Hans Dehmelt

9.2k total citations · 7 hit papers
94 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Hans Dehmelt is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans Dehmelt has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 20 papers in Spectroscopy and 11 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Hans Dehmelt's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (33 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (29 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (20 papers). Hans Dehmelt is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (33 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (29 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (20 papers). Hans Dehmelt collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Hans Dehmelt's co-authors include Robert S. Van Dyck, Warren Nagourney, P. B. Schwinberg, Jon Sandberg, W. Neuhauser, P. E. Toschek, M. Hohenstatt, D. J. Wineland, F. G. Major and G. Gabrielse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Hans Dehmelt

94 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Shelved optical electron amplifier: Observation of quantu... 1968 2026 1987 2006 1986 1987 1978 1980 1968 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. Shelved optical electron amplifier: Observation of quantum jumps
    1986 595 citations Warren Nagourney, Jon Sandberg et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. New high-precision comparison of electron and positrongfactors
    1987 431 citations Robert S. Van Dyck, Hans Dehmelt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Optical-Sideband Cooling of Visible Atom Cloud Confined in Parabolic Well
    1978 349 citations W. Neuhauser, M. Hohenstatt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Localized visibleBa+mono-ion oscillator
    1980 279 citations W. Neuhauser, M. Hohenstatt et al. profile →
  5. Exchange-Collision Technique for the rf Spectroscopy of Stored Ions
    1968 243 citations Hans Dehmelt et al. Physical Review profile →
  6. Principles of the stored ion calorimeter
    1975 226 citations D. J. Wineland, Hans Dehmelt Journal of Applied Physics profile →
  7. Monoion oscillator as potential ultimate laser frequency standard
    1982 222 citations Hans Dehmelt profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hans Dehmelt United States 37 4.8k 1.3k 1.0k 769 585 94 5.7k
T. W. Hänsch Germany 27 3.8k 0.8× 540 0.4× 886 0.9× 462 0.6× 221 0.4× 58 4.0k
F. Biraben France 33 3.6k 0.7× 849 0.6× 232 0.2× 469 0.6× 219 0.4× 121 4.2k
G. Gabrielse United States 42 6.4k 1.3× 1.3k 1.0× 602 0.6× 2.7k 3.5× 713 1.2× 147 8.2k
Martin Weitz Germany 36 4.1k 0.8× 449 0.3× 711 0.7× 321 0.4× 621 1.1× 116 4.4k
Willis E. Lamb United States 37 5.1k 1.1× 1.1k 0.9× 990 1.0× 232 0.3× 595 1.0× 99 6.2k
E. Peik Germany 35 4.8k 1.0× 454 0.3× 418 0.4× 484 0.6× 367 0.6× 102 5.2k
David DeMille United States 41 8.8k 1.8× 1.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.3× 1.5k 1.9× 254 0.4× 112 9.9k
W. Quint Germany 33 3.3k 0.7× 710 0.5× 236 0.2× 1.2k 1.6× 290 0.5× 152 3.7k
Andrei Derevianko United States 45 6.5k 1.4× 529 0.4× 368 0.4× 1.3k 1.7× 135 0.2× 166 7.1k
S. L. Rolston United States 54 10.7k 2.2× 1.3k 1.0× 2.6k 2.5× 413 0.5× 1.2k 2.0× 174 11.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dehmelt, Hans, R. Mittleman, Robert S. Van Dyck, & P. Schwinberg. (1999). Past electron-positron g-2 experiments yielded sharpest bound on CPT violation. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans, R. Mittleman, Robert S. Van Dyck, & P. Schwinberg. (1999). Past Electron-Positrong−2Experiments Yielded Sharpest Bound onCPTViolation for Point Particles. Physical Review Letters. 83(23). 4694–4696. 130 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans, Xiaohui Zhao, Nengwang Yu, & Warren Nagourney. (1996). Excitation transfer spectroscopy with two metastable 138Ba+ ions in same trap.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 93(14). 6861–6862. 1 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1995). Micro-accelerator technique for better geonium data. Physica Scripta. T59. 303–306. 1 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1994). Zero-shift tuning in geonium by variation of trapped charge.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(11). 5043–5045. 4 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans, et al.. (1992). Monitoring electron spin by running geonium atom as microaccelerator.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(12). 5203–5205. 5 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1990). Experiments with an isolated subatomic particle at rest. Optical Society of America Annual Meeting. WA3–WA3. 1 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1990). Eksperimenty s pokoyashcheisya izolirovannoi subatomnoi chastitsei. Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk. 160(12). 129–129. 4 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1990). Experiments with an isolated subatomic particle at rest. Reviews of Modern Physics. 62(3). 525–530. 183 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1989). Geonium spectra⋅electron radius⋅cosmon. AIP conference proceedings. 187. 319–325. 5 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1988). New continuous Stern-Gerlach effect and a hint of “the” elementary particle. Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms Molecules and Clusters. 10(2-3). 127–134. 28 indexed citations
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Nagourney, Warren, Jon Sandberg, & Hans Dehmelt. (1986). Observation of quantum jumps in a single barium ion (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 3. 252. 10 indexed citations
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Gabrielse, G. & Hans Dehmelt. (1981). GEONIUM WITHOUT A MAGNETIC BOTTLE - A NEW GENERATION.. 219–221. 3 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1981). COHERENT SPECTROSCOPY ON SINGLE ATOMIC SYSTEM AT REST IN FREE SPACE II. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 42(C8). C8–299. 11 indexed citations
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Neuhauser, W., et al.. (1978). Visual detection of electrodynamically stored ions (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 68. 623. 3 indexed citations
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Neuhauser, W., M. Hohenstatt, P. E. Toschek, & Hans Dehmelt. (1978). Visual observation and optical cooling of electrodynamically contained ions. Applied Physics A. 17(2). 123–129. 57 indexed citations
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Wineland, D. J. & Hans Dehmelt. (1975). Principles of the stored ion calorimeter. Journal of Applied Physics. 46(2). 919–930. 226 indexed citations breakdown →
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Church, D. A. & Hans Dehmelt. (1969). Radiative Cooling of an Electrodynamically Contained Proton Gas. Journal of Applied Physics. 40(9). 3421–3424. 73 indexed citations
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Schuessler, H. A., E. N. Fortson, & Hans Dehmelt. (1969). Hyperfine Structure of the Ground State ofHe+3by the Ion-Storage Exchange-Collision Technique. Physical Review. 187(1). 5–38. 124 indexed citations
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Dehmelt, Hans. (1964). Comments on ``Optically Pumped Nuclear Magnetometer''. Review of Scientific Instruments. 35(6). 768–768. 4 indexed citations

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