Anton Zeilinger

73.2k total citations · 49 hit papers
379 papers, 45.2k citations indexed

About

Anton Zeilinger is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Anton Zeilinger has authored 379 papers receiving a total of 45.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 318 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 253 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 35 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Anton Zeilinger's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (244 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (215 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (112 papers). Anton Zeilinger is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (244 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (215 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (112 papers). Anton Zeilinger collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United States and Germany. Anton Zeilinger's co-authors include Harald Weinfurter, Jian-Wei Pan, Gregor Weihs, Klaus Mattle, Dik Bouwmeester, Alipasha Vaziri, Marek Żukowski, Thomas Jennewein, Michael Horne and Paul G. Kwiat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Anton Zeilinger

362 papers receiving 42.8k citations

Hit Papers

Experimental quantum teleportation 1975 2026 1992 2009 1997 2001 1995 1990 2000 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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. Experimental quantum teleportation
    1997 3.7k citations Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger et al. Nature profile →
  2. Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons
    2001 2.4k citations Alois Mair, Alipasha Vaziri et al. Nature profile →
  3. New High-Intensity Source of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs
    1995 2.1k citations Paul G. Kwiat, Harald Weinfurter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Bell’s theorem without inequalities
    1990 1.6k citations Anton Zeilinger et al. profile →
  5. The Physics of Quantum Information
    2000 1.4k citations Dirk Bouwmeester, Artur Ekert et al. profile →
  6. Experimental realization of any discrete unitary operator
    1994 1.3k citations Anton Zeilinger, H. J. Bernstein et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. ‘‘Event-ready-detectors’’ Bell experiment via entanglement swapping
    1993 1.3k citations Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Dense Coding in Experimental Quantum Communication
    1996 984 citations Harald Weinfurter, Paul G. Kwiat et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Optomechanical Entanglement between a Movable Mirror and a Cavity Field
    2007 931 citations Anton Zeilinger, Markus Aspelmeyer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry
    2012 923 citations Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger et al. profile →
  11. Experimental Entanglement Swapping: Entangling Photons That Never Interacted
    1998 912 citations Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  12. Experimental one-way quantum computing
    2005 890 citations Philip Walther, Harald Weinfurter et al. Nature profile →
  13. Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions
    1998 856 citations Gregor Weihs, Thomas Jennewein et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  14. Observation of Three-Photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Entanglement
    1999 756 citations Harald Weinfurter, Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. Entanglement-based quantum communication over 144 km
    2007 712 citations Rupert Ursin, F. Tiefenbacher et al. profile →
  16. Wave–particle duality of C60 molecules
    1999 694 citations Anton Zeilinger et al. Nature profile →
  17. Self-cooling of a micromirror by radiation pressure
    2006 685 citations Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton Zeilinger et al. Nature profile →
  18. Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons
    2000 659 citations Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Weihs et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  19. Quantum Entanglement of High Angular Momenta
    2012 622 citations Robert Fickler, Radek Łapkiewicz et al. profile →
  20. Feasible Entanglement Purification for Quantum Communication
    2000 561 citations Anton Zeilinger et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  21. Experimental Demonstration of Free-Space Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution over 144 km
    2007 511 citations T. Schmitt-Manderbach, H. Weier et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  22. Experimental Two-Photon, Three-Dimensional Entanglement for Quantum Communication
    2002 470 citations Alipasha Vaziri, Gregor Weihs et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  23. Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward
    2012 419 citations Xiao‐Song Ma, Thomas Herbst et al. Nature profile →
  24. Quantum imaging with undetected photons
    2014 401 citations Gabriela Barreto Lemos, Sven Ramelow et al. Nature profile →
  25. Free-Space distribution of entanglement and single photons over 144 km
    2006 394 citations Rupert Ursin, F. Tiefenbacher et al. profile →
  26. Experimental entanglement purification of arbitrary unknown states
    2003 382 citations Rupert Ursin, Gregor Weihs et al. Nature profile →
  27. Violations of Local Realism by Two EntangledN-Dimensional Systems Are Stronger than for Two Qubits
    2000 367 citations Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  28. De Broglie wavelength of a non-local four-photon state
    2004 363 citations Philip Walther, Markus Aspelmeyer et al. Nature profile →
  29. Quantum discord as resource for remote state preparation
    2012 341 citations Borivoje Dakić, Xiao‐Song Ma et al. profile →
  30. Interaction-Free Measurement
    1995 338 citations Paul G. Kwiat, Harald Weinfurter et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  31. A wavelength-tunable fiber-coupled source of narrowband entangled photons
    2007 307 citations Alessandro Fedrizzi, Thomas Herbst et al. profile →
  32. Experiment and the foundations of quantum physics
    1999 299 citations Anton Zeilinger profile →
  33. Twisted light transmission over 143 km
    2016 290 citations Mario Krenn, Johannes Handsteiner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  34. Experimental quantum cryptography with qutrits
    2006 280 citations Thomas Jennewein, Alipasha Vaziri et al. profile →
  35. Demonstration of Blind Quantum Computing
    2012 274 citations Anton Zeilinger, Philip Walther et al. profile →
  36. Quantum Teleportation in High Dimensions
    2019 257 citations Mario Krenn, Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  37. High-speed linear optics quantum computing using active feed-forward
    2007 256 citations Philip Walther, F. Tiefenbacher et al. Nature profile →
  38. Multi-photon entanglement in high dimensions
    2016 246 citations Mehul Malik, Marcus Huber et al. profile →
  39. An experimental test of non-local realism
    2007 242 citations Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton Zeilinger et al. Nature profile →
  40. Realization of a Photonic Controlled-NOT Gate Sufficient for Quantum Computation
    2004 235 citations Philip Walther, Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  41. Quantum teleportation across the Danube
    2004 229 citations Rupert Ursin, Thomas Jennewein et al. Nature profile →
  42. Matter-Wave Interferometer for Large Molecules
    2002 223 citations Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  43. Generation and confirmation of a (100 × 100)-dimensional entangled quantum system
    2014 219 citations Mario Krenn, Marcus Huber et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  44. Verification of coherent spinor rotation of fermions
    1975 215 citations Anton Zeilinger et al. profile →
  45. Experimental Realization of Dicke States of up to Six Qubits for Multiparty Quantum Networking
    2009 207 citations Philip Walther, Anton Zeilinger et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  46. Quantum entanglement of angular momentum states with quantum numbers up to 10,010
    2016 192 citations Robert Fickler, Anton Zeilinger et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  47. Active learning machine learns to create new quantum experiments
    2018 177 citations Mario Krenn, Anton Zeilinger et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  48. Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments
    2016 153 citations Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  49. High-Dimensional Single-Photon Quantum Gates: Concepts and Experiments
    2017 152 citations Mehul Malik, Mario Krenn 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
Anton Zeilinger Austria 97 39.6k 33.4k 6.4k 2.8k 2.8k 379 45.2k
Nicolas Gisin Switzerland 99 36.8k 0.9× 33.0k 1.0× 6.9k 1.1× 3.2k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 506 42.7k
Jian-Wei Pan China 96 31.3k 0.8× 28.8k 0.9× 5.5k 0.9× 934 0.3× 1.5k 0.5× 486 37.7k
Marlan O. Scully United States 91 33.7k 0.8× 13.7k 0.4× 5.2k 0.8× 4.4k 1.6× 2.8k 1.0× 822 39.0k
Harald Weinfurter Germany 70 25.0k 0.6× 24.9k 0.7× 3.4k 0.5× 982 0.4× 945 0.3× 221 29.4k
J. I. Cirac Germany 124 64.5k 1.6× 42.3k 1.3× 3.7k 0.6× 6.6k 2.4× 908 0.3× 594 70.7k
Franco Nori United States 112 51.3k 1.3× 24.2k 0.7× 10.0k 1.6× 11.2k 4.0× 5.4k 1.9× 900 61.2k
L. Mandeļ United States 65 23.1k 0.6× 14.7k 0.4× 4.6k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 3.0k 1.1× 253 27.1k
P. Zoller Austria 129 63.9k 1.6× 35.2k 1.1× 5.4k 0.8× 6.0k 2.1× 1.1k 0.4× 526 68.0k
H. J. Kimble United States 88 35.3k 0.9× 25.9k 0.8× 8.1k 1.3× 1.2k 0.4× 1.8k 0.7× 225 37.7k
Seth Lloyd United States 82 27.3k 0.7× 32.3k 1.0× 3.5k 0.5× 3.5k 1.3× 701 0.3× 298 40.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Anton Zeilinger

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krenn, Mario, et al.. (2025). Violation of Bell inequality with unentangled photons. Science Advances. 11(31). eadr1794–eadr1794.
2.
Lahiri, Mayukh, Radek Łapkiewicz, Armin Hochrainer, Gabriela Barreto Lemos, & Anton Zeilinger. (2021). Characterizing mixed-state entanglement through single-photon interference. Physical review. A. 104(1). 9 indexed citations
3.
Krenn, Mario, Johannes Handsteiner, Matthias Fink, et al.. (2016). Twisted light transmission over 143 km. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13648–13653. 290 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ma, Xiao‐Song, Thomas Herbst, Thomas Scheidl, et al.. (2013). Quantum teleportation over 143 kilometres using active feed-forward. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Krenn, Mario, Marcus Huber, Robert Fickler, et al.. (2013). Studies of Quantum Entanglement in 100 Dimensions. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Kofler, Johannes, et al.. (2012). Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations from colliding Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review A. 86(3). 27 indexed citations
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Krenn, Mario, Robert Fickler, William N. Plick, et al.. (2012). Entanglement of Ince-Gauss Modes of Photons. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012.
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Walther, Philip, Xiao‐Song Ma, Borivoje Dakić, William R. Naylor, & Anton Zeilinger. (2011). Experimental photonic quantum simulation of frustrated Heisenberg spins. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2011(24). 1052–3. 1 indexed citations
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Łapkiewicz, Radek, Peizhe Li, Christoph Schaeff, et al.. (2011). Experimental non-classicality of an indivisible quantum system. Nature. 474(7352). 490–493. 170 indexed citations
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Bouwmeester, Dirk, Artur Ekert, & Anton Zeilinger. (2010). The Physics of Quantum Information: Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation. Springer eBooks. 76 indexed citations
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Bertlmann, Reinhold A. & Anton Zeilinger. (2010). Quantum (Un)speakables: From Bell to Quantum Information. Springer eBooks. 60 indexed citations
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Fedrizzi, Alessandro, Thomas Herbst, Thomas Jennewein, & Anton Zeilinger. (2007). A fiber-coupled wavelength tunable source of narrowband entangled photons. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Hübel, Hannes, B. Blauensteiner, Michael Hentschel, et al.. (2007). Robustness of polarization entanglement for long distance QKD. 1–1.
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Schmitt-Manderbach, T., H. Weier, Martin Fürst, et al.. (2007). Experimental Demonstration of Free-Space Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution over 144 km. National University of Singapore. 1–1. 27 indexed citations
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Zeilinger, Anton. (2005). The message of the quantum. Nature. 438(7069). 743–743. 56 indexed citations
16.
Mair, Alois, Alipasha Vaziri, Gregor Weihs, & Anton Zeilinger. (2001). Entanglement of the orbital angular momentum states of photons. Nature. 412(6844). 313–316. 2375 indexed citations breakdown →
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Macchiavello, Chiara, G. Massimo Palma, & Anton Zeilinger. (2000). Quantum computation and quantum information theory : reprint volume with introductory notes for ISI TMR Network School, 12-23 July 1999, Villa Gualino, Torino, Italy. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 17 indexed citations
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Weinfurter, Harald, Paul G. Kwiat, Thomas Herzog, Anton Zeilinger, & Mark A. Kasevich. (1995). Experimental realization of interaction-free measurements. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. 6 indexed citations
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Zeilinger, Anton, et al.. (1994). Experimental realization of any discrete unitary operator. Physical Review Letters. 73(1). 58–61. 1309 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grössing, Gerhard & Anton Zeilinger. (1988). Quantum Cellular Automata: A Corrigendum.. Complex Systems. 2. 1 indexed citations

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