Amir Yacoby

30.8k total citations · 11 hit papers
192 papers, 21.9k citations indexed

About

Amir Yacoby is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Amir Yacoby has authored 192 papers receiving a total of 21.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 170 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 80 papers in Materials Chemistry and 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Amir Yacoby's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (123 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (40 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (39 papers). Amir Yacoby is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (123 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (40 papers) and Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (39 papers). Amir Yacoby collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Amir Yacoby's co-authors include Jacob M. Taylor, Mikhail D. Lukin, Ronald L. Walsworth, C. M. Marcus, D. Mahalu, Jens Martin, J. R. Petta, A. C. Johnson, V. Umansky and M. Hanson and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Amir Yacoby

190 papers receiving 21.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots

2005 2.3k citations Amir Yacoby, M. D. Lukin et al. profile →
Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond

2008 1.4k citations Sungkun Hong, Paola Cappellaro et al. Nature profile →
High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution

2008 1.3k citations Paola Cappellaro, Amir Yacoby et al. Nature Physics profile →
Observation of electron–hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor

2007 1.2k citations Amir Yacoby et al. Nature Physics profile →
Coherence and Phase Sensitive Measurements in a Quantum Dot

1995 553 citations Amir Yacoby, D. Mahalu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Optical magnetic imaging of living cells

2013 492 citations Keigo Arai, David R. Glenn et al. Nature profile →
A robust scanning diamond sensor for nanoscale imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centres

2012 474 citations Patrick Maletinsky, Sungkun Hong et al. Nature Nanotechnology profile →
Dephasing time of GaAs electron-spin qubits coupled to a nuclear bath exceeding 200 μs

2010 433 citations Hendrik Bluhm, Sandra Foletti et al. Nature Physics profile →
Demonstration of Entanglement of Electrostatically Coupled Singlet-Triplet Qubits

2012 403 citations Shannon P. Harvey, Hendrik Bluhm et al. profile →
Fractional Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene

2021 324 citations Yonglong Xie, Andrew T. Pierce et al. Nature profile →
Nonuniversal Conductance Quantization in Quantum Wires

1996 324 citations Amir Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	An adaptive moiré sensor for spectro-polarimetric hyperimaging 2025 ·Nature Photonics ·Haoning Tang, Beicheng Lou, (unknown), Guangqi Gao, Mingjie Zhang, (unknown), Evelyn L. Hu, Amir Yacoby, Yuan Cao, Shanhui Fan, Eric Mazur	7
2	Current induced hidden states in Josephson junctions 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Shaowen Chen, (unknown), Uri Vool, (unknown), David A. Broadway, (unknown), Tony Zhou, Patrick Maletinsky, Ady Stern, Bertrand I. Halperin, Amir Yacoby	8
3	Toward Programmable Quantum Processors Based on Spin Qubits with Mechanically Mediated Interactions and Transport 2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Emma Rosenfeld, (unknown), (unknown), Jan Gieseler, Tony Zhou, (unknown), Nabeel Aslam, Amir Yacoby, Mikhail D. Lukin	4
4	Circuit quantum electrodynamics detection of induced two-fold anisotropic pairing in a hybrid superconductor–ferromagnet bilayer 2024 ·Nature Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), Andrey Grankin, (unknown), (unknown), Uri Vool, Victor Galitski, Amir Yacoby	6
5	Nanoscale electric field imaging with an ambient scanning quantum sensor microscope 2022 ·npj Quantum Information ·Ziwei Qiu, Assaf Hamo, Uri Vool, Tony Zhou, Amir Yacoby	31
6	Spectroscopic signatures of time-reversal symmetry breaking superconductivity 2022 ·Communications Physics ·(unknown), Jonathan B. Curtis, Amir Yacoby, Prineha Narang	14
7	Parametric longitudinal coupling between a high-impedance superconducting resonator and a semiconductor quantum dot singlet-triplet spin qubit 2022 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Shannon P. Harvey, Saeed Fallahi, Geoffrey C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Uri Vool, Stephen D. Bartlett, Amir Yacoby	29
8	A magnon scattering platform 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tony Zhou, Joris J. Carmiggelt, (unknown), Ilya Esterlis, Dries Sels, Rainer Stöhr, Chunhui Du, D. Fernández, Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva, Felix Büttner, Eugene Demler, Amir Yacoby	43
9	Unconventional sequence of correlated Chern insulators in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene 2021 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Andrew T. Pierce, Yonglong Xie, Jeong Min Park, Eslam Khalaf, Seung‐Hwan Lee, Yuan Cao, Daniel E. Parker, Patrick Forrester, Shao-Wen Chen, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ashvin Vishwanath, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, Amir Yacoby	120
10	Edge-State Wave Functions from Momentum-Conserving Tunneling Spectroscopy 2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, J. Carlos Egues, Gilad Barak, Amir Yacoby, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West, Dominik M. Zumbühl	2
11	Spin-torque oscillation in a magnetic insulator probed by a single-spin sensor 2020 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), Mark Ku, Francesco Casola, Chunhui Du, Toeno van der Sar, Mehmet C. Onbaşlı, C. A. Ross, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak, Amir Yacoby, Ronald L. Walsworth	20
12	Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth and Properties of Strained Superconducting Half-Heusler LaPtBi Film, a Candidate Topological Superconductor 2018 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Yunbo Ou, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Stephan Kräemer, David C. Bell, Philip Kim, Amir Yacoby, Jagadeesh S. Moodera	1
13	Single spin relaxometry of spin noise from a ferromagnet 2015 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Francesco Casola, Toeno van der Sar, Ronald L. Walsworth, Amir Yacoby	1
14	Nanometer-scale probing of spin waves using single electron spins 2015 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Toeno van der Sar, Francesco Casola, Ronald L. Walsworth, Amir Yacoby	1
15	Nanoscale NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Multiple Nuclear Species 2014 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Linh Pham, Stephen J. DeVience, Nir Bar‐Gill, Chinmay Belthangady, Francesco Casola, (unknown), Huiliang Zhang, Paola Cappellaro, Mikhail Lukin, Hongkun Park, Amir Yacoby, Ronald L. Walsworth	3
16	Optical Magnetic Imaging with Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond 2014 ·Biophysical Journal ·Keigo Arai, Chinmay Belthangady, Huiliang Zhang, Stephen J. DeVience, (unknown), David R. Glenn, Linh Pham, Lilah Rahn-Lee, Mikhail D. Lukin, Amir Yacoby, Arash Komeili, Ronald L. Walsworth	1
17	Detecting Non-Abelian Anyons by Charging Spectroscopy 2013 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Chris R. Laumann, Izhar Neder, Amir Yacoby, Bertrand I. Halperin	17
18	A robust scanning diamond sensor for nanoscale imaging with single nitrogen-vacancy centres breakdown → 2012 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Patrick Maletinsky, Sungkun Hong, M. S. Grinolds, Birgit Hausmann, M. D. Lukin, Ronald L. Walsworth, Marco Loncar, Amir Yacoby	474
19	Electron liquids and solids in one dimension 2010 ·Nature ·Vikram V. Deshpande, Marc Bockrath, L. I. Glazman, Amir Yacoby	173
20	Universal quantum control of two electron spin qubits via dynamic nuclear polarization 2009 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Hendrik Bluhm, Sandra Foletti, D. Mahalu, V. Umansky, Amir Yacoby	2

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