Francesco Massel

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Francesco Massel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Massel has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 7 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Francesco Massel's work include Mechanical and Optical Resonators (24 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (16 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers). Francesco Massel is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical and Optical Resonators (24 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (16 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (12 papers). Francesco Massel collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United States and Italy. Francesco Massel's co-authors include Mika A. Sillanpää, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, Tero T. Heikkilä, Erno Damskägg, Pertti Hakonen, Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi, M. Brandt, Muhammad Asjad, Aashish A. Clerk and Matthew J. Woolley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Massel

42 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 100 200 300 400
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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. Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators
    2018 407 citations Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi, Erno Damskägg et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Francesco Massel
Fredrik Hocke Germany
Yi‐Pu Wang China
J.-M. Pirkkalainen Finland
Jennifer Harlow United States
Florent Lecocq United States
Jared Hertzberg United States
René Reimann Switzerland
Xun‐Wei Xu China
A. D. Armour United Kingdom
Kjetil Børkje United States
Fredrik Hocke Germany
Francesco Massel
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Francesco Massel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Francesco Massel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Francesco Massel 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 Francesco Massel. Francesco Massel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2026). Preparation of conditionally squeezed states in qubit-oscillator systems. Physical Review Research. 8(1).
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Brzezicki, Wojciech, Timo Hyart, & Francesco Massel. (2025). Non-Hermitian topology and entanglement in an optomechanical superlattice. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator by a noisy environment. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7395–7395. 2 indexed citations
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Brzezicki, Wojciech, Matti Silveri, Marcin Płodzień, Francesco Massel, & Timo Hyart. (2023). Non-Hermitian topological quantum states in a reservoir-engineered transmon chain. Physical review. B.. 107(11). 3 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Mechanical Detection of the De Haas–van Alphen Effect in Graphene. Nano Letters. 22(24). 9869–9875. 3 indexed citations
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Børkje, Kjetil, Francesco Massel, & Jack Harris. (2021). Nonclassical photon statistics in two-tone continuously driven optomechanics. Physical review. A. 104(6). 5 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco. (2019). Backaction-evading measurement of entanglement in optomechanics. Physical review. A. 100(2). 6 indexed citations
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Ockeloen-Korppi, Caspar, Erno Damskägg, G. S. Paraoanu, Francesco Massel, & Mika A. Sillanpää. (2018). Revealing Hidden Quantum Correlations in an Electromechanical Measurement. Physical Review Letters. 121(24). 243601–243601. 22 indexed citations
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Ockeloen-Korppi, Caspar, Erno Damskägg, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, et al.. (2018). Stabilized entanglement of massive mechanical oscillators. Nature. 556(7702). 478–482. 407 indexed citations breakdown →
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Woolley, Matthew J., Caspar Ockeloen-Korppi, Erno Damskägg, et al.. (2018). Entangled massive mechanical oscillators. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 4 indexed citations
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Ockeloen-Korppi, Caspar, Tero T. Heikkilä, Mika A. Sillanpää, & Francesco Massel. (2017). Theory of phase-mixing amplification in an optomechanical system. Quantum Science and Technology. 2(3). 35002–35002. 8 indexed citations
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Ockeloen-Korppi, Caspar, Erno Damskägg, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, et al.. (2017). Noiseless Quantum Measurement and Squeezing of Microwave Fields Utilizing Mechanical Vibrations. Physical Review Letters. 118(10). 103601–103601. 44 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, Isaac R. Storch, T. S. Abhilash, et al.. (2016). Tunable phonon-cavity coupling in graphene membranes. Nature Nanotechnology. 11(9). 741–746. 124 indexed citations
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Pirkkalainen, J.-M., Erno Damskägg, M. Brandt, Francesco Massel, & Mika A. Sillanpää. (2015). Squeezing of Quantum Noise of Motion in a Micromechanical Resonator. Physical Review Letters. 115(24). 243601–243601. 299 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2012). Multimode circuit optomechanics near the quantum limit. Nature Communications. 3(1). 987–987. 190 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2011). Expansion Dynamics in the One-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model. Physical Review Letters. 106(20). 206401–206401. 44 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, Tero T. Heikkilä, J.-M. Pirkkalainen, et al.. (2011). Microwave amplification with nanomechanical resonators. Nature. 480(7377). 351–354. 235 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2010). Probing the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov Phase by Double Occupancy Modulation Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 104(23). 236402–236402. 33 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2010). Spin-Asymmetric Josephson Effect. Physical Review Letters. 105(22). 225301–225301. 6 indexed citations
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Massel, Francesco, et al.. (2010). Fermi-polaron-like effects in a one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice. New Journal of Physics. 12(7). 73044–73044. 10 indexed citations

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