Alpha Gaétan

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Alpha Gaétan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Alpha Gaétan has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Alpha Gaétan's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (7 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (7 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers). Alpha Gaétan is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (7 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (7 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers). Alpha Gaétan collaborates with scholars based in France, Denmark and United States. Alpha Gaétan's co-authors include Antoine Browaeys, Y. Miroshnychenko, Tatjana Wilk, Philippe Grangier, Charles Evellin, Philippe Grangier, D. Comparat, P. Pillet, Janik Wolters and Amodsen Chotia and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Alpha Gaétan

8 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Observation of collective excitation of two individual at... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2010 200 400 600
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. Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime
    2009 611 citations Alpha Gaétan, Y. Miroshnychenko et al. Nature Physics profile →
  2. Entanglement of Two Individual Neutral Atoms Using Rydberg Blockade
    2010 484 citations Tatjana Wilk, Alpha Gaétan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alpha Gaétan France 7 1.3k 829 53 35 32 9 1.4k
Thomas Henage United States 5 1.5k 1.1× 917 1.1× 69 1.3× 47 1.3× 30 0.9× 6 1.5k
Erik Urban United States 8 1.5k 1.2× 954 1.2× 73 1.4× 55 1.6× 35 1.1× 11 1.6k
Y. Miroshnychenko Germany 15 1.9k 1.5× 1.2k 1.5× 70 1.3× 50 1.4× 41 1.3× 23 2.0k
Lucas Béguin France 8 757 0.6× 416 0.5× 36 0.7× 44 1.3× 40 1.3× 10 817
V. M. Éntin Russia 17 1.1k 0.8× 564 0.7× 51 1.0× 32 0.9× 16 0.5× 56 1.1k
Matthew A. Norcia United States 17 1.1k 0.8× 390 0.5× 39 0.7× 40 1.1× 104 3.3× 22 1.1k
T. Deuschle Germany 6 868 0.7× 738 0.9× 40 0.8× 19 0.5× 8 0.3× 6 964
D. B. Tretyakov Russia 18 1.1k 0.9× 579 0.7× 68 1.3× 48 1.4× 16 0.5× 62 1.2k
Aline Vernier France 4 514 0.4× 242 0.3× 30 0.6× 37 1.1× 28 0.9× 6 553
Antonio Negretti Germany 22 1.3k 1.0× 597 0.7× 98 1.8× 138 3.9× 68 2.1× 51 1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Alpha Gaétan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alpha Gaétan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Alpha Gaétan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Alpha Gaétan. The network helps show where Alpha Gaétan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alpha Gaétan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alpha Gaétan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alpha Gaétan 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 Alpha Gaétan. Alpha Gaétan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Miroshnychenko, Y., Antoine Browaeys, Charles Evellin, et al.. (2011). Entanglement of two ground state neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade. Optics and Spectroscopy. 111(4). 540–546.
2.
Wilk, Tatjana, Alpha Gaétan, Charles Evellin, et al.. (2010). Entanglement of Two Individual Neutral Atoms Using Rydberg Blockade. Physical Review Letters. 104(1). 10502–10502. 484 indexed citations breakdown →
3.
Gaétan, Alpha, Charles Evellin, Janik Wolters, et al.. (2010). Analysis of the entanglement between two individual atoms using global Raman rotations. New Journal of Physics. 12(6). 65040–65040. 16 indexed citations
4.
Browaeys, Antoine, Alpha Gaétan, Tatjana Wilk, et al.. (2010). ENTANGLEMENT OF TWO INDIVIDUAL ATOMS USING THE RYDBERG BLOCKADE. arXiv (Cornell University). 63–73. 1 indexed citations
5.
Miroshnychenko, Y., Alpha Gaétan, Charles Evellin, et al.. (2010). Coherent excitation of a single atom to a Rydberg state. Physical Review A. 82(1). 35 indexed citations
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Pillet, P., Thibault Vogt, Matthieu Viteau, et al.. (2009). Controllable interactions between Rydberg atoms and ultracold plasmas. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 194(1). 12066–12066. 6 indexed citations
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Gaétan, Alpha, Y. Miroshnychenko, Tatjana Wilk, et al.. (2009). Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime. Nature Physics. 5(2). 115–118. 611 indexed citations breakdown →
8.
Beugnon, J., Charles Tuchendler, H. Marion, et al.. (2007). Two-dimensional transport and transfer of a single atomic qubit in optical tweezers. Nature Physics. 3(10). 696–699. 132 indexed citations
9.
Jones, M. P. A., J. Beugnon, Alpha Gaétan, et al.. (2007). Fast quantum state control of a single trapped neutral atom. Physical Review A. 75(4). 74 indexed citations

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