Harold Metcalf

6.2k citations
71 papers · 4.2k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 24
Topics
Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (39 papers)Atomic and Molecular Physics (19 papers)Quantum optics and atomic interactions (12 papers)

In The Last Decade

Harold Metcalf

70 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Laser Cooling and Trapping197820261994201019991978198819821985250500750

Peers

Harold Metcalf
Comparison fields: 5 of 102
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 3.7k
  • Artificial Intelligence 687
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 680
  • Spectroscopy 601
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 234
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Fields of papers citing papers by Harold Metcalf

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harold Metcalf

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All Works

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1 1
2 29
3 20
4 18
5 8
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Excitation of Metastable Helium Atoms to Rydberg States by STIRAP
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7 200
8 9
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Observation of Atoms Laser Cooled below the Doppler Limitbreakdown →
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10 183
11 88
12 2
13 6
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Laser Deceleration of an Atomic Beambreakdown →
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15 20
16 14
17 3
18 42
19 3
20 9

About Harold Metcalf

Harold Metcalf is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, having authored 71 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (39 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (19 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (12 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (3.7k citations), Spectroscopy (601 citations) and Acoustics and Ultrasonics (25 citations). Harold Metcalf has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and China. Frequent co-authors include P. van der Straten, William D. Phillips, Michael G. Littman, John V. Prodan, T. Bergeman, Alan L. Migdall, Paul D. Lett, C. I. Westbrook, Phillip L. Gould and R. N. Watts. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

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