Darrick E. Chang

16.5k total citations · 10 hit papers
100 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Darrick E. Chang is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Darrick E. Chang has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 88 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 35 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Darrick E. Chang's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (44 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (37 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (35 papers). Darrick E. Chang is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (44 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (37 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (35 papers). Darrick E. Chang collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. Darrick E. Chang's co-authors include Mikhail D. Lukin, Frank H. L. Koppens, F. Javier Garcı́a de Abajo, Anders S. Sørensen, H. J. Kimble, Oskar Painter, Philip Hemmer, Eugene Demler, Vladan Vuletić and Chen-Lung Hung and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Darrick E. Chang

98 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

Graphene Plasmonics: A Platform for Strong Light–Matter I... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2011 2007 2011 2007 2006 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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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. Graphene Plasmonics: A Platform for Strong Light–Matter Interactions
    2011 2.1k citations Frank H. L. Koppens, Darrick E. Chang et al. profile →
  2. Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots
    2007 1.1k citations А. В. Акимов, Darrick E. Chang et al. Nature profile →
  3. Electromagnetically induced transparency and slow light with optomechanics
    2011 1.1k citations Darrick E. Chang et al. Nature profile →
  4. A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons
    2007 954 citations Darrick E. Chang, Eugene Demler et al. Nature Physics profile →
  5. Quantum Optics with Surface Plasmons
    2006 598 citations Darrick E. Chang, Philip Hemmer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Quantum nonlinear optics — photon by photon
    2014 527 citations Darrick E. Chang, Vladan Vuletić et al. profile →
  7. Cavity opto-mechanics using an optically levitated nanosphere
    2009 405 citations Darrick E. Chang, H. J. Kimble et al. profile →
  8. Colloquium: Quantum matter built from nanoscopic lattices of atoms and photons
    2018 322 citations Darrick E. Chang et al. profile →
  9. Atom–light interactions in photonic crystals
    2014 322 citations Darrick E. Chang, H. J. Kimble et al. profile →
  10. Quantum many-body models with cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals
    2015 315 citations Alexey V. Gorshkov, H. J. Kimble et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Darrick E. Chang Spain 44 9.2k 4.5k 4.2k 4.0k 2.6k 100 12.2k
Jelena Vučković United States 68 14.5k 1.6× 4.4k 1.0× 11.9k 2.8× 5.0k 1.3× 1.3k 0.5× 357 18.8k
Masaya Notomi Japan 59 11.8k 1.3× 4.0k 0.9× 11.1k 2.6× 1.2k 0.3× 1.7k 0.7× 351 14.2k
Peter Lodahl Denmark 45 7.7k 0.8× 2.2k 0.5× 4.4k 1.0× 3.5k 0.9× 902 0.3× 162 9.5k
Marko Lončar United States 60 10.3k 1.1× 2.3k 0.5× 9.2k 2.2× 1.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 253 14.1k
Oskar Painter United States 71 19.2k 2.1× 3.2k 0.7× 15.4k 3.7× 3.8k 1.0× 871 0.3× 194 21.3k
Jacob B. Khurgin United States 55 6.2k 0.7× 4.2k 0.9× 6.8k 1.6× 663 0.2× 2.7k 1.1× 492 11.6k
Cyriaque Genet France 55 8.7k 1.0× 7.0k 1.5× 2.8k 0.7× 949 0.2× 3.1k 1.2× 150 12.2k
Matthew Pelton United States 49 5.1k 0.6× 4.0k 0.9× 4.1k 1.0× 1.5k 0.4× 2.6k 1.0× 121 9.5k
Alexander N. Poddubny Russia 37 4.7k 0.5× 3.4k 0.7× 2.2k 0.5× 762 0.2× 3.2k 1.2× 168 7.6k
Richard Soref United States 64 10.0k 1.1× 4.0k 0.9× 16.1k 3.8× 1.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.6× 415 18.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ferioli, Giovanni, et al.. (2025). Driven-Dissipative Phase Separation in Free-Space Atomic Ensembles. PRX Quantum. 6(2). 3 indexed citations
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Marino, Jamir, et al.. (2025). Solid-state platform for cooperative quantum dynamics driven by correlated emission. Physical review. B.. 111(6). 5 indexed citations
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Chang, Darrick E., et al.. (2024). Far from equilibrium field theory for strongly coupled light and matter: Dynamics of frustrated multimode cavity QED. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 9 indexed citations
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Torre, Iacopo, Carola M. Purser, Gian Marcello Andolina, et al.. (2024). Valley-Hybridized Gate-Tunable 1D Exciton Confinement in MoSe2. ACS Nano. 18(44). 30283–30292. 5 indexed citations
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Chang, Darrick E., et al.. (2024). Quantum-to-classical crossover in the spin glass dynamics of cavity QED simulators. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 8 indexed citations
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Calajò, Giuseppe, et al.. (2023). Nonlinear quantum logic with colliding graphene plasmons. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Lei, et al.. (2023). Superradiant Detection of Microscopic Optical Dipolar Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 131(25). 253602–253602. 4 indexed citations
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Scigliuzzo, Marco, Giuseppe Calajò, Francesco Ciccarello, et al.. (2022). Controlling Atom-Photon Bound States in an Array of Josephson-Junction Resonators. Physical Review X. 12(3). 48 indexed citations
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High, Alexander A., et al.. (2022). Engineering the radiative dynamics of thermalized excitons with metal interfaces. New Journal of Physics. 24(2). 23015–23015. 2 indexed citations
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Farrera, Pau, et al.. (2021). Transient dynamics of the quantum light retrieved from Rydberg polaritons. New Journal of Physics. 23(6). 63009–63009. 7 indexed citations
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Perczel, J., Johannes Borregaard, Darrick E. Chang, Susanne F. Yelin, & Mikhail D. Lukin. (2020). Topological Quantum Optics Using Atomlike Emitter Arrays Coupled to Photonic Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 124(8). 50 indexed citations
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Moreno-Cardoner, Maria, et al.. (2018). Optimization of photon storage fidelity in ordered atomic arrays. New Journal of Physics. 20(8). 83048–83048. 64 indexed citations
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Chang, Darrick E., Dirk Englund, & Frédéric Peyskens. (2017). Integrated nanoplasmonic quantum interfaces for room-temperature single-photon sources. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations
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Kwek, L. C., et al.. (2017). Optical properties of an atomic ensemble coupled to a band edge of a photonic crystal waveguide. New Journal of Physics. 19(8). 83018–83018. 14 indexed citations
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Hornett, Samuel M., et al.. (2015). All-optical generation of surface plasmons in graphene. Nature Physics. 12(2). 124–127. 164 indexed citations
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Silveiro, Iván, et al.. (2014). Second-order quantum nonlinear optical processes in graphene nanostructures. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Chang, Darrick E., Liang Jiang, Alexey V. Gorshkov, & H. J. Kimble. (2012). Cavity QED with atomic mirrors. New Journal of Physics. 14(6). 63003–63003. 205 indexed citations
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Koppens, Frank H. L., et al.. (2009). A Nanoscale Quantum Interface for Single Atoms. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012(5). 1 indexed citations
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Chang, Darrick E., Vladimir Gritsev, Giovanna Morigi, et al.. (2008). Fermionization of strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional nonlinear medium. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Акимов, А. В., Darrick E. Chang, A. S. Zibrov, et al.. (2007). Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots. Nature. 450(7168). 402–406. 1116 indexed citations breakdown →

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