Heng Shen

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Heng Shen is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Heng Shen has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 16 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Heng Shen's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (13 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (12 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (10 papers). Heng Shen is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (13 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (12 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (10 papers). Heng Shen collaborates with scholars based in China, United Kingdom and United States. Heng Shen's co-authors include Jie Li, E. S. Polzik, Cornelius Hempel, Markus Heyl, Tiff Brydges, Petar Jurcevic, B. P. Lanyon, R. Blatt, Christine Maier and C. F. Roos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Heng Shen

28 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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.

  1. Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in an Interacting Many-Body System
    2017 364 citations Petar Jurcevic, Heng Shen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Heng Shen China 12 1.0k 516 188 143 84 33 1.1k
G. Oelsner Germany 12 471 0.4× 291 0.6× 44 0.2× 97 0.7× 68 0.8× 34 559
Ulrich B. Hoff Denmark 10 1.1k 1.1× 721 1.4× 78 0.4× 266 1.9× 16 0.2× 20 1.2k
M. Napolitano Spain 14 785 0.7× 555 1.1× 42 0.2× 37 0.3× 13 0.2× 24 853
Victor Mukherjee India 18 720 0.7× 346 0.7× 375 2.0× 44 0.3× 156 1.9× 37 829
Da Xu China 13 884 0.8× 658 1.3× 95 0.5× 102 0.7× 83 1.0× 22 1.0k
R. J. Sewell Spain 16 779 0.7× 542 1.1× 55 0.3× 39 0.3× 10 0.1× 27 824
Hong Y. Ling United States 17 957 0.9× 245 0.5× 65 0.3× 102 0.7× 53 0.6× 41 1.0k
Ricardo Puebla Spain 17 902 0.9× 698 1.4× 226 1.2× 24 0.2× 53 0.6× 33 973
Bojan Žunkovič Slovenia 13 714 0.7× 223 0.4× 349 1.9× 23 0.2× 157 1.9× 23 816
Pascal Böhi Austria 5 1.0k 1.0× 846 1.6× 52 0.3× 95 0.7× 21 0.3× 6 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Heng Shen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Heng Shen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heng Shen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Heng Shen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Heng Shen 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 Heng Shen. Heng Shen 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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Jiao, Yuechun, et al.. (2025). Observation of multiple time crystals in a driven-dissipative system with Rydberg gas. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8767–8767. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiang, et al.. (2025). Optomechanical sensor network with fiber Bragg gratings. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10795–10795.
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Shen, Heng & Jing Zhang. (2025). Entanglement-enhanced quantum metrology with neutral atom arrays. National Science Review. 12(8). nwaf149–nwaf149.
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Hu, Ying, et al.. (2024). Realizing Exceptional Points by Floquet Dissipative Couplings in Thermal Atoms. Physical Review Letters. 133(13). 133601–133601. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Youwei, et al.. (2024). Concurrent Spin Squeezing and Light Squeezing in an Atomic Ensemble. Physical Review Letters. 133(17). 173604–173604. 1 indexed citations
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Jia, Xin, Weixin Liu, S. Y. Xiao, et al.. (2024). Coherent dressing of ground-state spin in a thermal atomic ensemble. Physical Review Research. 6(4).
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Tian, Long, et al.. (2023). Loss-tolerant and quantum-enhanced interferometer by reversed squeezing processes. Optics Letters. 48(15). 3909–3909. 3 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaoxiong, et al.. (2023). A universal algorithm for defect-free atomic array with arbitrary periodic geometries [Invited]. Chinese Optics Letters. 21(11). 110010–110010.
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Lu, Xingda, Wanxia Cao, Wei Yi, Heng Shen, & Yanhong Xiao. (2021). Nonreciprocity and Quantum Correlations of Light Transport in Hot Atoms via Reservoir Engineering. Physical Review Letters. 126(22). 223603–223603. 39 indexed citations
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Lu, Xingda, et al.. (2021). Adiabaticity in state preparation for spin squeezing of large atom ensembles. Photonics Research. 9(11). 2296–2296. 8 indexed citations
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Cao, Wanxia, et al.. (2020). Reservoir-Mediated Quantum Correlations in Non-Hermitian Optical System. Physical Review Letters. 124(3). 30401–30401. 41 indexed citations
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Shen, Heng, et al.. (2020). Magnetostrictively Induced Stationary Entanglement between Two Microwave Fields. Physical Review Letters. 124(21). 213604–213604. 145 indexed citations
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Chen, Bing, Yanqiang Guo, & Heng Shen. (2020). Spontaneous phase locking of mechanical multimodes in anti-parity-time optomechanics. Optics Express. 28(20). 28762–28762. 5 indexed citations
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Lu, Xingda, Weizhi Qu, Mingfeng Wang, et al.. (2020). Spin squeezing of 1011 atoms by prediction and retrodiction measurements. Nature. 581(7807). 159–163. 114 indexed citations
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Chen, Bing, Shuo Li, Feifei Zhou, et al.. (2020). Digital quantum simulation of Floquet topological phases with a solid-state quantum simulator. Photonics Research. 9(1). 81–81. 26 indexed citations
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Sun, Jian, Weizhi Qu, Е. Е. Михайлов, et al.. (2019). Spatial Multiplexing of Squeezed Light by Coherence Diffusion. Physical Review Letters. 123(20). 203604–203604. 14 indexed citations
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Jurcevic, Petar, Heng Shen, Philipp Hauke, et al.. (2017). Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in an Interacting Many-Body System. Physical Review Letters. 119(8). 80501–80501. 364 indexed citations breakdown →
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Borregaard, Johannes, J. M. Petersen, Heng Shen, et al.. (2016). Scalable photonic network architecture based on motional averaging in room temperature gas. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11356–11356. 29 indexed citations
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Krauter, Hanna, Christine A. Muschik, J. M. Petersen, et al.. (2013). Deterministic quantum teleportation between distant atomic objects. Nature Physics. 9(7). 400–404. 139 indexed citations
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Shen, Heng, Xiaolong Su, Xiaojun Jia, & Changde Xie. (2009). Quantum communication network utilizing quadripartite entangled states of optical field. Physical Review A. 80(4). 12 indexed citations

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