James K. Thompson

4.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

James K. Thompson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Automotive Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, James K. Thompson has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Automotive Engineering. Recurrent topics in James K. Thompson's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (50 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (30 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (26 papers). James K. Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (50 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (30 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (26 papers). James K. Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. James K. Thompson's co-authors include Joshua M. Weiner, Justin Bohnet, Zilong Chen, Ana María Rey, Vladan Vuletić, Murray Holland, Matthew A. Norcia, Kevin C. Cox, Julia Cline and David E. Pritchard and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

James K. Thompson

87 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James K. Thompson United States	27	2.5k	1.2k	187	171	168	92	2.9k
Martin Weitz Germany	36	4.1k 1.6×	711 0.6×	399 2.1×	321 1.9×	621 3.7×	116	4.4k
Arnaud Landragin France	33	3.4k 1.3×	308 0.3×	218 1.2×	50 0.3×	147 0.9×	87	3.9k
Steven R. Jefferts United States	24	2.9k 1.2×	527 0.5×	336 1.8×	60 0.4×	72 0.4×	107	3.1k
Erling Riis United Kingdom	32	3.5k 1.4×	668 0.6×	707 3.8×	90 0.5×	183 1.1×	146	3.8k
G. Birkl Germany	29	2.5k 1.0×	881 0.8×	157 0.8×	78 0.5×	220 1.3×	82	2.7k
Yvan R. P. Sortais France	25	2.0k 0.8×	699 0.6×	207 1.1×	84 0.5×	51 0.3×	49	2.3k
Kai Bongs United Kingdom	35	5.1k 2.1×	434 0.4×	190 1.0×	56 0.3×	906 5.4×	110	5.5k
G. Brida Italy	31	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	417 2.2×	21 0.1×	200 1.2×	136	2.9k
Chr. Tamm Germany	26	3.1k 1.2×	125 0.1×	359 1.9×	229 1.3×	209 1.2×	49	3.4k
Davide Calonico Italy	26	2.0k 0.8×	308 0.3×	635 3.4×	51 0.3×	34 0.2×	108	2.5k

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Rey, Ana María, et al.. (2025). Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity. Science. 390(6776). 925–929. 1 indexed citations

Schäfer, Vera M., et al.. (2025). Many-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition. Physical Review Letters. 134(11). 113403–113403.

Schäfer, Vera M., et al.. (2025). Continuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms. Nature Physics. 21(6). 902–908.

Cline, Julia, et al.. (2025). Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity. Physical Review Letters. 134(1). 13403–13403. 4 indexed citations

Young, Dylan J., Diego Barberena, Vera M. Schäfer, et al.. (2025). Time-Resolved Spectral Gap Spectroscopy in a Quantum Simulator of Fermionic Superfluidity inside an Optical Cavity. Physical Review Letters. 134(18). 183404–183404.

Rey, Ana María, et al.. (2025). Hamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity. Nature Physics. 21(6). 916–923. 3 indexed citations

Young, Dylan J., Diego Barberena, Vera M. Schäfer, et al.. (2024). Observing dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator. Nature. 625(7996). 679–684. 22 indexed citations

Reilly, J., et al.. (2024). Entangled matter waves for quantum enhanced sensing. Physical review. A. 110(4). 3 indexed citations

Sundar, Bhuvanesh, Diego Barberena, Asier Piñeiro Orioli, et al.. (2023). Bosonic Pair Production and Squeezing for Optical Phase Measurements in Long-Lived Dipoles Coupled to a Cavity. Physical Review Letters. 130(11). 113202–113202. 11 indexed citations

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Polloreno, Anthony, et al.. (2023). Opportunities and Limitations in Broadband Sensing. Physical Review Applied. 19(1). 1 indexed citations

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Bartolotta, John P., Simon B. Jäger, J. Reilly, et al.. (2022). Entropy transfer from a quantum particle to a classical coherent light field. Physical Review Research. 4(1). 1 indexed citations

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Lewis-Swan, Robert J., Diego Barberena, Julia Cline, et al.. (2021). Cavity-QED Quantum Simulator of Dynamical Phases of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor. Physical Review Letters. 126(17). 173601–173601. 23 indexed citations

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Muniz, Juan A., Dylan J. Young, Julia Cline, & James K. Thompson. (2021). Cavity-QED measurements of the Sr87 millihertz optical clock transition and determination of its natural linewidth. Physical Review Research. 3(2). 25 indexed citations

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Cline, Julia, et al.. (2021). Continuous loading and transport of strontium atoms in a ring cavity. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Barberena, Diego, Robert J. Lewis-Swan, James K. Thompson, & Ana María Rey. (2020). Atom-light entanglement for precise field sensing in the optical domain. Physical review. A. 102(5). 2 indexed citations

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Thompson, James K., et al.. (2019). Continuous Real-Time Tracking of a Quantum Phase Below the Standard Quantum Limit. Physical Review Letters. 122(23). 233602–233602. 17 indexed citations

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Norcia, Matthew A., Robert J. Lewis-Swan, Julia Cline, et al.. (2018). Cavity-mediated collective spin-exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser. Science. 361(6399). 259–262. 144 indexed citations

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Cox, Kevin C., et al.. (2016). Deterministic Squeezed States with Joint Measurements and Feedback. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2016. 2 indexed citations

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Simon, Jonathan, Haruka Tanji, James K. Thompson, & Vladan Vuletić. (2007). Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons. Physical Review Letters. 98(18). 183601–183601. 117 indexed citations

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Thompson, James K., et al.. (1991). Criteria for Ship Movements in Harbours. 146(22). 3074–3087. 6 indexed citations

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