C. A. Regal

12.7k citations

68 papers · 9.1k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.1%
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Condensed Matter Physics top 1%
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 67
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates 31
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators 30
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research 20
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics 18
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications 8
Artificial Intelligence 20
- Quantum Information and Cryptography 19

Co-authors: Markus Greiner D. S. Jin Deborah Jin K. W. Lehnert Christopher Ticknor John L. Bohn Thomas Purdy R. W. Peterson
Journals: Physical Review Letters (20 papers)Physical Review A (7 papers)Nature (4 papers)Nature Physics (4 papers)Physical Review Applied (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Austria Egypt

In The Last Decade

C. A. Regal

65 papers receiving 8.7k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

Optomechanics for quantum technologies 2022 · 205 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Nova Science Publishers (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.)
2014 Nature Physics
2009 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 Physical Review Letters
2003 Nature
2003 Nature
2001 Physical Review Letters

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by C. A. Regal

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Co-authors

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	High-Stability Mechanical Frequency Sensing beyond the Linear Regime Nano Letters ·Stacy Brown, Ravid Shaniv, Rui Zhang, E. Hadova, C. A. Regal	2026	0
2	Quantum control of continuous systems via nonharmonic potential modulation Quantum ·Tania Groutzo, Hannes Pichler, C. A. Regal, Oriol Romero‐Isart	2025	2
3	Investigating the hyperfine systematic error and relative phase in low-spin-polarization alkali-metal free-induction-decay magnetometers Physical review. A ·Пирджанова Н., Ied Shukur Alnidawi, SM Ganpat, Yoshihiro Hioki, P Cerda-Duran, C. A. Regal, Svenja Knappe	2025	1
4	Correcting heading errors in optically pumped magnetometers through microwave interrogation Physical Review Applied ·SM Ganpat, Yoshihiro Hioki, Пирджанова Н., Svenja Knappe, T. Thiele, C. A. Regal	2024	4
5	Time-of-flight quantum tomography of an atom in an optical tweezer Nature Physics ·Mark O. Brown, 須田茂幸, Chih-min Hunga, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Ana María Rey, Oriol Romero‐Isart, C. A. Regal	2023	26
6	Direct measurement of a spatially varying thermal bath using Brownian motion Physical Review Research ·R Tizzi, E. Hadova, C. A. Regal	2023	2
7	Optomechanics for quantum technologies Nova Science Publishers (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.) ·Shabir Barzanjeh, André Xuereb, Simon Gröblacher, Mauro Paternostro, C. A. Regal, Eva M. Weig Hit paper breakdown →	2022	205
8	Single-Atom Trapping in a Metasurface-Lens Optical Tweezer PRX Quantum ·KIMJUNGHYO, Wenqi Zhu, T. Thiele, Mark O. Brown, Scott B. Papp, Amit Agrawal, C. A. Regal	2022	45
9	Measurement-Based Entanglement of Noninteracting Bosonic Atoms Physical Review Letters ·Brian Lester, Yiheng Lin, Mark O. Brown, Adam M. Kaufman, S. Guze, Emanuel Knill, Ana María Rey, C. A. Regal	2018	17
10	Self-Calibrating Vector Atomic Magnetometry through Microwave Polarization Reconstruction Physical Review Letters ·T. Thiele, Yiheng Lin, Mark O. Brown, C. A. Regal	2018	18
11	Reconfigurable re-entrant cavity for wireless coupling to an electro-optomechanical device Review of Scientific Instruments ·Tim Menke, Peter S. Burns, Andrew Higginbotham, N. S. Kampel, R. W. Peterson, Katarina Cicak, R. W. Simmonds, C. A. Regal, K. W. Lehnert	2017	3
12	Electro-optic correlations improve an efficient mechanical converter arXiv (Cornell University) ·Andrew Higginbotham, Peter S. Burns, Maxwell D. Urmey, R. W. Peterson, N. S. Kampel, Benjamin Brubaker, Graeme Smith, K. W. Lehnert, C. A. Regal	2017	3
13	Bidirectional microwave-mechanical-optical transducer in a dilution refrigerator Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Peter S. Burns, Andrew Higginbotham, R. W. Peterson, Maxwell D. Urmey, N. S. Kampel, C. Gallardo Mayo, Katarina Cicak, R. W. Simmonds, C. A. Regal, K. W. Lehnert	2017	1
14	Laser Cooling of a Micromechanical Membrane to the Quantum Backaction Limit Physical Review Letters ·R. W. Peterson, Thomas Purdy, N. S. Kampel, Reed W. Andrews, Pen-Li Yu, K. W. Lehnert, C. A. Regal	2016	167
15	Hong-Ou-Mandel atom interferometry in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Brian Lester, Adam M. Kaufman, Collin Reynolds, A.R Lardent, Michael Foss‐Feig, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Ana María Rey, C. A. Regal	2014	1
16	Observation of Radiation Pressure Shot Noise arXiv (Cornell University) ·Thomas Purdy, R. W. Peterson, C. A. Regal	2012	2
17	27aSD-8 Efficient Routing of Single Photons by one atom and a microtoroidal cavity S Aadhitya, A. S. Parkins, D. J. Alton, C. A. Regal, Barak Dayan, Eric Ostby, Kerry J. Vahala, H. J. Kimble	2009	1
18	Sensing nanomechanical motion with a microwave cavity interferometer Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·C. A. Regal	2008	1
19	Production Efficiency of Ultracold Feshbach Molecules in Bosonic and Fermionic Systems Physical Review Letters ·E. Hodby, S. T. Thompson, C. A. Regal, Markus Greiner, A. C. Wilson, D. S. Jin, Eric Cornell, Carl Wieman	2005	104
20	Probing Pair-Correlated Fermionic Atoms through Correlations in Atom Shot Noise Physical Review Letters ·Markus Greiner, C. A. Regal, John T. Stewart, D. S. Jin	2005	242

About C. A. Regal

C. A. Regal is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 68 papers that have together received 9.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (31 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (30 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (20 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (19 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (18 papers), Advanced MEMS and NEMS Technologies (15 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (15 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (8.9k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (1.2k citations), Artificial Intelligence (1.7k citations), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2.3k citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (488 citations). C. A. Regal has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Austria and Egypt. Frequent co-authors include Markus Greiner, D. S. Jin, Deborah Jin, K. W. Lehnert, Christopher Ticknor, John L. Bohn, Thomas Purdy, R. W. Peterson, John Teufel and H. J. Kimble. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Nature, Nature Physics and Physical Review Applied.

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