Gil Refael

16.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
168 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Gil Refael is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Gil Refael has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 68 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 33 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Gil Refael's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (74 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (63 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (57 papers). Gil Refael is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (74 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (63 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (57 papers). Gil Refael collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Gil Refael's co-authors include Felix von Oppen, Yuval Oreg, Netanel H. Lindner, Victor Galitski, Jason Alicea, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Eugene Demler, Joel E. Moore, Torsten Karzig and Charles-Edouard Bardyn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gil Refael

160 papers receiving 11.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Helical Liquids and Majorana Bound States in Quantum Wires

2010 2.3k citations Yuval Oreg, Gil Refael et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Floquet topological insulator in semiconductor quantum wells

2011 1.3k citations Netanel H. Lindner, Gil Refael et al. Nature Physics profile →
Non-Abelian statistics and topological quantum information processing in 1D wire networks

2011 1.2k citations Jason Alicea, Yuval Oreg et al. Nature Physics profile →
Majorana Fermions in Equilibrium and in Driven Cold-Atom Quantum Wires

2011 556 citations Liang Jiang, Jason Alicea et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Electronic correlations in twisted bilayer graphene near the magic angle

2019 477 citations Yang Peng, Jason Alicea et al. Nature Physics profile →
Building a Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computer Using Concatenated Cat Codes

2022 172 citations Gil Refael, Liang Jiang et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Self-Similar Phase Diagram of the Fibonacci-Driven Quantum Ising Model 2025 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Yang Peng, Gil Refael, Felix von Oppen	2
2	Signatures of Floquet electronic steady states in graphene under continuous-wave mid-infrared irradiation 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Christopher Yang, Georg Gaertner, (unknown), A. V. Suslov, Gil Refael, Frederik Nathan, Cyprian Lewandowski, Luis E. F. Foa Torres, (unknown), Paola Barbara, Nikolai G. Kalugin	4
3	Hyperbolic phonon-polariton electroluminescence in 2D heterostructures 2025 ·Nature ·Qiushi Guo, (unknown), Cheng Li, Chen Chen, Guanyu Han, Song Liu, James H. Edgar, (unknown), Eugene Demler, Gil Refael, Fengnian Xia	4
4	Time-hidden magnetic order in a multi-orbital Mott insulator 2025 ·Nature Physics ·Xinwei Li, (unknown), Youngjoon Han, (unknown), Hengdi Zhao, (unknown), C. R. Barrett, (unknown), Kyle L. Seyler, Gang Cao, Gil Refael, David Hsieh	1
5	Ephemeral superconductivity atop the false vacuum 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Stevan Nadj-Perge, Gil Refael	0
6	Enhancing shift current response via virtual multiband transitions 2024 ·Communications Physics ·(unknown), Swati Chaudhary, Gil Refael, Cyprian Lewandowski	6
7	Decoupling of static and dynamic criticality in a driven Mott insulator 2022 ·Communications Physics ·A. de la Torre, Kyle L. Seyler, Michael Buchhold, Yuval Baum, (unknown), N. J. Laurita, John Harter, Liuyan Zhao, Isabelle Phinney, Xiang Chen, Stephen D. Wilson, Gang Cao, Richard D. Averitt, Gil Refael, David Hsieh	10
8	Signatures of Ultrafast Reversal of Excitonic Order in Ta2NiSe5 2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Michael Buchhold, Takashi Kurumaji, Gil Refael, J. G. Checkelsky, David Hsieh	18
9	Ultrafast Enhancement of Ferromagnetic Spin Exchange Induced by Ligand-to-Metal Charge Transfer 2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·A. Ron, Swati Chaudhary, Guang J. Zhang, (unknown), (unknown), Stephen D. Wilson, Richard D. Averitt, Gil Refael, David Hsieh	22
10	Light-induced evaporative cooling of holes in the Hubbard model 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Philipp Werner, Martin Eckstein, Markus Müller, Gil Refael	23
11	Topologically protected braiding in a single wire using Floquet Majorana modes 2019 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Torsten Karzig, Bela Bauer, T. Pereg-Barnea, (unknown), Gil Refael, Erez Berg, Yuval Oreg	1
12	Floquet flat-band engineering of twisted bilayer graphene 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Or Katz, Gil Refael, Netanel H. Lindner	1
13	Absence of thermalization in finite isolated interacting Floquet systems 2018 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), Paraj Titum, Michael Kolodrubetz, Gil Refael	35
14	MBL-mobile: Many-body-localized engine 2017 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Nicole Yunger Halpern, Christopher D. White, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Gil Refael	2
15	Disorder-Induced Floquet Topological Insulators 2015 ·Physical Review Letters ·Paraj Titum, Netanel H. Lindner, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Gil Refael	180
16	Topological polaritons from quantum wells in photonic waveguides or microcavities 2014 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Torsten Karzig, Charles-Edouard Bardyn, Netanel H. Lindner, Gil Refael	2
17	Unconventional Josephson Signatures of Majorana Bound States 2011 ·Physical Review Letters ·Liang Jiang, David Pekker, Jason Alicea, Gil Refael, Yuval Oreg, Felix von Oppen	120
18	Non-Abelian statistics and topological quantum computation in 1D wire networks 2010 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Jason Alicea, Yuval Oreg, Gil Refael, Felix von Oppen, Matthew P. A. Fisher	1
19	Topological Anderson Insulator in Three Dimensions 2010 ·Physical Review Letters ·Huaiming Guo, G. Rosenberg, Gil Refael, Marcel Franz	158
20	Phase Transition in a System of One-Dimensional Bosons with Strong Disorder 2004 ·Physical Review Letters ·Ehud Altman, Yariv Kafri, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Gil Refael	84

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