Ilja Gerhardt

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Ilja Gerhardt is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilja Gerhardt has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Ilja Gerhardt's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (24 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (22 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (10 papers). Ilja Gerhardt is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (24 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (22 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (10 papers). Ilja Gerhardt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Singapore. Ilja Gerhardt's co-authors include Jörg Wrachtrup, G. Wrigge, Antı́a Lamas-Linares, Christian Kurtsiefer, G. Zumofen, Vadim Makarov, Johannes Skaar, V. Sandoghdar, Christian Hettich and Vahid Sandoghdar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ilja Gerhardt

53 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Coherent control of single spins in silicon carbide at ro... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 100 200 300 400
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  1. Coherent control of single spins in silicon carbide at room temperature
    2014 474 citations Matthias Widmann, Sang‐Yun Lee et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ilja Gerhardt Germany 21 1.7k 985 912 767 341 54 2.6k
Jared H. Cole Australia 30 2.6k 1.5× 1.3k 1.3× 821 0.9× 972 1.3× 258 0.8× 115 3.5k
M. Dagenais United States 32 3.2k 1.9× 1.1k 1.1× 2.9k 3.2× 432 0.6× 462 1.4× 249 5.0k
Fazhan Shi China 30 2.2k 1.3× 660 0.7× 484 0.5× 1.7k 2.3× 146 0.4× 106 3.1k
Sungkun Hong United States 10 2.2k 1.3× 374 0.4× 706 0.8× 2.2k 2.9× 271 0.8× 15 3.2k
Liam P. McGuinness Germany 31 2.2k 1.3× 446 0.5× 526 0.6× 2.7k 3.6× 432 1.3× 47 3.7k
Florian Dolde Germany 17 2.2k 1.3× 536 0.5× 643 0.7× 2.7k 3.6× 316 0.9× 20 3.6k
Helmut Fedder Germany 14 2.0k 1.2× 499 0.5× 787 0.9× 2.4k 3.2× 230 0.7× 24 3.3k
Boris Naydenov Germany 39 3.3k 1.9× 829 0.8× 966 1.1× 4.5k 5.9× 544 1.6× 89 5.9k
Nan Zhao China 23 1.8k 1.1× 494 0.5× 706 0.8× 1.5k 1.9× 282 0.8× 65 2.8k
T. Gaebel Australia 18 2.6k 1.6× 786 0.8× 870 1.0× 3.1k 4.0× 458 1.3× 26 4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilja Gerhardt

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gerhardt, Ilja, et al.. (2023). How to build an optical filter with an atomic vapor cell. New Journal of Physics. 25(12). 125001–125001. 6 indexed citations
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Schell, Andreas W., et al.. (2022). Optical Ramsey spectroscopy on a single molecule. Optica. 9(4). 374–374. 5 indexed citations
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Toninelli, Costanza, Ilja Gerhardt, Alex S. Clark, et al.. (2021). Single organic molecules for photonic quantum technologies. INO Open Portal. 138 indexed citations
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Chen, Xing, et al.. (2019). Single Photon Randomness based on a Defect Center in Diamond. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 18474–18474. 6 indexed citations
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Jetter, Michael, et al.. (2019). Controllable Delay and Polarization Routing of Single Photons. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 3(2). 5 indexed citations
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Widmann, Matthias, Simone Luca Portalupi, Peter Michler, Jörg Wrachtrup, & Ilja Gerhardt. (2018). Faraday Filtering on the Cs-D1-Line for Quantum Hybrid Systems. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. 30(24). 2083–2086. 4 indexed citations
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Jakobi, Ingmar, et al.. (2018). Nanoscale Spin Manipulation with Pulsed Magnetic Gradient Fields from a Hard Disc Drive Writer. Nano Letters. 18(9). 5389–5395. 15 indexed citations
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Striebel, Maren, Jörg Wrachtrup, & Ilja Gerhardt. (2017). Absorption and Extinction Cross Sections and Photon Streamlines in the Optical Near-field. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 15420–15420. 16 indexed citations
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Portalupi, Simone Luca, Matthias Widmann, Cornelius Nawrath, et al.. (2016). Simultaneous Faraday filtering of the Mollow triplet sidebands with the Cs-D1 clock transition. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13632–13632. 35 indexed citations
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Jamali, Mohammad Vahid, Ilja Gerhardt, Mohammad Rezai, et al.. (2014). Fabrication of Solid-Immersion-Lenses by focussed ion beam milling. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Löw, Robert, et al.. (2014). Na-Faraday rotation filtering: The optimal point. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 6552–6552. 52 indexed citations
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Widmann, Matthias, Sang‐Yun Lee, Torsten Rendler, et al.. (2014). Coherent control of single spins in silicon carbide at room temperature. Nature Materials. 14(2). 164–168. 474 indexed citations breakdown →
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Siyushev, Petr, et al.. (2014). Molecular photons interfaced with alkali atoms. Nature. 509(7498). 66–70. 59 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Ilja, Qin Liu, Antı́a Lamas-Linares, et al.. (2011). Experimentally Faking the Violation of Bell’s Inequalities. Physical Review Letters. 107(17). 170404–170404. 83 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Ilja, Qin Liu, Antı́a Lamas-Linares, et al.. (2011). Full-field implementation of a perfect eavesdropper on a quantum cryptography system. Nature Communications. 2(1). 349–349. 323 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Ilja, G. Wrigge, J. Hwang, G. Zumofen, & V. Sandoghdar. (2010). Coherent nonlinear single-molecule microscopy. Physical Review A. 82(6). 23 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Ilja, G. Wrigge, Pavel Bushev, et al.. (2007). Strong Extinction of a Laser Beam by a Single Molecule. Physical Review Letters. 98(3). 33601–33601. 89 indexed citations
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Gerhardt, Ilja, G. Wrigge, Mario Agio, et al.. (2007). Scanning near-field optical coherent spectroscopy of single molecules at 14K. Optics Letters. 32(11). 1420–1420. 16 indexed citations
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Hettich, Christian, et al.. (2003). Coherent optical dipole coupling of two individual molecules at nanometre separation. KOPS (University of Konstanz). 330–330. 1 indexed citations
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Moritz, Werner, et al.. (2000). Photocurrent measurements for laterally resolved interface characterization. Fresenius Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 367(4). 329–333. 35 indexed citations

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