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Frontier Brief · Collision 2026

Photonics×Superconductivity

100.0Collision 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

75 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.

ResearcherPhotonics / Superconduct…
  • Kenji WatanabeRWTH Aachen University
    324
  • Takashi TaniguchiUniversity of the Basque Country
    323
  • Tobias J. KippenbergOsservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
    92
  • Jian-Wei PanZhejiang University
    34
  • Pablo Jarillo‐HerreroÉcole Normale Supérieure - PSL
    111
  • Yuan CaoUniversity of Minnesota
    110
  • Franco NoriBeijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology
    42
  • Chao‐Yang LuBeijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology
    42
  • David SchusterRIKEN
    24
  • Andrew HouckNational Synchrotron Light Source II
    24
Institutionpapers each side
  • Chinese Academy of SciencesCN
    139110
  • Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR
    85102
  • Stanford UniversityUS
    10978
  • Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUS
    72117
  • Harvard UniversityUS
    7596
  • University of California, Santa BarbaraUS
    7495
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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