Alberto Castro

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Alberto Castro is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Castro has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 10 papers in Spectroscopy and 9 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alberto Castro's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (19 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (19 papers). Alberto Castro is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (22 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (19 papers) and Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (19 papers). Alberto Castro collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Germany and Portugal. Alberto Castro's co-authors include Ángel Rubio, Miguel A. L. Marques, E. K. U. Gross, Xavier Andrade, Micael J. T. Oliveira, Heiko Appel, Carlo Andrea Rozzi, Florian Lorenzen, Piero Decleva and Alejandro Sáenz and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Castro

57 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

octopus:a tool for the application of time‐dependent density functional theory

2006 641 citations Alberto Castro, Heiko Appel et al. profile →
Propagators for the time-dependent Kohn–Sham equations

2004 436 citations Alberto Castro, Miguel A. L. Marques et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Real-space grids and the Octopus code as tools for the development of new simulation approaches for electronic systems

2015 365 citations Xavier Andrade, David A. Strubbe et al. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alberto Castro Spain	23	2.3k	786	523	507	264	58	3.1k
Fernando Nogueira Portugal	19	1.4k 0.6×	752 1.0×	267 0.5×	443 0.9×	341 1.3×	38	2.5k
Neepa T. Maitra United States	31	3.2k 1.4×	599 0.8×	496 0.9×	613 1.2×	813 3.1×	76	3.7k
Xavier Andrade United States	20	1.4k 0.6×	641 0.8×	308 0.6×	370 0.7×	165 0.6×	46	2.1k
Qiming Sun United States	21	1.9k 0.8×	881 1.1×	450 0.9×	313 0.6×	242 0.9×	38	2.8k
Jeremy O. Richardson Switzerland	31	2.4k 1.0×	464 0.6×	514 1.0×	278 0.5×	318 1.2×	95	3.0k
Micael J. T. Oliveira Portugal	18	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 1.8×	359 0.7×	704 1.4×	255 1.0×	29	3.3k
Y. Fujimura Japan	36	3.3k 1.4×	466 0.6×	1.0k 2.0×	490 1.0×	561 2.1×	245	4.3k
Jiřı́ Pittner Czechia	38	3.7k 1.6×	981 1.2×	892 1.7×	517 1.0×	1000 3.8×	118	4.6k
Jiushu Shao China	24	1.6k 0.7×	544 0.7×	284 0.5×	455 0.9×	249 0.9×	56	2.3k
Thomas Müller Germany	29	2.0k 0.9×	611 0.8×	591 1.1×	371 0.7×	785 3.0×	61	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Luis, Fernando, et al.. (2025). Optimal control of spin qudits subject to decoherence using amplitude-and-frequency-constrained pulses. Quantum Science and Technology. 10(2). 25042–25042. 1 indexed citations

Castro, Alberto. (2023). qocttools: A program for quantum optimal control calculations. Computer Physics Communications. 295. 108983–108983. 3 indexed citations

Castro, Alberto & Shunsuke Sato. (2023). Optimizing Floquet engineering for non-equilibrium steady states with gradient-based methods. SciPost Physics. 15(1). 1 indexed citations

Castro, Alberto, Umberto De Giovannini, Shunsuke Sato, Hannes Hübener, & Ángel Rubio. (2023). Floquet engineering with quantum optimal control theory. New Journal of Physics. 25(4). 43023–43023. 8 indexed citations

Alonso, J. L., et al.. (2020). Entropy and canonical ensemble of hybrid quantum classical systems. Physical review. E. 102(4). 42118–42118. 5 indexed citations

Blanes, Sergio, et al.. (2020). Performance of fourth and sixth‐order commutator‐free Magnus expansion integrators for Ehrenfest dynamics. Computational and Mathematical Methods. 3(3). 1 indexed citations

Castro, Alberto, Heiko Appel, & Ángel Rubio. (2019). Optimal control theory for quantum electrodynamics: an initial state problem. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 4 indexed citations

Alonso, José L., Alberto Castro, Jesús Clemente-Gallardo, et al.. (2015). Nonextensive thermodynamic functions in the Schrödinger-Gibbs ensemble. Physical Review E. 91(2). 22137–22137. 1 indexed citations

Castro, Alberto. (2013). Theoretical Shaping of Femtosecond Laser Pulses for Ultrafast Molecular Photo‐Dissociation with Control Techniques Based on Time‐Dependent Density Functional Theory. ChemPhysChem. 14(7). 1488–1495. 12 indexed citations

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Castro, Alberto, J. Werschnik, & E. K. U. Gross. (2012). Controlling the Dynamics of Many-Electron Systems from First Principles: A Combination of Optimal Control and Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory. Physical Review Letters. 109(15). 153603–153603. 65 indexed citations

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Andrade, Xavier, Joseba Alberdi‐Rodriguez, David A. Strubbe, et al.. (2012). Time-dependent density-functional theory in massively parallel computer architectures: the octopus project. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 24(23). 233202–233202. 221 indexed citations

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Vanne, Yulian V., et al.. (2010). Alignment-Dependent Ionization ofN2,O2, andCO2in Intense Laser Fields. Physical Review Letters. 104(22). 223001–223001. 146 indexed citations

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Castro, Alberto & E. K. U. Gross. (2009). Acceleration of quantum optimal control theory algorithms with mixing strategies. Physical Review E. 79(5). 56704–56704. 9 indexed citations

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Botti, Silvana, Alberto Castro, Nektarios N. Lathiotakis, Xavier Andrade, & Miguel A. L. Marques. (2009). Optical and magnetic properties of boron fullerenes. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 11(22). 4523–4523. 41 indexed citations

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Sáenz, Alejandro, et al.. (2008). Single-Active-Electron Approximation for Describing Molecules in Ultrashort Laser Pulses. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 39. 4 indexed citations

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Castro, Alberto, Miguel A. L. Marques, Daniele Varsano, Francesco Sottile, & Ángel Rubio. (2008). The challenge of predicting optical properties of biomolecules: What can we learn from time-dependent density-functional theory?. Comptes Rendus Physique. 10(6). 469–490. 23 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Micael J. T., Alberto Castro, Miguel A. L. Marques, & Ángel Rubio. (2008). On the Use of Neumann's Principle for the Calculation of the Polarizability Tensor of Nanostructures. Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. 8(7). 3392–3398. 16 indexed citations

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Räsänen, E., Alberto Castro, J. Werschnik, Ángel Rubio, & E. K. U. Gross. (2007). Optimal Control of Quantum Rings by Terahertz Laser Pulses. Physical Review Letters. 98(15). 157404–157404. 83 indexed citations

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Castro, Alberto, Miguel A. L. Marques, & Ángel Rubio. (2004). Propagators for the time-dependent Kohn–Sham equations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 121(8). 3425–3433. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Marques, Miguel A. L., Xabier López, Daniele Varsano, Alberto Castro, & Ángel Rubio. (2003). Time-Dependent Density-Functional Approach for Biological Chromophores: The Case of the Green Fluorescent Protein. Physical Review Letters. 90(25). 258101–258101. 159 indexed citations

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