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Frontier Brief · Collision 2026

Optics×Qubit

49.9Collision Index
2.8%historical odds of first co-publication

This pair ranks in the top 0.1% of every collision candidate in the corpus. Across held-out years, pairs scoring that well went on to co-publish at 8.7× the base rate, typically within 2 years.

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Frontier Brief

The Frontier Brief for this collision is still being written. The evidence below already reflects the current model run.

Players in this space · predicted

Pre-company space. No named players have staked this collision yet — an emerging pairing where the field, not a firm, is the story so far.

Who actually spans both fields · graph-verified

44 researchers publish on both sides of this collision without the fields themselves having met. Every name below is counted from papers in the corpus — not inferred.

ResearcherOptics / Qubit
  • Tobias J. KippenbergOsservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
    61
  • Jian-Wei PanZhejiang University
    16
  • Irfan A. SiddiqiÉcole Normale Supérieure - PSL
    15
  • Heng FanNational Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures
    14
  • Kenji WatanabeRWTH Aachen University
    14
  • Franco NoriBeijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology
    14
  • Chang‐Ling ZouCAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, USTC
    22
  • Takashi TaniguchiUniversity of the Basque Country
    13
  • Chao‐Yang LuBeijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology
    13
  • Edoardo CharbonQuTech
    13
Institutionpapers each side
  • Chinese Academy of SciencesCN
    10045
  • Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR
    5156
  • Harvard UniversityUS
    4850
  • Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS
    2272
  • Institute of PhysicsCN
    4434
  • University of MichiganUS
    3839
Closest work to the seambridge fields touched

Counted from the corpus. Institution counts use best-effort affiliation (every author on a paper is paired with every institution on it), so read them as presence, not headcount.

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