Aviv’s research focuses on the theory of quantum optics, ranging from light–matter interaction in nanophotonic systems to novel methods for processing classical and quantum information using light. His goal is to propose future quantum technologies as well as to uncover fundamental scientific phenomena enabled by these innovations. In addition, Aviv is interested in optical analogies to quantum phenomena and their application to the development of new optical devices. His research has been published in leading journals, received media coverage, and won multiple awards.

Submitted (^†denotes equal contribution):

1. Shai Tsesses and Aviv Karnieli, “Electrically-Tuned Light Topology”, News and Views piece for Nature Physics, submitted (2025). 
2. Joshua Foley Comer, Ofir Yesharim, Sarika Mishra, Shashi Prabhakar, Eyal Rozenberg, Aviv Karnieli, Ravindra P. Singh and Ady Arie, “Experimental Quantum Cryptography with Inverse-Designed Spatially-Entangled Qudits”, submitted (2025)
3. Aviv Karnieli^†, Paul-Alexis Mor^†, Charles Roques-Carmes^†, Eran Lustig, Jamison Sloan, Jelena Vučković, David AB Miller and Shanhui Fan, “Variational processing of multimode squeezed light”, arXiv:2509.16753, submitted (2025)
4. Jakob M Grzesik, Dominic Catanzaro, Charles Roques-Carmes, Eric I Rosenthal, Guido L van de Stolpe, Aviv Karnieli, Giovanni Scuri, Souvik Biswas, Kenneth J Leedle, Dylan S Black, Robert L Byer, Ido Kaminer, R Joel England, Shanhui Fan, Olav Solgaard and Jelena Vučković, “Quantum sensing of electron beams using solid-state spins”, arXiv:2508.13112, submitted (2025)
5. Clarisse Woodahl, Melanie Murillo, Charles Roques-Carmes, Aviv Karnieli, David AB Miller and Olav Solgaard, “On-Chip Laser-Driven Free-Electron Spin Polarizer”, arXiv:2507.17993, submitted (2025)
6. Offek Tziperman, David Nabben, Ron Ruimy, Yiqi Fang, Ethan Nussinson, Jacob Holder, Alexey Gorlach, Daniel Kazenwadel, Aviv Karnieli, Ido Kaminer, Peter Baum, “Two-electron quantum walks probe entanglement and decoherence in an electron microscope”, submitted (2025)

Published/Accepted (^†denotes equal contribution):

7. Trung Kiên Lê, Daniil M Lukin, Charles Roques-Carmes, Aviv Karnieli, Eran Lustig, Melissa A Guidry, Shanhui Fan, Jelena Vučković, “Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics in Finite-Bandwidth Squeezed Reservoir”, Physical Review Applied 24 034053(2025). Highlighted as Editor’s Suggestion.
8. Xihang Shi, Wen Wei Lee, Aviv Karnieli, Leon M. Lohse, Alexey Gorlach, Lee Wei Wesley Wong, Tim Salditt, Shanhui Fan, Ido Kaminer, Liang Jie Wong “Quantum Nanophotonics with Energetic Particles: X-rays and Free Electrons”, Progress in Quantum Electronics 102 100577 (2025)
9. Charles Roques-Carmes^†, Aviv Karnieli^†, David A. B. Miller and Shanhui Fan, “Automated modal analysis of entanglement with bipartite self-configuring optics”, ACS Photonics 12 3285 (2025)
10. Shani Izhak, Aviv Karnieli, Ofir Yesharim, Shai Tsesses and Ady Arie, “Pseudospin transverse localization of light in an optical disordered spin-glass phase”, Physical Review Letters 134 123803(2025)
11. Alexey Gorlach, Solomon Malka, Aviv Karnieli, Raphael Dahan, Eliahu Cohen, Avi Pe’er and Ido Kaminer, “Photonic quantum state tomography using free electrons”, Physical Review Letters 133, 250801 (2024)
12. Aviv Karnieli, Offek Tziperman, Charles Roques-Carmes and Shanhui Fan, “Decoherence-free many-body Hamiltonians in nonlinear waveguide quantum electrodynamics‏”, Phys. Rev. Research 7, L012014 (2025)
13. Aviv Karnieli^†, Charles Roques-Carmes^†, Nicholas Rivera and Shanhui Fan, “Strong coupling and single-photon nonlinearity in free-electron quantum optics‏”, ACS Photonics 11 8 3401 (2024).
14. Ron Ruimy^†, Aviv Karnieli^† and Ido Kaminer, “Free-electron quantum optics”, Nature Physics 21 193 (2025)
15. Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Valerio Di Giulio, Ady Arie, F. Javier Garcia de Abajo and Ido Kaminer, "Modeling quantum optical phenomena using transition currents", Applied Physics Reviews 11, 031305 (2024)
16. Dolev Roitman, Aviv Karnieli, Shai Tsesses, Zahava Barkay and Ady Arie, “Coherent radiation at visible wavelengths from sub-keV electron beams”, Optics Letters 49, 2013 (2024)
17. Aviv Karnieli^†, Shai Tsesses^†, Renwen Yu, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie, Ido Kaminer and Shanhui Fan, "Universal and ultrafast quantum computation based on free-electron–polariton blockade", PRX Quantum 5 010339 (2024).
18. Shani Izhak, Aviv Karnieli, Ofir Yesharim, Shai Tsesses and Ady Arie, “All-optical spin valve effect in nonlinear optics‏” Optics Letters 49 1025 (2024)
19. Lee Wei Wesley Wong, Xihang Shi, Aviv Karnieli, Jeremy Lim, Suraj Kumar, Sergio Carbajo, Ido Kaminer and Liang Jie Wang, "Free electron crystals for enhanced x-ray radiation", Light: Science & Applications 13, 29 (2024) 
20. Inbar Hurvitz, Aviv Karnieli and Ady Arie, "Frequency-domain engineering of bright squeezed vacuum for continuous-variable quantum information", Optics Express 31 12 20387 (2023)
21. Aviv Karnieli and Shanhui Fan, "Jaynes-Cummings interaction between low energy free-electrons and cavity photons", Science Advances 9 eadh2425 (2023).
22. Aviv Karnieli^†, Shai Tsesses^†, Renwen Yu^†, Nicholas Rivera, Zhexin Zhao, Ady Arie, Shanhui Fan and Ido Kaminer, "Quantum sensing of strongly coupled light-matter systems using free electrons", Science Advances 9 eadd2349 (2023).
23. Roy Shiloh, Norbert Schönenberger, Yuval Adiv, Ron Ruimy, Aviv Karnieli, Tyler Hughes, R. Joel England, Kenneth Leedle, Dylan Black, Zhexin Zhao, Pietro Musumeci, Robert Byer, Ady Arie, Ido Kaminer and Peter Hommelhoff, "Miniature light-driven on-chip nanophotonic particle acceleration", Advances in Optics and Photonics, 14 862 (2022).
24. Aviv Karnieli^†, Dolev Roitman^†, Matthias Liebtrau^†, Shai Tsesses^†, Nika van Nielen, Ido Kaminer, Ady Arie and Albert Polman, "Cylindrical metalens for the generation and focusing of free-electron radiation", Nano Letters 22 5641 (2022).
25. Eyal Rozenberg, Aviv Karnieli, Ofir Yesharim, Joshua Foley-Comer, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Daniel Freedman, Alexander Bronstein, and Ady Arie, "Inverse design of spontaneous parametric downconversion for generation of high-dimensional qudits", Optica 9 602 (2022).
26. Giuseppe Di Domenico, Shaul Pearl, Aviv Karnieli, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Irit Juwiler, Hagai S. Eisenberg and Ady Arie, "Direct generation of high brightness path entangled N00N states using structured crystals and shaped pump beams", Optics Express 30 21535 (2022).
27. Ofir Yesharim, Aviv Karnieli, Steven Jackel, Giuseppe Di Domenico, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills and Ady Arie, "Observation of the all-optical Stern-Gerlach effect in nonlinear optics", Nature Photonics 16 582 (2022)
28. Raphael Dahan^†, Alexey Gorlach^†, Urs Haeusler^†, Aviv Karnieli^†, Ori Eyal, Peyman Yousefi, Mordechai Segev, Ady Arie, Gadi Eisenstein, Peter Hommelhoff and Ido Kaminer, "Imprinting the quantum statistics of photons on free electrons", Science abj7813 (2021).
29. Aviv Karnieli, Yongyao Li and Ady Arie, "The geometric phase in nonlinear frequency conversion" (Review paper), Frontiers of Physics 17 12301 (2021)
30. Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie and Ido Kaminer, "Superradiance and subradiance due to quantum interference of entangled free electrons", Physical Review Letters 127 060403 (2021)
31. Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie and Ido Kaminer, "The coherence of light is fundamentally tied to the quantum coherence of the emitting particle", Science Advances, 7 eabf8096 (2021).
32. Aviv Karnieli, Shai Tsesses, Guy Bartal and Ady Arie, "Emulating spin transport with nonlinear optics, from high-order skyrmions to the topological Hall effect", Nature Communications 12 1092 (2021)
33. Adi Ben Hayun, Ori Reinhardt, Jonathan Nemirovsky, Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera and Ido Kaminer, "Shaping quantum photonic states using free electrons", Science Advances 7 eabe4270 (2021).
34. Chen Mechel, Yaniv Kurman, Aviv Karnieli, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie and Ido Kaminer, "Quantum correlations in electron microscopy", Optica 8, 70-78 (2021).
35. Yongyao Li, Ofir Yesharim, Inbar Hurvitz, Aviv Karnieli, Shenhe Fu, Gil Porat, and Ady Arie "Adiabatic geometric phase in fully nonlinear three-wave mixing", Phys. Rev. A 101 033807 (2020).
36. Sivan Trajtenberg‐Mills, Aviv Karnieli, Noa Voloch‐Bloch, Eli Megidish, Hagai S Eisenberg, Ady Arie, "Simulating Correlations of Structured Spontaneously Down‐Converted Photon Pairs", Lasers & Photonics Reviews, 14 1900321 (2020).
37. Aviv Karnieli^†, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills^†, Giuseppe Di Domenico and Ady Arie, "Experimental observation of the geometric phase in nonlinear frequency conversion", Optica 6 11 1401 (2019)
38. Roei Remez^†, Aviv Karnieli^†, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Niv Shapira, Ido Kaminer, Yossi Lereah and Ady Arie, "Observing the Quantum Wave Nature of Free Electrons through Spontaneous Emission", Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 060401 (2019)
39. Aviv Karnieli, Tomer Markovich, and David Andelman, "Surface pressure of charged colloids at the air/water interface", Langmuir, 34, 13322 (2018) – (undergrad research project)
40. Aviv Karnieli and Ady Arie, "Frequency domain Stern-Gerlach effect for photonic qubits and qutrits", Optica 5 1297-1303 (2018).
41. Aviv Karnieli and Ady Arie, "All-optical Stern-Gerlach Effect", Phys. Rev. Lett. 120 053901 (2018).
42. Aviv Karnieli and Ady Arie, "Fully controllable adiabatic geometric phase in nonlinear optics," Opt. Express 26, 4920-4932 (2018). (Highlighted in "Spotlight on Optics")
43. Aviv Karnieli, Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Benoit Boulanger, and Ady Arie, "Modified quasi-phase-matching and spectral shaping in a nonlinear whispering gallery mode resonator", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B., 34(9), 1971-1980 (2017) – (undergrad research project)