James Higbie

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

James Higbie is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Ocean Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James Higbie has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 4 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 4 papers in Ocean Engineering. Recurrent topics in James Higbie's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (8 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (5 papers). James Higbie is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (9 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (8 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (5 papers). James Higbie collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. James Higbie's co-authors include Dan Stamper-Kurn, Sabrina Leslie, Lorraine Sadler, Mukund Vengalattore, Dmitry Budker, Simon Rochester, Jennie Guzman, Ronald Holzlöhner, S. Inouye and Kevin L. Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

James Higbie

19 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

  1. Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched ferromagnetic spinor Bose–Einstein condensate
    2006 699 citations Lorraine Sadler, James Higbie et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Higbie United States 12 1.3k 324 167 119 102 19 1.4k
Christian Sanner United States 17 2.4k 1.8× 309 1.0× 193 1.2× 116 1.0× 93 0.9× 31 2.5k
Robert N. C. Pfeifer Australia 12 885 0.7× 338 1.0× 116 0.7× 185 1.6× 54 0.5× 27 1.0k
J. Stühler Germany 20 2.2k 1.6× 400 1.2× 179 1.1× 177 1.5× 132 1.3× 40 2.3k
Anna Minguzzi France 27 2.3k 1.7× 441 1.4× 244 1.5× 193 1.6× 62 0.6× 132 2.4k
I. E. Mazets Russia 25 2.6k 2.0× 394 1.2× 621 3.7× 666 5.6× 44 0.4× 86 2.7k
Chris Vale Australia 22 1.5k 1.2× 388 1.2× 137 0.8× 63 0.5× 50 0.5× 53 1.7k
Chad Orzel United States 9 1.2k 0.9× 99 0.3× 216 1.3× 106 0.9× 28 0.3× 21 1.2k
Roman Barankov United States 13 881 0.7× 316 1.0× 76 0.5× 90 0.8× 130 1.3× 25 1.0k
Justin Bohnet United States 17 1.7k 1.3× 143 0.4× 881 5.3× 270 2.3× 89 0.9× 31 1.8k
T. L. Gustavson United States 13 2.5k 1.9× 152 0.5× 321 1.9× 209 1.8× 122 1.2× 20 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by James Higbie

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Higbie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Higbie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of James Higbie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of James Higbie 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 James Higbie. James Higbie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Patton, Brian, et al.. (2012). A remotely interrogated all-optical  87Rb magnetometer. Applied Physics Letters. 101(8). 83502–83502. 33 indexed citations
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Higbie, James, et al.. (2012). High-speed acousto-optic shutter with no optical frequency shift. Review of Scientific Instruments. 83(8). 83110–83110. 11 indexed citations
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Holzlöhner, Ronald, Simon Rochester, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, et al.. (2012). Simulations of pulsed sodium laser guide stars: an overview. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8447. 84470H–84470H. 9 indexed citations
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Higbie, James, Simon Rochester, Brian Patton, et al.. (2011). Magnetometry with mesospheric sodium. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(9). 3522–3525. 31 indexed citations
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Lee, Changmin, et al.. (2011). Small-sized dichroic atomic vapor laser lock. Review of Scientific Instruments. 82(4). 43107–43107. 11 indexed citations
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Holzlöhner, Ronald, Simon Rochester, Domenico Bonaccini Calia, et al.. (2010). Optimization of cw sodium laser guide star efficiency. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 71 indexed citations
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Holzlöhner, Ronald, Simon Rochester, Thomas Pfrommer, et al.. (2010). Laser guide star return flux simulations based on observed sodium density profiles. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7736. 77360V–77360V. 20 indexed citations
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Jensen, Kasper, Víctor M. Acosta, James Higbie, et al.. (2009). Cancellation of nonlinear Zeeman shifts with light shifts. Physical Review A. 79(2). 48 indexed citations
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Vengalattore, Mukund, James Higbie, Sabrina Leslie, et al.. (2007). High-Resolution Magnetometry with a Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate. Physical Review Letters. 98(20). 200801–200801. 176 indexed citations
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Sadler, Lorraine, James Higbie, Sabrina Leslie, Mukund Vengalattore, & Dan Stamper-Kurn. (2007). Coherence-Enhanced Imaging of a Degenerate Bose-Einstein Gas. Physical Review Letters. 98(11). 110401–110401. 33 indexed citations
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Pustelny, Szymon, Adam M. Wojciechowski, Jerzy Zachorowski, et al.. (2007). <title>All-optical atomic magnetometers based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude modulated light</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 660404–660404. 3 indexed citations
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Sadler, Lorraine, James Higbie, Sabrina Leslie, Mukund Vengalattore, & Dan Stamper-Kurn. (2006). Spontaneous symmetry breaking in a quenched ferromagnetic spinor Bose–Einstein condensate. Nature. 443(7109). 312–315. 699 indexed citations breakdown →
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Higbie, James, Lorraine Sadler, S. Inouye, et al.. (2005). Direct Nondestructive Imaging of Magnetization in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Gas. Physical Review Letters. 95(5). 50401–50401. 167 indexed citations
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Higbie, James & Dan Stamper-Kurn. (2002). Periodically Dressed Bose-Einstein Condensate: A Superfluid with an Anisotropic and Variable Critical Velocity. Physical Review Letters. 88(9). 90401–90401. 60 indexed citations
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Higbie, James. (1980). Precession of a gyroscope. The Physics Teacher. 18(3). 210–210. 3 indexed citations
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Higbie, James. (1978). Off-axis Helmholtz field. American Journal of Physics. 46(10). 1075–1075. 6 indexed citations
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Higbie, James. (1974). The Motorcycle as a Gyroscope. American Journal of Physics. 42(8). 701–702. 5 indexed citations
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Higbie, James. (1970). Resolution of a solid state fission fragment mass spectrometer. Nuclear Instruments and Methods. 82. 253–258. 5 indexed citations

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