Christoph Clausen

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 805 citations indexed

About

Christoph Clausen is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Clausen has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 805 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christoph Clausen's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (7 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (3 papers). Christoph Clausen is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (7 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (3 papers). Christoph Clausen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Austria and Germany. Christoph Clausen's co-authors include Mikael Afzelius, Félix Bussières, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Sangouard, Imam Usmani, Hugues de Riedmatten, Francesco Marsili, Alexey Tiranov, Alban Ferrier and Philipp Schneeweiß and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Photonics.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Clausen

11 papers receiving 780 citations

Hit Papers

Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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. Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal
    2011 351 citations Christoph Clausen, Imam Usmani et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Christoph Clausen Switzerland 8 724 459 159 57 32 12 805
Alexey Tiranov Switzerland 16 683 0.9× 524 1.1× 202 1.3× 72 1.3× 42 1.3× 34 830
Imam Usmani Switzerland 12 1.1k 1.5× 639 1.4× 202 1.3× 64 1.1× 21 0.7× 15 1.1k
Jeongwan Jin Canada 10 822 1.1× 523 1.1× 245 1.5× 51 0.9× 31 1.0× 21 910
E. Fraval Australia 6 722 1.0× 248 0.5× 141 0.9× 92 1.6× 36 1.1× 7 778
Jan Huwer Germany 15 487 0.7× 326 0.7× 178 1.1× 76 1.3× 43 1.3× 25 569
N. B. Manson Australia 7 607 0.8× 185 0.4× 140 0.9× 83 1.5× 36 1.1× 9 657
Sarah E. Beavan Australia 9 605 0.8× 302 0.7× 145 0.9× 122 2.1× 17 0.5× 12 686
Clemens Matthiesen United Kingdom 13 776 1.1× 458 1.0× 336 2.1× 120 2.1× 38 1.2× 22 898
Johannes Otterbach Germany 15 1.1k 1.6× 554 1.2× 100 0.6× 103 1.8× 22 0.7× 26 1.2k
Ioana Craiciu United States 9 440 0.6× 183 0.4× 221 1.4× 126 2.2× 38 1.2× 17 578

Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Clausen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Clausen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Christoph Clausen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Christoph Clausen. The network helps show where Christoph Clausen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Clausen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christoph Clausen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christoph Clausen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Christoph Clausen. Christoph Clausen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Scheel, Stefan, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Christoph Clausen, & Philipp Schneeweiß. (2015). Directional spontaneous emission and lateral Casimir-Polder force on an atom close to a nanofiber. Physical Review A. 92(4). 45 indexed citations
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Bussières, Félix, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, et al.. (2014). Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory. Nature Photonics. 8(10). 775–778. 189 indexed citations
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Bussières, Félix, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, et al.. (2014). Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory. 70. FTu2A.4–FTu2A.4. 5 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Nicolas Sangouard, & Michael Drewsen. (2013). Analysis of a photon number resolving detector based on fluorescence readout of an ion Coulomb crystal quantum memory inside an optical cavity. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 9 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Félix Bussières, Mikael Afzelius, & Nicolas Gisin. (2012). Quantum Storage of Heralded Polarization Qubits in Birefringent and Anisotropically Absorbing Materials. Physical Review Letters. 108(19). 190503–190503. 66 indexed citations
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Usmani, Imam, Christoph Clausen, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2012). Heralded quantum entanglement between two crystals. Nature Photonics. 6(4). 234–237. 101 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Imam Usmani, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2012). Heralded Quantum Entanglement between two Rare-Earth-Ion Doped Crystals. QT3A.5–QT3A.5. 1 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Imam Usmani, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2011). Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal. Nature. 469(7331). 508–511. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Herskind, Peter F., et al.. (2007). Second-harmonic generation of light at 544 and 272 nm from an ytterbium-doped distributed-feedback fiber laser. Optics Letters. 32(3). 268–268. 18 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph. (2005). <i>Macbeth</i> Multiplied.
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Clausen, Christoph, et al.. (2004). Associating Different Curvatures with Fracture Distribution Characterization. 1 indexed citations

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