integrated quantum photonic circuits

J. P. Sprengers;A. Gaggero;D. Sahin;S. Jahanmirinejad

408
Citations
AlAs∕GaAs micropillar cavities with quality factors exceeding 150.000

S. Reitzenstein;C. Hofmann;A. Gorbunov;M. Strauß

394
Citations
Observation of Bogoliubov excitations in exciton-polariton condensates

S. Utsunomiya;S. Utsunomiya;S. Utsunomiya;L. Tian;G. Roumpos;C. W. Lai;C. W. Lai

371
Citations
Two-dimensional semiconductors in the regime of strong light-matter coupling

Christian Schneider;Mikhail M. Glazov;Tobias Korn;Sven Höfling;Sven Höfling

336
Citations
Waveguide single-photon detectors for integrated quantum photonic circuits

J.P. Sprengers;A. Gaggero;D. Sahin;S. Jahanmiri Nejad

327
Citations
Interband cascade lasers

I Vurgaftman;R Weih;M Kamp;J R Meyer

325
Citations
Ultrafast coherent control and suppressed nuclear feedback of a single quantum dot hole qubit

Kristiaan De Greve;Peter L. McMahon;David Press;Thaddeus D. Ladd;Thaddeus D. Ladd;Thaddeus D. Ladd

318
Citations
On-demand semiconductor source of entangled photons which simultaneously has high fidelity, efficiency, and indistinguishability

Hui Wang;Hai Hu;T.-H. Chung;Jian Qin

305
Citations
Room-temperature Tamm-plasmon exciton-polaritons with a WSe2 monolayer.

Nils Lundt;Sebastian Klembt;Evgeniia Cherotchenko;Simon Betzold

287
Citations
Direct observation of correlations between individual photon emission events of a microcavity laser

J. Wiersig;J. Wiersig;C. Gies;F. Jahnke;M. Aßmann

273
Citations