Ariel Sommer

4.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
24 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Ariel Sommer is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ariel Sommer has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Materials Chemistry and 4 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Ariel Sommer's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (10 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (7 papers). Ariel Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (10 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (7 papers). Ariel Sommer collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. Ariel Sommer's co-authors include Martin W. Zwierlein, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark Ku, Waseem Bakr, Tarik Yefsah, André Schirotzek, Zoran Hadzibabic, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Jonathan Simon and Ningyuan Jia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ariel Sommer

23 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2012 2009 2012 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas
    2012 718 citations Lawrence W. Cheuk, Ariel Sommer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms
    2009 466 citations André Schirotzek, Cheng-Hsun Wu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas
    2012 466 citations Mark Ku, Ariel Sommer et al. Science profile →

Peers

Ariel Sommer
Leticia Tarruell Spain
Smitha Vishveshwara United States
Erich J. Mueller United States
André Schirotzek United States
Chao‐Ming Jian United States
Rémi Desbuquois Switzerland
G. M. Bruun Denmark
Fabian Grusdt Germany
G. E. Astrakharchik Spain
Lawrence W. Cheuk United States
Leticia Tarruell Spain
Ariel Sommer
Citations per year, relative to Ariel Sommer Ariel Sommer (= 1×) peers Leticia Tarruell

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Ding & Ariel Sommer. (2022). Transport of spin and mass at normal-superfluid interfaces in the unitary Fermi gas. Physical Review Research. 4(2). 3 indexed citations
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Rvachov, Timur M., Ariel Sommer, Sepehr Ebadi, et al.. (2017). Long-Lived Ultracold Molecules with Electric and Magnetic Dipole Moments. Physical Review Letters. 119(14). 143001–143001. 150 indexed citations
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Sommer, Ariel. (2017). Inducing Transparency with a Magnetic Field. Physics. 10. 5 indexed citations
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Jia, Ningyuan, et al.. (2016). Observation of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2016. 1 indexed citations
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Jia, Ningyuan, et al.. (2016). Observation and characterization of cavity Rydberg polaritons. Physical review. A. 93(4). 38 indexed citations
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Schine, Nathan, Albert Ryou, Andrey Gromov, Ariel Sommer, & Jonathan Simon. (2016). Synthetic Landau levels for photons. Nature. 534(7609). 671–675. 146 indexed citations
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Sommer, Ariel & Jonathan Simon. (2016). Engineering photonic Floquet Hamiltonians through Fabry–Pérot resonators. New Journal of Physics. 18(3). 35008–35008. 20 indexed citations
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Jia, Ningyuan, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, & Jonathan Simon. (2014). Time Reversal Invariant Topologically Insulating Circuit. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Yefsah, Tarik, Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, et al.. (2013). Heavy solitons in a fermionic superfluid. Nature. 499(7459). 426–430. 109 indexed citations
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Sommer, Ariel, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark Ku, Waseem Bakr, & Martin W. Zwierlein. (2012). Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 108(4). 45302–45302. 137 indexed citations
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Cheuk, Lawrence W., Ariel Sommer, Zoran Hadzibabic, et al.. (2012). Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas. Physical Review Letters. 109(9). 95302–95302. 718 indexed citations breakdown →
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Houcke, Kris Van, Félix Werner, Evgeny Kozik, et al.. (2012). Feynman diagrams versus Fermi-gas Feynman emulator. Nature Physics. 8(5). 366–370. 156 indexed citations
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Ku, Mark, Ariel Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, & Martin W. Zwierlein. (2012). Revealing the Superfluid Lambda Transition in the Universal Thermodynamics of a Unitary Fermi Gas. Science. 335(6068). 563–567. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cheuk, Lawrence W., Ariel Sommer, Zoran Hadzibabic, et al.. (2012). Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
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Houcke, Kris Van, Félix Werner, Evgeny Kozik, et al.. (2011). Feynman diagrams versus Feynman quantum emulator. arXiv (Cornell University). 2012. 2 indexed citations
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Sommer, Ariel, Mark Ku, G. Roati, & Martin W. Zwierlein. (2011). Universal spin transport in a strongly interacting Fermi gas. Nature. 472(7342). 201–204. 197 indexed citations
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Ku, Mark, André Schirotzek, Ariel Sommer, et al.. (2010). Equation of State of a Strongly Interacting Atomic Fermi Gas. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2010(5). 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Cheng-Hsun, et al.. (2009). Strongly Interacting Quantum Mixtures of Ultracold Atoms. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 40(5). 333–6. 5 indexed citations
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Schirotzek, André, Cheng-Hsun Wu, Ariel Sommer, & Martin W. Zwierlein. (2009). Observation of Fermi Polarons in a Tunable Fermi Liquid of Ultracold Atoms. Physical Review Letters. 102(23). 230402–230402. 466 indexed citations breakdown →
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Matsushita, Yu‐ichiro, et al.. (2006). Type II superconducting parameters of Tl-doped PbTe determined from heat capacity and electronic transport measurements. Physical Review B. 74(13). 67 indexed citations

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