Alex W. Chin

7.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
81 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Alex W. Chin is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alex W. Chin has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alex W. Chin's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (18 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers). Alex W. Chin is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (53 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (18 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (15 papers). Alex W. Chin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and United States. Alex W. Chin's co-authors include Martin B. Plenio, Susana F. Huelga, Javier Prior, Animesh Datta, Filippo Caruso, Samuel Smith, Akshay Rao, Florian A. Y. N. Schröder, Richard H. Friend and Simon Gélinas and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Alex W. Chin

78 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes

2013 787 citations Simon Gélinas, Akshay Rao et al. Science profile →
Quantum Metrology in Non-Markovian Environments

2012 442 citations Alex W. Chin, Susana F. Huelga et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
The role of non-equilibrium vibrational structures in electronic coherence and recoherence in pigment–protein complexes

2013 414 citations Alex W. Chin, Javier Prior et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alex W. Chin United Kingdom	30	3.8k	1.4k	1.2k	952	621	81	5.0k
Tessa R. Calhoun United States	17	2.9k 0.8×	444 0.3×	571 0.5×	1.5k 1.6×	845 1.4×	33	3.9k
Eitan Geva United States	43	4.2k 1.1×	730 0.5×	818 0.7×	377 0.4×	138 0.2×	131	5.3k
Alexandra Olaya-Castro United Kingdom	18	2.2k 0.6×	406 0.3×	559 0.4×	1.2k 1.3×	750 1.2×	36	3.3k
Volkhard May Germany	37	4.1k 1.1×	318 0.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.2k 1.3×	713 1.1×	209	5.4k
Michael Thorwart Germany	37	3.7k 1.0×	945 0.7×	617 0.5×	672 0.7×	408 0.7×	124	4.1k
Eric R. Bittner United States	30	1.9k 0.5×	258 0.2×	1.2k 0.9×	228 0.2×	158 0.3×	113	3.0k
Alexander Eisfeld Germany	30	2.0k 0.5×	505 0.4×	411 0.3×	355 0.4×	154 0.2×	89	2.6k
Marcus Motzkus Germany	40	4.3k 1.1×	411 0.3×	740 0.6×	898 0.9×	569 0.9×	140	5.6k
Akihito Ishizaki Japan	25	4.3k 1.1×	736 0.5×	377 0.3×	1.9k 2.0×	990 1.6×	47	4.6k
Joseph E. Subotnik United States	43	5.1k 1.3×	386 0.3×	1.4k 1.2×	246 0.3×	198 0.3×	185	6.1k

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Chin, Alex W., et al.. (2025). Multiple strain-induced topological phase transitions in 1D polyacene polymers: A first-principles study. Physical Review Materials. 9(4). 1 indexed citations

Keeling, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Process tensor approaches to modeling two-dimensional spectroscopy. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 3 indexed citations

Keeling, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Extracting Coupling-Mode Spectral Densities with Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(25). 6594–6601.

Saint-Martin, Jérôme, et al.. (2025). Multiple topological phase transitions in double-bridged polyacene polymers: Abinitio parametrized stacked Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. Physical review. B.. 112(4).

Huppert, Simon, et al.. (2025). Impact and Interplay of Quantum Coherence and Dissipative Dynamics for Isotope Effects in Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 16(10). 2514–2521. 1 indexed citations

Chin, Alex W., et al.. (2025). Algorithms and software for open quantum system dynamics. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 163(5).

Lovett, Brendon W., et al.. (2024). From Non-Markovian Dissipation to Spatiotemporal Control of Quantum Nanodevices. Quantum. 8. 1305–1305. 4 indexed citations

Mao, Yuezhi, et al.. (2024). Environmentally Driven Symmetry Breaking Quenches Dual Fluorescence in Proflavine. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(17). 4623–4632. 7 indexed citations

Huppert, Simon, et al.. (2024). Extending Non-Perturbative Simulation Techniques for Open-Quantum Systems to Excited-State Proton Transfer and Ultrafast Non-Adiabatic Dynamics. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 20(20). 8749–8766. 6 indexed citations

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Pandya, Raj, Jean‐François Lemineur, Frédéric Kanoufi, et al.. (2024). Concurrent oxygen evolution reaction pathways revealed by high-speed compressive Raman imaging. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8362–8362. 7 indexed citations

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Chin, Alex W., et al.. (2021). Matrix Product State Simulations of Non-Equilibrium Steady States and Transient Heat Flows in the Two-Bath Spin-Boson Model at Finite Temperatures. Entropy. 23(1). 77–77. 10 indexed citations

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Lovett, Brendon W., et al.. (2021). Unveiling non-Markovian spacetime signaling in open quantum systems with long-range tensor network dynamics. Physical review. A. 104(5). 12 indexed citations

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Chaillet, Marten L., Julian Adolphs, Frank Müh, et al.. (2020). Static Disorder in Excitation Energies of the Fenna–Matthews–Olson Protein: Structure-Based Theory Meets Experiment. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 11(24). 10306–10314. 21 indexed citations

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Alvertis, Antonios M., Steven Lukman, Timothy J. H. Hele, et al.. (2019). Switching between Coherent and Incoherent Singlet Fission via Solvent-Induced Symmetry Breaking. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(44). 17558–17570. 103 indexed citations

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Tenorio-Pearl, J. O., Stephen M. Fleming, Celestino Creatore, et al.. (2016). Observation and coherent control of interface-induced electronic resonances in a field-effect transistor. Nature Materials. 16(2). 208–213. 5 indexed citations

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Gélinas, Simon, Akshay Rao, Abhishek Kumar, et al.. (2013). Ultrafast Long-Range Charge Separation in Organic Semiconductor Photovoltaic Diodes. Science. 343(6170). 512–516. 787 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chin, Alex W., Susana F. Huelga, & Martin B. Plenio. (2012). Coherence and decoherence in biological systems: principles of noise-assisted transport and the origin of long-lived coherences. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370(1972). 3638–3657. 95 indexed citations

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Prior, Javier, Alex W. Chin, Susana F. Huelga, & Martin B. Plenio. (2010). Efficient Simulation of Strong System-Environment Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 105(5). 50404–50404. 338 indexed citations

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Caruso, Filippo, Alex W. Chin, Animesh Datta, Susana F. Huelga, & Martin B. Plenio. (2009). Fundamental mechanisms of noise supported energy transfer in biological systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Datta, Animesh, Alex W. Chin, Filippo Caruso, Susana F. Huelga, & Martin B. Plenio. (2009). Noise enhanced transport in light-harvesting complexes and networks. 129. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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