A. Nicolas

790 total citations · 1 hit paper
4 papers, 549 citations indexed

About

A. Nicolas is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Acoustics and Ultrasonics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Nicolas has authored 4 papers receiving a total of 549 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 3 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Acoustics and Ultrasonics. Recurrent topics in A. Nicolas's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (4 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (3 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (2 papers). A. Nicolas is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (4 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (3 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (2 papers). A. Nicolas collaborates with scholars based in France, Russia and Australia. A. Nicolas's co-authors include Julien Laurat, Dominik Maxein, Lucile Veissier, Lambert Giner, E. Giacobino, Baptiste Gouraud, Olivier Morin, D. V. Kupriyanov, Michaël Scherman and A. S. Sheremet and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

A. Nicolas

4 papers receiving 512 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A quantum memory for orbital angular momentum photonic qubits

2014 368 citations A. Nicolas, Lucile Veissier et al. Nature Photonics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
A. Nicolas France	3	520	206	151	113	88	4	549
Lucile Veissier Canada	10	540 1.0×	160 0.8×	149 1.0×	111 1.0×	91 1.0×	11	571
Bakht Amin Bacha Pakistan	18	717 1.4×	193 0.9×	235 1.6×	194 1.7×	160 1.8×	89	827
Bhaskar Kanseri India	11	369 0.7×	168 0.8×	148 1.0×	114 1.0×	24 0.3×	58	447
Sivan Trajtenberg‐Mills Israel	10	255 0.5×	105 0.5×	49 0.3×	165 1.5×	43 0.5×	18	360
Wenshuai Zhang China	11	350 0.7×	113 0.5×	119 0.8×	145 1.3×	119 1.4×	15	448
Shengshuai Liu China	12	492 0.9×	358 1.7×	55 0.4×	79 0.7×	25 0.3×	32	550
Dongzhi Fu China	4	297 0.6×	51 0.2×	160 1.1×	93 0.8×	41 0.5×	5	325
Xuan Ma China	7	281 0.5×	91 0.4×	145 1.0×	52 0.5×	37 0.4×	11	335
Andreas Norrman Finland	16	383 0.7×	68 0.3×	288 1.9×	111 1.0×	81 0.9×	43	460
Evgeny Ostrovsky Israel	3	342 0.7×	47 0.2×	195 1.3×	79 0.7×	138 1.6×	4	413

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. Nicolas

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of A. Nicolas. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of A. Nicolas based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with A. Nicolas. A. Nicolas is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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4 of 4 papers shown

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Gouraud, Baptiste, Dominik Maxein, A. Nicolas, Olivier Morin, & Julien Laurat. (2015). Demonstration of a Memory for Tightly Guided Light in an Optical Nanofiber. Physical Review Letters. 114(18). 180503–180503. 104 indexed citations

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Nicolas, A., Lucile Veissier, Lambert Giner, et al.. (2014). A quantum memory for orbital angular momentum photonic qubits. Nature Photonics. 8(3). 234–238. 368 indexed citations breakdown →

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Veissier, Lucile, A. Nicolas, Lambert Giner, et al.. (2013). A Reversible Optical Memory for Twisted Photons. 98. QTh1L.2–QTh1L.2. 1 indexed citations

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Giner, Lambert, Lucile Veissier, B. M. Sparkes, et al.. (2013). Experimental investigation of the transition between Autler-Townes splitting and electromagnetically-induced-transparency models. Physical Review A. 87(1). 76 indexed citations

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