Jan Wiersig

11.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
148 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Jan Wiersig is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Wiersig has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 69 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 56 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Jan Wiersig's work include Photonic and Optical Devices (63 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (35 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (34 papers). Jan Wiersig is often cited by papers focused on Photonic and Optical Devices (63 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (35 papers) and Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices (34 papers). Jan Wiersig collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and South Korea. Jan Wiersig's co-authors include Lan Yang, Weijian Chen, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Martina Hentschel, Guangming Zhao, Hui Cao, F. Jahnke, Christopher Gies, Julius Kullig and Julia Unterhinninghofen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jan Wiersig

142 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Exceptional points enhance sensing in an optical microcavity

2017 1.4k citations Weijian Chen, Şahin Kaya Özdemir et al. Nature profile →
Enhancing the Sensitivity of Frequency and Energy Splitting Detection by Using Exceptional Points: Application to Microcavity Sensors for Single-Particle Detection

2014 711 citations Jan Wiersig Physical Review Letters profile →
Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics

2015 479 citations Hui Cao, Jan Wiersig Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
Chiral modes and directional lasing at exceptional points

2016 447 citations Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Weijian Chen et al. profile →
Review of exceptional point-based sensors

2020 281 citations Jan Wiersig profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan Wiersig Germany	37	7.1k	3.1k	3.1k	948	723	148	8.1k
Matthias Heinrich Germany	42	5.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.5×	740 0.8×	876 1.2×	155	6.5k
Felix Dreisow Germany	34	5.2k 0.7×	2.0k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	658 0.7×	736 1.0×	87	6.0k
Andrey A. Sukhorukov Australia	43	5.8k 0.8×	3.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.6×	506 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	296	6.8k
Stefano Longhi Italy	61	13.0k 1.8×	6.4k 2.1×	3.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	1.1k 1.6×	414	14.5k
A. Amo France	40	8.5k 1.2×	1.3k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	1.0k 1.1×	1.7k 2.3×	113	9.0k
Peter W. Milonni United States	43	5.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	1.3k 1.3×	390 0.5×	176	6.6k
A. Douglas Stone United States	33	7.1k 1.0×	2.7k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	657 0.7×	2.2k 3.1×	69	9.2k
Yaakov Lumer Israel	26	6.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	445 0.5×	751 1.0×	72	6.7k
Tsampikos Kottos United States	36	6.6k 0.9×	5.2k 1.7×	678 0.2×	367 0.4×	289 0.4×	178	7.5k
Mohammad‐Ali Miri United States	31	6.8k 1.0×	4.2k 1.4×	1.2k 0.4×	522 0.6×	381 0.5×	95	7.4k

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Kullig, Julius & Jan Wiersig. (2025). Calculating the spectral response strength of non-Hermitian systems with an exceptional point directly from wave simulations. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 2 indexed citations

Kullig, Julius, et al.. (2025). Graph-theoretical approach to the eigenvalue spectrum of perturbed higher-order exceptional points. Physical Review Research. 7(2).

Kullig, Julius, Qi Zhong, Jan Wiersig, & Ramy El‐Ganainy. (2025). Exceptional Points and Lasing Thresholds: When Lower-Q Modes Win. Physical Review Letters. 135(17). 173802–173802.

Schürmann, Helmut, F. Bertram, Gordon Schmidt, et al.. (2024). GaN Quantum Dots in Resonant Cavity Nanopillars as Deep‐UV Single‐Photon Sources. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters. 18(11).

Jiang, Xuefeng, Shixiong Yin, Huanan Li, et al.. (2023). Coherent control of chaotic optical microcavity with reflectionless scattering modes. Nature Physics. 20(1). 109–115. 19 indexed citations

Wiersig, Jan. (2023). Petermann factors and phase rigidities near exceptional points. Physical Review Research. 5(3). 17 indexed citations

Liu, Shuai, Jan Wiersig, Wenzhao Sun, et al.. (2018). Transporting the Optical Chirality through the Dynamical Barriers in Optical Microcavities. Laser & Photonics Review. 12(10). 25 indexed citations

Yi, Chang-Hwan, Julius Kullig, Chil-Min Kim, & Jan Wiersig. (2017). Frequency splittings in deformed optical microdisk cavities. Physical review. A. 96(2). 10 indexed citations

Chen, Weijian, Şahin Kaya Özdemir, Guangming Zhao, Jan Wiersig, & Lan Yang. (2017). Exceptional points enhance sensing in an optical microcavity. Nature. 548(7666). 192–196. 1392 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cao, Hui & Jan Wiersig. (2015). Dielectric microcavities: Model systems for wave chaos and non-Hermitian physics. Reviews of Modern Physics. 87(1). 61–111. 479 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benyoucef, Mohamed, et al.. (2011). Quality-factor enhancement of supermodes in coupled microdisks. Optics Letters. 36(8). 1317–1317. 47 indexed citations

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Wiersig, Jan, Jeong-Bo Shim, Jung-Wan Ryu, et al.. (2011). Nonorthogonal pairs of copropagating optical modes in deformed microdisk cavities. Physical Review A. 84(2). 77 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Susumu, et al.. (2009). Ray-wave correspondence in limaçon-shaped semiconductor microcavities. Physical Review A. 80(3). 59 indexed citations

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Ulrich, S. M., Christopher Gies, Serkan Ateş, et al.. (2007). Photon Statistics of Semiconductor Microcavity Lasers. Physical Review Letters. 98(4). 43906–43906. 153 indexed citations

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Gies, Christopher, Jan Wiersig, Michael Lorke, & F. Jahnke. (2007). Semiconductor model for quantum-dot-based microcavity lasers. Physical Review A. 75(1). 118 indexed citations

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Ahn, Kang-Hun, Hee Chul Park, Jan Wiersig, & Jongbae Hong. (2006). Current Rectification by Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Coupled Nanomechanical Shuttles. Physical Review Letters. 97(21). 216804–216804. 21 indexed citations

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Sebald, K., J. Gutowski, C. Kruse, et al.. (2006). Efficient coupling into confined optical modes of ZnSe‐based pillar microcavities. physica status solidi (b). 243(4). 844–848. 1 indexed citations

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Wiersig, Jan & Gabriel G. Carlo. (2003). Evanescent wave approach to diffractive phenomena in convex billiards with corners. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(4). 46221–46221. 1 indexed citations

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Wiersig, Jan. (2001). Resonance Zones in Action Space. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 56(8). 537–556. 2 indexed citations

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Wiersig, Jan & Péter Richter. (1996). Energy Surfaces of Ellipsoidal Billiards. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A. 51(4). 219–241. 5 indexed citations

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