J. Britton

11.8k total citations · 7 hit papers
68 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

J. Britton is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Britton has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in J. Britton's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (23 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (22 papers). J. Britton is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (23 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (22 papers). J. Britton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Serbia. J. Britton's co-authors include D. Leibfried, J. D. Jost, Wayne M. Itano, C. Langer, John Chiaverini, Roee Ozeri, D. J. Wineland, R. B. Blakestad, M. D. Barrett and Emanuel Knill and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

J. Britton

62 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Experimental demonstration of a robust, high-fidelity geometric two ion-qubit phase gate

2003 793 citations D. Leibfried, Brian DeMarco et al. Nature profile →
Deterministic quantum teleportation of atomic qubits

2004 661 citations M. D. Barrett, John Chiaverini et al. Nature profile →
Creation of a six-atom ‘Schrödinger cat’ state

2005 651 citations D. Leibfried, Emanuel Knill et al. Nature profile →
Engineered two-dimensional Ising interactions in a trapped-ion quantum simulator with hundreds of spins

2012 632 citations J. Britton, Brian C. Sawyer et al. Nature profile →
Randomized benchmarking of quantum gates

2008 577 citations Emanuel Knill, D. Leibfried et al. Physical Review A profile →
Toward Heisenberg-Limited Spectroscopy with Multiparticle Entangled States

2004 470 citations D. Leibfried, M. D. Barrett et al. profile →
Quantum spin dynamics and entanglement generation with hundreds of trapped ions

2016 349 citations Justin Bohnet, Brian C. Sawyer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
J. Britton United States	34	6.5k	5.7k	536	345	254	68	7.5k
Roee Ozeri Israel	38	5.5k 0.8×	3.9k 0.7×	359 0.7×	254 0.7×	143 0.6×	106	6.2k
D. Kielpinski United States	25	5.6k 0.9×	4.1k 0.7×	383 0.7×	443 1.3×	211 0.8×	75	6.2k
D. J. Wineland United States	37	8.7k 1.3×	6.6k 1.2×	583 1.1×	502 1.5×	115 0.5×	76	9.6k
Hartmut Häffner United States	31	5.6k 0.9×	4.6k 0.8×	346 0.6×	368 1.1×	104 0.4×	77	6.3k
D. Leibfried United States	62	12.3k 1.9×	10.3k 1.8×	1.0k 2.0×	540 1.6×	165 0.6×	155	14.0k
Thomas Monz Austria	32	4.5k 0.7×	4.3k 0.8×	417 0.8×	385 1.1×	205 0.8×	88	5.9k
W. Hänsel Germany	26	5.3k 0.8×	3.8k 0.7×	829 1.5×	194 0.6×	80 0.3×	61	5.9k
C. Langer United States	24	5.0k 0.8×	4.7k 0.8×	377 0.7×	135 0.4×	46 0.2×	40	5.8k
John Chiaverini United States	28	4.2k 0.6×	3.5k 0.6×	607 1.1×	228 0.7×	45 0.2×	75	5.0k
C. F. Roos Austria	53	11.8k 1.8×	9.2k 1.6×	571 1.1×	1.3k 3.9×	650 2.6×	114	13.2k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Britton, J., et al.. (2020). On the Direct Generation of Ion-Photon Entanglement at Telecom Wavelengths in 171Yb+. QW6A.12–QW6A.12. 1 indexed citations

Gilmore, Kevin, et al.. (2017). Amplitude Sensing below the Zero-Point Fluctuations with a Two-Dimensional Trapped-Ion Mechanical Oscillator. Physical Review Letters. 118(26). 263602–263602. 38 indexed citations

Sawyer, Brian C., Justin Bohnet, J. Britton, & J. J. Bollinger. (2015). Reversing hydride-ion formation in quantum-information experiments withBe+. Physical Review A. 91(1). 19 indexed citations

Sawyer, Brian C., J. Britton, Adam C. Keith, et al.. (2012). Spectroscopy and Thermometry of Drumhead Modes in a Mesoscopic Trapped-Ion Crystal Using Entanglement. Physical Review Letters. 108(21). 213003–213003. 45 indexed citations

Biercuk, Michael J., Hermann Uys, J. Britton, Aaron P. VanDevender, & J. J. Bollinger. (2010). Ultrasensitive detection of force and displacement using trapped ions. Nature Nanotechnology. 5(9). 646–650. 125 indexed citations

Britton, J., J. P. Nibarger, K. W. Yoon, et al.. (2010). Corrugated silicon platelet feed horn array for CMB polarimetry at 150 GHz. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7741. 77410T–77410T. 23 indexed citations

VanDevender, Aaron P., C. Ospelkaus, Jason Amini, et al.. (2009). High Fidelity Transport of Trapped-Ion Qubits through an X-Junction Trap Array | NIST. Nature Physics. 102.

Blakestad, R. B., C. Ospelkaus, Aaron P. VanDevender, et al.. (2009). High-Fidelity Transport of Trapped-Ion Qubits through anX-Junction Trap Array. Physical Review Letters. 102(15). 153002–153002. 107 indexed citations

Knill, Emanuel, D. Leibfried, R. Reichle, et al.. (2008). Randomized benchmarking of quantum gates. Physical Review A. 77(1). 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wesenberg, J. H., Jason Amini, R. B. Blakestad, et al.. (2007). Analytical methods for design of surface-electrode ion traps. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 38. 1 indexed citations

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Amini, Jason, S. Seidelin, J. H. Wesenberg, et al.. (2007). Multilayer Interconnects for Microfabricated Surface Electrode Ion Traps. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 38. 1 indexed citations

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Reichle, R., D. Leibfried, Emanuel Knill, et al.. (2006). Experimental purification of two-atom entanglement. Nature. 443(7113). 838–841. 128 indexed citations

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Chiaverini, John, R. B. Blakestad, J. Britton, et al.. (2005). Surface-electrode architecture for ion-trap quantum information processing. Quantum Information and Computation. 5(6). 419–439. 152 indexed citations

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Chiaverini, John, D. Leibfried, Tobias Schaetz, et al.. (2004). Realization of quantum error correction | NIST. Nature. 432. 1 indexed citations

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Chiaverini, John, D. Leibfried, Tobias Schaetz, et al.. (2004). Realization of quantum error correction. Nature. 432(7017). 602–605. 340 indexed citations

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Schaetz, Tobias, M. D. Barrett, D. Leibfried, et al.. (2004). Quantum Dense Coding with Atomic Qubits. Physical Review Letters. 93(4). 40505–40505. 86 indexed citations

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Leibfried, D., Brian DeMarco, V. Meyer, et al.. (2003). Towards quantum information with trapped ions at NIST. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 36(3). 599–612. 16 indexed citations

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Leibfried, D., Brian DeMarco, V. Meyer, et al.. (2003). Experimental demonstration of a robust, high-fidelity geometric two ion-qubit phase gate. Nature. 422(6930). 412–415. 793 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeMarco, Brian, et al.. (2002). First steps toward a multiplexed trapped ion quantum processor. 264–264.

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Leibfried, D., Brian DeMarco, V. Meyer, et al.. (2002). Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator: Experimental Application to Nonlinear Interferometers. Physical Review Letters. 89(24). 247901–247901. 92 indexed citations

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