Alexander Szameit

22.3k total citations · 10 hit papers
286 papers, 15.4k citations indexed

About

Alexander Szameit is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Szameit has authored 286 papers receiving a total of 15.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 254 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 139 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 70 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alexander Szameit's work include Nonlinear Photonic Systems (130 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (112 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (59 papers). Alexander Szameit is often cited by papers focused on Nonlinear Photonic Systems (130 papers), Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (112 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (59 papers). Alexander Szameit collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Israel and United States. Alexander Szameit's co-authors include Stefan Nolte, Mordechai Segev, Felix Dreisow, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yonatan Plotnik, Julia M. Zeuner, Matthias Heinrich, Andreas Tünnermann, Yaakov Lumer and Mark Kremer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Szameit

267 papers receiving 14.7k citations

Hit Papers

Photonic Floquet topologi... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2013 2016 2011 2020 2015 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Photonic Floquet topological insulators
    2013 2.3k citations Mikael C. Rechtsman, Julia M. Zeuner et al. Nature profile →
  2. Topologically protected bound states in photonic parity–time-symmetric crystals
    2016 628 citations Steffen Weimann, Mark Kremer et al. profile →
  3. Experimental Observation of Optical Bound States in the Continuum
    2011 584 citations Yonatan Plotnik, Felix Dreisow et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Topological funneling of light
    2020 564 citations Sebastian Weidemann, Mark Kremer et al. profile →
  5. Observation of a Topological Transition in the Bulk of a Non-Hermitian System
    2015 521 citations Julia M. Zeuner, Mikael C. Rechtsman et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Experimental boson sampling
    2013 455 citations Max Tillmann, René Heilmann et al. Nature Photonics profile →
  7. Observation of Localized States in Lieb Photonic Lattices
    2015 452 citations Rodrigo A. Vicencio, Steffen Weimann et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Discrete optics in femtosecond-laser-written photonic structures
    2010 372 citations Alexander Szameit, Stefan Nolte Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics profile →
  9. Observation of photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators
    2017 368 citations Lukas J. Maczewsky, Julia M. Zeuner et al. profile →
  10. Topological triple phase transition in non-Hermitian Floquet quasicrystals
    2022 154 citations Sebastian Weidemann, Mark Kremer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Szameit Germany 60 13.5k 5.5k 3.3k 2.3k 1.4k 286 15.4k
Stefano Longhi Italy 61 13.0k 1.0× 6.4k 1.2× 3.5k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 414 14.5k
Roberto Morandotti Canada 68 16.5k 1.2× 6.2k 1.1× 11.1k 3.4× 2.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.5× 481 20.8k
Mikael C. Rechtsman United States 38 11.1k 0.8× 2.9k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 833 0.4× 1.0k 0.7× 100 12.0k
Mordechai Segev Israel 90 32.7k 2.4× 21.0k 3.8× 5.5k 1.7× 1.7k 0.7× 3.2k 2.3× 505 36.9k
Stefan Rotter Austria 41 9.0k 0.7× 4.5k 0.8× 1.7k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 808 0.6× 152 10.4k
Iacopo Carusotto Italy 56 14.5k 1.1× 2.0k 0.4× 1.8k 0.6× 2.6k 1.1× 2.0k 1.4× 264 15.1k
Y. D. Chong Singapore 52 13.0k 1.0× 3.3k 0.6× 2.9k 0.9× 795 0.4× 2.4k 1.7× 136 14.9k
Hui Cao United States 41 5.8k 0.4× 1.6k 0.3× 2.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 183 9.1k
Felix Dreisow Germany 34 5.2k 0.4× 2.0k 0.4× 1.5k 0.5× 658 0.3× 736 0.5× 87 6.0k
Lluís Torner Spain 60 14.0k 1.0× 9.1k 1.7× 2.2k 0.7× 994 0.4× 2.1k 1.5× 360 15.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Weidemann, Sebastian, et al.. (2025). Space-time-topological events in photonic quantum walks. Nature Photonics. 19(5). 518–525. 7 indexed citations
2.
Knips, Lukas, et al.. (2025). Tracing Information Flow from Open Quantum Systems. Laser & Photonics Review. 19(10).
3.
Szameit, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Harnessing collective radiative phenomena on a photonic Kagome lattice. APL Photonics. 9(2). 1 indexed citations
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Stegmaier, Alexander, Stefan Imhof, Alexander Fritzsche, et al.. (2024). Realizing efficient topological temporal pumping in electrical circuits. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 18 indexed citations
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Kartashov, Yaroslav V., Lukas J. Maczewsky, Hongguang Wang, et al.. (2023). Theory of nonlinear corner states in photonic fractal lattices. Nanophotonics. 12(19). 3829–3838. 10 indexed citations
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Heinrich, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Supersymmetric Reshaping and Higher‐Dimensional Rearrangement of Photonic Lattices. Laser & Photonics Review. 17(10). 2 indexed citations
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Dikopoltsev, Alex, Sebastian Weidemann, Mark Kremer, et al.. (2022). Observation of Anderson localization beyond the spectrum of the disorder. Science Advances. 8(21). eabn7769–eabn7769. 19 indexed citations
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Ivanov, Sergey K., Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lukas J. Maczewsky, Alexander Szameit, & V. V. Konotop. (2020). Bragg solitons in topological Floquet insulators. Optics Letters. 45(8). 2271–2271. 26 indexed citations
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Gräfe, Markus & Alexander Szameit. (2020). Integrated photonic quantum walks. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 53(7). 73001–73001. 17 indexed citations
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Stojanović, Mirjana, et al.. (2020). Localized modes in a two-dimensional lattice with a pluslike geometry. Physical review. E. 102(3). 32207–32207. 1 indexed citations
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Ivanov, Sergey K., Yaroslav V. Kartashov, Lukas J. Maczewsky, Alexander Szameit, & V. V. Konotop. (2020). Edge solitons in Lieb topological Floquet insulator. Optics Letters. 45(6). 1459–1459. 37 indexed citations
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Maczewsky, Lukas J., Steffen Weimann, Mark Kremer, Matthias Heinrich, & Alexander Szameit. (2019). Experimental study of non-orthogonal modes in tight-binding lattices. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1–2. 1 indexed citations
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Tillmann, Max, René Heilmann, Markus Gräfe, et al.. (2018). Integrated-optics heralded controlled-NOT gate for polarization-encoded qubits. npj Quantum Information. 4(1). 61 indexed citations
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Pérez-Leija, Armando, Diego Guzmán-Silva, Roberto de J. León‐Montiel, et al.. (2018). Endurance of quantum coherence due to particle indistinguishability in noisy quantum networks. npj Quantum Information. 4(1). 27 indexed citations
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Heilmann, René, Markus Gräfe, Stefan Nolte, & Alexander Szameit. (2015). A novel integrated quantum circuit for high-order W-state generation and its highly precise characterization. Science Bulletin. 60(1). 96–100. 74 indexed citations
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Tillmann, Max, Si-Hui Tan, Sarah Elizabeth Stoeckl, et al.. (2014). BosonSampling with Controllable Distinguishability. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Pérez-Leija, Armando, Francisco Soto‐Eguibar, S. Chávez-Cerda, et al.. (2013). Discrete-like diffraction dynamics in free space. Optics Express. 21(15). 17951–17951. 11 indexed citations
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Rechtsman, Mikael C., Julia M. Zeuner, Yonatan Plotnik, et al.. (2013). Photonic Floquet topological insulators. Nature. 496(7444). 196–200. 2272 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dreisow, Felix, Matthias Heinrich, Robert Keil, et al.. (2010). Classical Simulation of RelativisticZitterbewegungin Photonic Lattices. Physical Review Letters. 105(14). 143902–143902. 157 indexed citations
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Kartashov, Yaroslav V., V. A. Vysloukh, Alexander Szameit, et al.. (2008). Surface solitons at interfaces of arrays with spatially modulated nonlinearity. Optics Letters. 33(10). 1120–1120. 21 indexed citations

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