This review describes the emerging field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics concerned
with the interaction of photons propagating in a waveguide with localized quantum emitters …

The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Optical tweezers are tools made of light that enable contactless pushing, trapping, and
manipulation of objects, ranging from atoms to space light sails. Since the pioneering work …

Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

This Colloquium describes a new paradigm for creating strong quantum interactions of light
and matter by way of single atoms and photons in nanoscopic lattices. Beyond the …

Considerable efforts have been recently devoted to combining ultracold atoms and
nanophotonic devices,,–to obtain not only better scalability and figures of merit than in free …

Trapping and optically interfacing laser-cooled neutral atoms are essential requirements for
their use in advanced quantum technologies. Here we simultaneously realize both of these …

Optical fibre nanowires and microwires offer a variety of enabling properties, including large
evanescent fields, flexibility, configurability, high confinement, robustness and compactness …

We present a systematic derivation of the dynamical polarizability and the ac Stark shift of
the ground and excited states of atoms interacting with a far-off-resonance light field of …

We report experimental observations of a large Bragg reflection from arrays of cold atoms
trapped near a one-dimensional nanoscale waveguide. By using an optical lattice in the …