Christoph Simon

19.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
188 papers, 12.4k citations indexed

About

Christoph Simon is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Simon has authored 188 papers receiving a total of 12.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 119 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 31 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Christoph Simon's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (116 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (75 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (57 papers). Christoph Simon is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (116 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (75 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (57 papers). Christoph Simon collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Christoph Simon's co-authors include Nicolas Gisin, Hugues de Riedmatten, Nicolas Sangouard, Anton Zeilinger, Mikael Afzelius, Gregor Weihs, Thomas Jennewein, Harald Weinfurter, Jian-Wei Pan and Dik Bouwmeester and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Simon

172 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles an... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2011 1998 2000 2003 2000 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. Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics
    2011 1.3k citations Nicolas Sangouard, Christoph Simon et al. profile →
  2. Violation of Bell's Inequality under Strict Einstein Locality Conditions
    1998 856 citations Christoph Simon et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Quantum Cryptography with Entangled Photons
    2000 659 citations Christoph Simon et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Towards Quantum Superpositions of a Mirror
    2003 646 citations Christoph Simon et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Feasible Entanglement Purification for Quantum Communication
    2000 561 citations Jian-Wei Pan, Christoph Simon et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  6. Multimode quantum memory based on atomic frequency combs
    2009 414 citations Mikael Afzelius, Christoph Simon et al. Physical Review A profile →
  7. Quantum Repeaters with Photon Pair Sources and Multimode Memories
    2007 393 citations Christoph Simon, Hugues de Riedmatten 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
Christoph Simon Canada 53 11.2k 9.1k 2.0k 566 345 188 12.4k
Wolfgang Tittel Canada 41 13.1k 1.2× 11.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.4× 293 0.5× 439 1.3× 130 14.9k
Philippe Grangier France 40 10.3k 0.9× 9.5k 1.0× 1.5k 0.7× 709 1.3× 469 1.4× 115 12.2k
Hugo Zbinden Switzerland 58 14.6k 1.3× 14.2k 1.6× 3.7k 1.8× 355 0.6× 318 0.9× 191 17.7k
Paul G. Kwiat United States 59 15.8k 1.4× 13.7k 1.5× 2.5k 1.2× 789 1.4× 190 0.6× 220 17.7k
Thomas Jennewein Canada 43 7.6k 0.7× 7.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 364 0.6× 83 0.2× 134 8.9k
Gregor Weihs Austria 38 8.8k 0.8× 5.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 515 0.9× 239 0.7× 114 9.5k
Aephraim M. Steinberg Canada 45 6.2k 0.6× 4.3k 0.5× 978 0.5× 736 1.3× 86 0.2× 142 7.1k
Howard M. Wiseman Australia 60 13.2k 1.2× 11.9k 1.3× 1.1k 0.5× 1.9k 3.4× 157 0.5× 264 14.3k
A. G. White Australia 50 12.5k 1.1× 11.4k 1.3× 2.8k 1.4× 789 1.4× 536 1.6× 146 15.3k
Z. Y. Ou United States 39 8.0k 0.7× 6.7k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 294 0.5× 94 0.3× 141 8.8k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

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Simon, Christoph, D. M. Silevitch, P. C. E. Stamp, & T. F. Rosenbaum. (2024). Quantum Barkhausen noise induced by domain wall cotunneling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(13). e2315598121–e2315598121. 1 indexed citations
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Oblak, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Towards a realistic model for cavity-enhanced atomic frequency comb quantum memories. Quantum Science and Technology. 9(3). 35049–35049.
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Simon, Christoph, et al.. (2024). Quantum theory of a potential biological magnetic field sensor: Radical pair mechanism in flavin adenine dinucleotide biradicals. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal. 26. 70–77. 1 indexed citations
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Javadi-Abhari, Ali, et al.. (2023). The power of one clean qubit in supervised machine learning. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 19975–19975. 8 indexed citations
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Higginbottom, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Memory and Transduction Prospects for Silicon T Center Devices. PRX Quantum. 4(2). 15 indexed citations
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Goswami, Sumit, et al.. (2022). Simulation of many-body dynamics using Rydberg excitons. Quantum Science and Technology. 7(3). 35016–35016. 10 indexed citations
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Ghobadi, Roohollah, et al.. (2022). Ab initio and group theoretical study of properties of a carbon trimer defect in hexagonal boron nitride. Physical review. B.. 105(18). 29 indexed citations
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Salahub, Dennis R., et al.. (2022). Radical pairs may explain reactive oxygen species-mediated effects of hypomagnetic field on neurogenesis. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(6). e1010198–e1010198. 23 indexed citations
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Gehlen, Heidrun, Christoph Simon, Antina Lübke‐Becker, et al.. (2020). Basis-Hygienemaßnahmen für den Pferdetierarzt in Praxis und Klinik. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3 indexed citations
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Wein, Stephen C., et al.. (2020). Quantum repeaters based on individual electron spins and nuclear-spin-ensemble memories in quantum dots. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Simon, Christoph. (2019). Can Quantum Physics Help Solve the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 26. 6 indexed citations
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Braverman, Boris & Christoph Simon. (2013). Proposal to Observe the Nonlocality of Bohmian Trajectories with Entangled Photons. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Ghobadi, Roohollah, A. I. Lvovsky, & Christoph Simon. (2013). Creating and Detecting Micro-Macro Photon-Number Entanglement by Amplifying and Deamplifying a Single-Photon Entangled State. Physical Review Letters. 110(17). 170406–170406. 21 indexed citations
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Pepper, Brian, Roohollah Ghobadi, E. Jeffrey, Christoph Simon, & Dirk Bouwmeester. (2011). Postselected optomechanical superpositions. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Lauritzen, Björn, Jiří Minář, Hugues de Riedmatten, et al.. (2009). Solid state quantum memory for photons at telecommunication wavelengths. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Halder, M., A. Beveratos, Corentin Jorel, et al.. (2007). Entanglement Swapping with independent CW-Sources. 1–1. 1 indexed citations
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Tóth, G., Christoph Simon, & J. I. Cirac. (2003). Entanglement detection based on interference and particle counting (6 pages). Physical Review A. 68(6). 62310. 3 indexed citations
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Simon, Christoph & Jian-Wei Pan. (2002). Polarization Entanglement Purification using Spatial Entanglement. Physical Review Letters. 89(25). 257901–257901. 254 indexed citations

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