B. R. Mollow

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

B. R. Mollow is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, B. R. Mollow has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in B. R. Mollow's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (18 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (9 papers). B. R. Mollow is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (18 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers) and Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (9 papers). B. R. Mollow collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. B. R. Mollow's co-authors include M. Ducloy, S. Ezekiel, Faye Wu, Roy J. Glauber, Marvin M. Miller, K. R. Subbaswamy, F. Roddier and D. L. Mills and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Annals of Physics and Physical Review.

In The Last Decade

B. R. Mollow

22 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Power Spectrum of Light Scattered by Two-Level Systems 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 1972 1977 400 800 1.2k
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. Power Spectrum of Light Scattered by Two-Level Systems
    1969 1.4k citations B. R. Mollow Physical Review profile →
  2. Stimulated Emission and Absorption near Resonance for Driven Systems
    1972 538 citations B. R. Mollow Physical review. A, General physics profile →
  3. Observation of Amplification in a Strongly Driven Two-Level Atomic System at Optical Frequencies
    1977 396 citations Faye Wu, S. Ezekiel 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
B. R. Mollow United States 18 3.6k 1.7k 339 339 216 22 3.7k
P. L. Knight United Kingdom 35 4.4k 1.2× 2.5k 1.5× 377 1.1× 236 0.7× 495 2.3× 73 4.5k
D.‐G. Welsch Germany 31 2.7k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 415 1.2× 79 0.2× 206 1.0× 109 3.0k
B. J. Dalton Australia 23 2.1k 0.6× 838 0.5× 163 0.5× 247 0.7× 154 0.7× 103 2.3k
Jamal T. Manassah United States 26 2.1k 0.6× 640 0.4× 420 1.2× 83 0.2× 249 1.2× 161 2.4k
K. Hakuta Japan 27 2.9k 0.8× 946 0.6× 1.1k 3.3× 258 0.8× 52 0.2× 131 3.4k
George R. Welch United States 29 3.1k 0.9× 750 0.4× 359 1.1× 112 0.3× 188 0.9× 76 3.3k
G. Orriols Spain 16 2.0k 0.6× 351 0.2× 236 0.7× 179 0.5× 191 0.9× 41 2.3k
E. Giacobino France 34 4.4k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 748 2.2× 160 0.5× 349 1.6× 97 4.6k
Michael M. Kash United States 15 2.3k 0.6× 402 0.2× 203 0.6× 235 0.7× 272 1.3× 22 2.4k
Jan Mostowski Poland 20 1.4k 0.4× 367 0.2× 270 0.8× 214 0.6× 206 1.0× 65 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of B. R. Mollow

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Mollow, B. R., et al.. (1981). Progress in Optics Volume XIX. 1 indexed citations
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Wu, Faye, S. Ezekiel, M. Ducloy, & B. R. Mollow. (1977). Observation of Amplification in a Strongly Driven Two-Level Atomic System at Optical Frequencies. Physical Review Letters. 38(19). 1077–1080. 396 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mollow, B. R.. (1977). Elastic and inelastic collisional and radiative damping effects on saturated line shapes in the limit of well-separated spectral lines. Physical review. A, General physics. 15(3). 1023–1028. 67 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1976). Atomic decay in saturated resonant light scattering. Physical review. A, General physics. 13(2). 758–762. 21 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1975). Free field-matter commutation relations in operator radiation reaction theory. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 8(11). L130–L132. 29 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1975). Pure-state analysis of resonant light scattering: Radiative damping, saturation, and multiphoton effects. Physical review. A, General physics. 12(5). 1919–1943. 313 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1973). Stationary and Nonstationary Processes in Pumped Resonant Media. Physical review. A, General physics. 8(4). 1949–1961. 24 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1973). Photon Correlations in the Parametric Frequency Splitting of Light. Physical review. A, General physics. 8(5). 2684–2694. 91 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1973). Propagation of Intense Coherent Light Waves in Resonant Media. Physical review. A, General physics. 7(4). 1319–1322. 17 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1972). Absorption and Emission Line-Shape Functions for Driven Atoms. Physical review. A, General physics. 5(3). 1522–1527. 118 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1972). Stimulated Emission and Absorption near Resonance for Driven Systems. Physical review. A, General physics. 5(5). 2217–2222. 538 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mollow, B. R.. (1972). Resonant Multiphoton Excitations by Strong Driving Fields. Physical review. A, General physics. 5(4). 1827–1830. 4 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1971). Saturation Effects in Resonant Two-Photon Processes. Physical review. A, General physics. 4(4). 1666–1670. 24 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1970). Quantum-Mechanical Harmonic Oscillator under a Random Quadratic Perturbation. Physical review. A, General physics. 2(4). 1477–1480. 8 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1969). Power Spectrum of Light Scattered by Two-Level Systems. Physical Review. 188(5). 1969–1975. 1424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mollow, B. R. & Marvin M. Miller. (1969). The damped driven two-level atom. Annals of Physics. 52(3). 464–478. 56 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1968). Quantum Theory of Field Attenuation. Physical Review. 168(5). 1896–1919. 96 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1968). Two-Photon Absorption and Field Correlation Functions. Physical Review. 175(5). 1555–1563. 154 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R. & Roy J. Glauber. (1967). Quantum Theory of Parametric Amplification. II. Physical Review. 160(5). 1097–1108. 192 indexed citations
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Mollow, B. R.. (1967). Quantum Statistics of Coupled Oscillator Systems. Physical Review. 162(5). 1256–1273. 78 indexed citations

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