Axel Friedenauer

950 total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 666 citations indexed

About

Axel Friedenauer is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Friedenauer has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 666 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 8 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Axel Friedenauer's work include Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (5 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (5 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (4 papers). Axel Friedenauer is often cited by papers focused on Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (5 papers), Solid State Laser Technologies (5 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (4 papers). Axel Friedenauer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and Italy. Axel Friedenauer's co-authors include H. Schmitz, Tobias Schaetz, Diego Porras, L. Petersen, T. Schätz, Erik Sjöqvist, Michael Uhlmann, Ralf Schützhold, Wilhelm Kaenders and Wallace R. L. Clements and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Physics and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Axel Friedenauer

15 papers receiving 636 citations

Hit Papers

Simulating a quantum magnet with trapped ions 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
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. Simulating a quantum magnet with trapped ions
    2008 426 citations Axel Friedenauer, H. Schmitz et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Axel Friedenauer Germany 10 612 350 79 69 65 16 666
Raphael Lopes France 15 882 1.4× 249 0.7× 71 0.9× 95 1.4× 24 0.4× 29 912
Andrei Sidorov Australia 15 778 1.3× 161 0.5× 64 0.8× 86 1.2× 26 0.4× 35 800
H. Schmitz Germany 6 711 1.2× 636 1.8× 80 1.0× 77 1.1× 34 0.5× 6 899
Hong Y. Ling United States 17 957 1.6× 245 0.7× 53 0.7× 65 0.9× 102 1.6× 41 1.0k
Jing‐Bo Xu China 18 899 1.5× 716 2.0× 44 0.6× 149 2.2× 39 0.6× 115 981
Grant Biedermann United States 15 895 1.5× 379 1.1× 27 0.3× 27 0.4× 62 1.0× 30 953
Przemysław Bienias United States 16 595 1.0× 298 0.9× 36 0.5× 73 1.1× 21 0.3× 35 659
A. Perrin France 15 1.1k 1.9× 396 1.1× 72 0.9× 72 1.0× 20 0.3× 26 1.2k
Micah Boyd United States 7 713 1.2× 240 0.7× 48 0.6× 98 1.4× 25 0.4× 7 742
George Fitch United States 3 549 0.9× 402 1.1× 74 0.9× 32 0.5× 72 1.1× 4 628

Countries citing papers authored by Axel Friedenauer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Axel Friedenauer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Axel Friedenauer

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All Works

16 of 16 papers shown
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Hellerer, Thomas, et al.. (2019). 920 nm fiber laser delivering 100 fs pulses for nonlinear microscopy. 29–29. 1 indexed citations
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Enderlein, Martin, et al.. (2015). Robust remote-pumping sodium laser for advanced LIDAR and guide star applications. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9641. 96410F–96410F. 6 indexed citations
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Enderlein, Martin, et al.. (2014). Series production of next-generation guide-star lasers at TOPTICA and MPBC. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9148. 914807–914807. 12 indexed citations
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Calia, Domenico Bonaccini, Axel Friedenauer, Thomas Pfrommer, et al.. (2012). The ESO transportable LGS Unit for measurements of the LGS photon return and other experiments. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8450. 84501R–84501R. 16 indexed citations
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Friedenauer, Axel, et al.. (2012). RFA-based 589-nm guide star lasers for ESO VLT: a paradigm shift in performance, operational simplicity, reliability, and maintenance. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8447. 84470F–84470F. 18 indexed citations
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Calia, Domenico Bonaccini, Axel Friedenauer, Luke Taylor, et al.. (2010). PM fiber lasers at 589nm: a 20W transportable laser system for LGS return flux studies. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9 indexed citations
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Kaenders, Wilhelm, Axel Friedenauer, Wallace R. L. Clements, et al.. (2010). Diode-seeded fiber-based sodium laser guide stars ready for deployment. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7736. 773621–773621. 4 indexed citations
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Friedenauer, Axel. (2010). Simulation of the Quantum Ising Model in an Ion Trap. Electronic Theses of LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München). 2 indexed citations
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Schmitz, H., Axel Friedenauer, Christian Schneider, et al.. (2009). The “arch” of simulating quantum spin systems with trapped ions. Applied Physics B. 95(2). 195–203. 19 indexed citations
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Taylor, Luke, Axel Friedenauer, Yan Feng, et al.. (2009). 20 W at 589 nm via frequency doubling of coherently beam combined 2-MHz 1178-nm CW signals amplified in Raman PM fiber amplifiers. 1–1. 2 indexed citations
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Friedenauer, Axel, et al.. (2008). Simulating a quantum magnet with trapped ions. Nature Physics. 4(10). 757–761. 426 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schützhold, Ralf, Michael Uhlmann, L. Petersen, et al.. (2007). Analogue of Cosmological Particle Creation in an Ion Trap. Physical Review Letters. 99(20). 201301–201301. 53 indexed citations
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Schaetz, Tobias, et al.. (2007). Towards (scalable) quantum simulations in ion traps. Journal of Modern Optics. 54(16-17). 2317–2325. 36 indexed citations
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Friedenauer, Axel, H. Schmitz, L. Petersen, et al.. (2006). High power all solid state laser system near 280 nm. Applied Physics B. 84(3). 371–373. 39 indexed citations
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Friedenauer, Axel & Erik Sjöqvist. (2003). Noncyclic geometric quantum computation. Physical Review A. 67(2). 23 indexed citations

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