Jeff D. Thompson

5.6k total citations · 6 hit papers
44 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Jeff D. Thompson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff D. Thompson has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Jeff D. Thompson's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (17 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (16 papers). Jeff D. Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (17 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (16 papers). Jeff D. Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Jeff D. Thompson's co-authors include Jack Harris, Andrew M. Jayich, Benjamin M. Zwickl, Mikhail D. Lukin, Vladan Vuletić, Florian Marquardt, S. M. Girvin, T. G. Tiecke, Nathalie P. de Leon and A. S. Zibrov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jeff D. Thompson

42 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Strong dispersive coupling of a high-finesse cavity to a micromechanical membrane

2008 1.0k citations Jeff D. Thompson et al. Nature profile →
Nanophotonic quantum phase switch with a single atom

2014 385 citations T. G. Tiecke, Jeff D. Thompson et al. Nature profile →
Coupling a Single Trapped Atom to a Nanoscale Optical Cavity

2013 342 citations Jeff D. Thompson, T. G. Tiecke et al. Science profile →
Erasure conversion for fault-tolerant quantum computing in alkaline earth Rydberg atom arrays

2022 122 citations Shimon Kolkowitz, Shruti Puri et al. Nature Communications profile →
High-fidelity gates and mid-circuit erasure conversion in an atomic qubit

2023 118 citations Pai Peng, Bichen Zhang et al. Nature profile →
Spectroscopy and Modeling of Yb171 Rydberg States for High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gates

2025 18 citations Yiyi Li, Pai Peng et al. Physical Review X profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeff D. Thompson United States	26	3.5k	1.7k	1.4k	307	295	44	3.9k
Yutaka Tabuchi Japan	17	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	198 0.6×	227 0.8×	37	3.1k
Tracy E. Northup Austria	23	3.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	796 0.5×	220 0.7×	228 0.8×	46	3.4k
Shangqing Gong China	34	3.9k 1.1×	1.5k 0.9×	884 0.6×	223 0.7×	131 0.4×	229	4.1k
Jay E. Sharping United States	28	3.7k 1.1×	813 0.5×	3.3k 2.3×	307 1.0×	197 0.7×	83	4.4k
David Hunger Germany	24	2.3k 0.7×	873 0.5×	979 0.7×	232 0.8×	843 2.9×	54	2.7k
Susanne F. Yelin United States	31	3.4k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	391 0.3×	222 0.7×	265 0.9×	117	3.8k
Jakob Reichel France	36	5.2k 1.5×	1.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.8×	245 0.8×	425 1.4×	96	5.5k
Arne Laucht Australia	30	3.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	168 0.5×	406 1.4×	72	3.5k
Lin Chang United States	32	3.5k 1.0×	525 0.3×	3.9k 2.7×	266 0.9×	210 0.7×	130	4.6k
A. D. Boozer United States	15	3.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	814 0.6×	241 0.8×	95 0.3×	39	3.9k

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Rovny, Jared, et al.. (2025). Massively Multiplexed Nanoscale Magnetometry with Diamond Quantum Sensors. Physical Review X. 15(3). 2 indexed citations

Dusanowski, Łukasz, et al.. (2025). Spin-Photon Entanglement of a Single Er3+ Ion in the Telecom Band. Physical Review X. 15(1). 9 indexed citations

Li, Yiyi, Pai Peng, Bichen Zhang, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopy and Modeling of Yb171 Rydberg States for High-Fidelity Two-Qubit Gates. Physical Review X. 15(1). 18 indexed citations breakdown →

Zhang, Bichen, Pai Peng, Aditya S. Paul, & Jeff D. Thompson. (2024). Scaled local gate controller for optically addressed qubits. Optica. 11(2). 227–227. 16 indexed citations

Thompson, Jeff D., et al.. (2024). Rephasing spectral diffusion in time-bin spin-spin entanglement protocols. Physical review. A. 110(5). 3 indexed citations

Li, Yiyi & Jeff D. Thompson. (2024). High-Rate and High-Fidelity Modular Interconnects between Neutral Atom Quantum Processors. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 19 indexed citations

Dusanowski, Łukasz, Sebastian P. Horvath, Christopher M. Phenicie, et al.. (2023). Indistinguishable telecom band photons from a single Er ion in the solid state. Nature. 620(7976). 977–981. 75 indexed citations

Jandura, Sven, Jeff D. Thompson, & Guido Pupillo. (2023). Optimizing Rydberg Gates for Logical-Qubit Performance. PRX Quantum. 4(2). 33 indexed citations

Jin, Lun, Xianghan Xu, Danrui Ni, et al.. (2023). Erbium-Excess Gallium Garnets. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(34). 13731–13737. 3 indexed citations

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Claes, Jahan, et al.. (2023). High-Threshold Codes for Neutral-Atom Qubits with Biased Erasure Errors. Physical Review X. 13(4). 36 indexed citations

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Raha, Mouktik, Songtao Chen, Christopher M. Phenicie, et al.. (2023). Coherent Control of a Nuclear Spin via Interactions with a Rare-Earth Ion in the Solid State. PRX Quantum. 4(1). 19 indexed citations

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Horvath, Sebastian P., et al.. (2022). Er-doped anatase TiO2 thin films on LaAlO3 (001) for quantum interconnects (QuICs). Applied Physics Letters. 121(8). 11 indexed citations

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Burgers, A. P., et al.. (2022). Universal Gate Operations on Nuclear Spin Qubits in an Optical Tweezer Array of Yb171 Atoms. Physical Review X. 12(2). 82 indexed citations

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Wilson, Jack T., et al.. (2022). Trapping Alkaline Earth Rydberg Atoms Optical Tweezer Arrays. Physical Review Letters. 128(3). 33201–33201. 72 indexed citations

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Kolkowitz, Shimon, et al.. (2022). Erasure conversion for fault-tolerant quantum computing in alkaline earth Rydberg atom arrays. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4657–4657. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Phenicie, Christopher M., Paul Stevenson, Sacha Welinski, et al.. (2019). Narrow Optical Line Widths in Erbium Implanted in TiO₂. Nano Letters. 19(12). 8928–8933. 35 indexed citations

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Nicholson, Travis, Michael J. Gullans, Alexey V. Gorshkov, et al.. (2018). Observation of three-photon bound states in a quantum nonlinear medium. Science. 359(6377). 783–786. 98 indexed citations

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Gullans, Michael J., T. G. Tiecke, Darrick E. Chang, et al.. (2012). Nanoplasmonic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms. Physical Review Letters. 109(23). 235309–235309. 97 indexed citations

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Smith, Jay, et al.. (2000). Idiopathic Transient Osteoporosis. The Physician and Sportsmedicine. 28(4). 82–96. 11 indexed citations

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Lawrence, J. M., S. M. Shapiro, J. L. Sarrao, Z. Fisk, & Jeff D. Thompson. (1996). Inelastic Neutron Scattering in Single Crystal YbInCu_4. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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