Daniel Leykam

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel Leykam is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Leykam has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 32 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 22 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Daniel Leykam's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (34 papers), Nonlinear Photonic Systems (32 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (22 papers). Daniel Leykam is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (34 papers), Nonlinear Photonic Systems (32 papers) and Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies (22 papers). Daniel Leykam collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, South Korea and Australia. Daniel Leykam's co-authors include Y. D. Chong, Sergej Flach, Franco Nori, Konstantin Y. Bliokh, Alexei Andreanov, Chunli Huang, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Daria A. Smirnova and Yuri S. Kivshar and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Leykam

75 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Edge Modes, Degeneracies, and Topological Numbers in Non-... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Edge Modes, Degeneracies, and Topological Numbers in Non-Hermitian Systems
    2017 569 citations Daniel Leykam, Y. D. Chong et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Artificial flat band systems: from lattice models to experiments
    2018 356 citations Daniel Leykam, Sergej Flach et al. Advances in Physics X profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Leykam Singapore 27 3.2k 1.3k 487 410 311 80 3.6k
Julia M. Zeuner Germany 11 4.0k 1.2× 978 0.8× 644 1.3× 542 1.3× 499 1.6× 23 4.2k
Hannah M. Price Italy 19 3.9k 1.2× 646 0.5× 692 1.4× 466 1.1× 420 1.4× 43 4.2k
Daohong Song China 23 2.0k 0.6× 798 0.6× 356 0.7× 258 0.6× 232 0.7× 100 2.2k
Yonatan Plotnik Israel 17 5.1k 1.6× 1.5k 1.2× 958 2.0× 767 1.9× 515 1.7× 50 5.5k
Alexander Cerjan United States 21 1.6k 0.5× 542 0.4× 406 0.8× 232 0.6× 150 0.5× 67 1.8k
Elena A. Ostrovskaya Australia 38 4.7k 1.5× 2.5k 2.0× 430 0.9× 221 0.5× 150 0.5× 121 5.0k
Fabrice Mortessagne France 24 1.4k 0.5× 783 0.6× 382 0.8× 155 0.4× 240 0.8× 69 2.0k
Jianming Wen United States 27 3.2k 1.0× 808 0.6× 846 1.7× 174 0.4× 293 0.9× 72 3.6k
Yaacov E. Kraus Israel 12 2.1k 0.7× 350 0.3× 191 0.4× 179 0.4× 532 1.7× 14 2.3k
Mario I. Molina Chile 23 1.8k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 378 0.8× 141 0.3× 135 0.4× 113 2.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Leykam, Daniel, Haoran Xue, Baile Zhang, & Y. D. Chong. (2025). Limitations and possibilities of topological photonics. Nature Reviews Physics. 8(1). 55–64. 1 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, et al.. (2025). Collective nature of high-Q resonances in finite-size photonic metastructures. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 3 indexed citations
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Song, Limin, Shiqi Xia, Yongsheng Liang, et al.. (2025). Bulk-Hole Correspondence and Inner Robust Boundary Modes in Singular Flatband Lattices. Physical Review Letters. 134(6). 63803–63803.
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Mak, Adrian M., et al.. (2024). Computing electronic correlation energies using linear depth quantum circuits. Quantum Science and Technology. 9(2). 25003–25003. 2 indexed citations
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Angelakis, Dimitris G., et al.. (2024). Unsupervised learning of quantum many-body scars using intrinsic dimension. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 5(2). 25049–25049. 1 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel. (2024). Flat bands, sharp physics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 34(1). 6 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Res-U2Net: untrained deep learning for phase retrieval and image reconstruction. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 41(5). 766–766. 4 indexed citations
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Smirnov, Lev A., et al.. (2024). Identifying topology of leaky photonic lattices with machine learning. Nanophotonics. 13(3). 271–281. 2 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Photonic Flatband Resonances in Multiple Light Scattering. Physical Review Letters. 132(4). 43803–43803. 10 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel & Dimitris G. Angelakis. (2023). Topological data analysis and machine learning. Advances in Physics X. 8(1). 14 indexed citations
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Li, Guangzhen, et al.. (2023). Moiré Lattice in One-Dimensional Synthetic Frequency Dimension. Physical Review Letters. 130(14). 143801–143801. 28 indexed citations
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Mančić, A., Daniel Leykam, & Aleksandra Maluckov. (2023). Band relaxation triggered by modulational instability in topological photonic lattices. Physica Scripta. 98(5). 55513–55513. 3 indexed citations
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Stojanović, Mirjana, et al.. (2022). Nonlinear compact localized modes in flux-dressed octagonal-diamond lattice. Physica Scripta. 97(3). 30006–30006. 1 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Boosting topological zero modes using elastomer waveguide arrays. Optics Letters. 47(18). 4620–4620. 2 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, et al.. (2021). Probing Band Topology Using Modulational Instability. Physical Review Letters. 126(7). 73901–73901. 19 indexed citations
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Gligorić, Goran, Daniel Leykam, & Aleksandra Maluckov. (2020). Influence of different disorder types on Aharonov-Bohm caging in the diamond chain. Physical review. A. 101(2). 14 indexed citations
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Rhim, Jun‐Won, Liqin Tang, Shiqi Xia, et al.. (2020). Observation of non-contractible loop states in a photonic Kagome lattice of Corbino-geometry. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FW4A.3–FW4A.3. 2 indexed citations
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Smirnova, Daria A., Sergey Kruk, Daniel Leykam, et al.. (2018). Nonlinear mapping of photonic topological edge states. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Leykam, Daniel, Mikael C. Rechtsman, & Y. D. Chong. (2016). Anomalous Topological Phases and Unpaired Dirac Cones in Photonic Floquet Topological Insulators. Physical Review Letters. 117(1). 13902–13902. 117 indexed citations

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