Igor Lesanovsky

11.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
239 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Igor Lesanovsky is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Igor Lesanovsky has authored 239 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 225 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 93 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 68 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Igor Lesanovsky's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (147 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (86 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (84 papers). Igor Lesanovsky is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (147 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (86 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (84 papers). Igor Lesanovsky collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Austria. Igor Lesanovsky's co-authors include Juan P. Garrahan, Federico Carollo, Sebastian Hofferberth, Jörg Schmiedmayer, P. Zoller, Beatriz Olmos, Markus Müller, Weibin Li, Hendrik Weimer and Hans Peter Büchler and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Igor Lesanovsky

227 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

A Rydberg quantum simulator 2007 2026 2013 2019 2010 2007 100 200 300 400 500
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. A Rydberg quantum simulator
    2010 597 citations Markus Müller, Igor Lesanovsky et al. profile →
  2. Non-equilibrium coherence dynamics in one-dimensional Bose gases
    2007 540 citations Sebastian Hofferberth, Igor Lesanovsky et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Igor Lesanovsky 7.2k 2.8k 1.9k 845 316 239 7.8k
A. O. Caldeira 7.1k 1.0× 3.0k 1.1× 3.0k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 180 0.6× 73 8.2k
Thomas Pohl 6.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.6× 560 0.3× 842 1.0× 348 1.1× 131 6.9k
Augusto Smerzi 9.7k 1.4× 5.0k 1.8× 2.1k 1.1× 449 0.5× 272 0.9× 151 10.5k
Tomaž Prosen 8.9k 1.2× 2.3k 0.8× 5.1k 2.7× 2.4k 2.8× 215 0.7× 229 10.3k
Alexey V. Gorshkov 9.6k 1.3× 5.0k 1.8× 1.3k 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 164 0.5× 195 10.6k
Philipp Hauke 6.2k 0.9× 2.6k 0.9× 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 1.7× 118 0.4× 104 7.0k
Soonwon Choi 5.9k 0.8× 3.2k 1.2× 1.4k 0.7× 887 1.0× 133 0.4× 60 7.4k
Yvan Castin 10.4k 1.4× 2.7k 1.0× 1.7k 0.9× 935 1.1× 617 2.0× 129 10.7k
Alan T. Dorsey 4.7k 0.7× 1.4k 0.5× 969 0.5× 2.3k 2.7× 199 0.6× 51 6.0k
Paolo Zanardi 9.7k 1.4× 7.1k 2.5× 1.9k 1.0× 1.1k 1.3× 122 0.4× 160 10.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Igor Lesanovsky

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Igor Lesanovsky

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lesanovsky, Igor, et al.. (2025). Reaction-diffusion dynamics of the weakly dissipative Fermi gas. New Journal of Physics. 27(8). 84602–84602. 1 indexed citations
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Lesanovsky, Igor, et al.. (2025). Rydberg atom arrays as quantum simulators for molecular dynamics. Physical Review Research. 7(4).
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Mattes, R., Igor Lesanovsky, & Federico Carollo. (2025). Long-Range Interacting Systems Are Locally Noninteracting. Physical Review Letters. 134(7). 70402–70402. 3 indexed citations
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Lesanovsky, Igor, et al.. (2024). Quantum reaction-limited reaction–diffusion dynamics of noninteracting Bose gases. New Journal of Physics. 26(4). 43010–43010. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Zong-Kai, Federico Carollo, Jun Zhang, et al.. (2024). Emergence of subharmonics in a microwave driven dissipative Rydberg gas. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 3 indexed citations
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Lesanovsky, Igor, et al.. (2024). Large Deviation Full Counting Statistics in Adiabatic Open Quantum Dynamics. Physical Review Letters. 132(26). 260402–260402. 3 indexed citations
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Olmos, Beatriz, et al.. (2024). Dipolar ordering transitions in many-body quantum optics: Analytical diagrammatic approach to equilibrium quantum spins. Physical review. A. 110(6). 3 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, Igor Lesanovsky, Mauro Antezza, & Gabriele De Chiara. (2024). Quantum thermodynamics of boundary time-crystals. Quantum Science and Technology. 9(3). 35024–35024. 13 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, et al.. (2023). Dissipative quantum many-body dynamics in (1+1)D quantum cellular automata and quantum neural networks. New Journal of Physics. 25(9). 93020–93020. 3 indexed citations
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Müller, Markus, et al.. (2023). Mean-field dynamics of open quantum systems with collective operator-valued rates: validity and application. New Journal of Physics. 25(8). 83010–83010. 11 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, et al.. (2023). Rydberg-ion flywheel for quantum work storage. Physical review. A. 108(5). 7 indexed citations
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Rose, D. C., Katarzyna Macieszczak, Igor Lesanovsky, & Juan P. Garrahan. (2022). Hierarchical classical metastability in an open quantum East model. Physical review. E. 105(4). 44121–44121. 6 indexed citations
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Lesanovsky, Igor, et al.. (2022). Phonon dressing of a facilitated one-dimensional Rydberg lattice gas. SciPost Physics Core. 5(3). 10 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, et al.. (2022). Metastable discrete time-crystal resonances in a dissipative central spin system. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, et al.. (2022). Anderson and many-body localization in the presence of spatially correlated classical noise. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Carollo, Federico, Antonio Lasanta, & Igor Lesanovsky. (2021). Exponentially accelerated approach to stationarity in Markovian open quantum systems through the Mpemba effect. arXiv (Cornell University). 90 indexed citations
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Macieszczak, Katarzyna, et al.. (2020). Dissipative quantum state preparation and metastability in two-photon micromasers. Physical review. A. 101(4). 6 indexed citations
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Schmidt, Richard, et al.. (2020). Vibrational Dressing in Kinetically Constrained Rydberg Spin Systems. Physical Review Letters. 125(3). 33602–33602. 24 indexed citations
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Pigeon, Simon, André Xuereb, Igor Lesanovsky, et al.. (2015). Dynamical symmetries and crossovers in a three-spin system with collective dissipation. OAR@UM (University of Malta). 5 indexed citations
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Tresp, Christoph, et al.. (2015). Enhancement of single-photon transistor by Stark-tuned F\"orster resonances. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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