John Goold

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

John Goold is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, John Goold has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 52 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 40 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in John Goold's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (43 papers), Quantum many-body systems (38 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (35 papers). John Goold is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (43 papers), Quantum many-body systems (38 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (35 papers). John Goold collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, United Kingdom and Italy. John Goold's co-authors include Mauro Paternostro, Mark T. Mitchison, Giacomo Guarnieri, Kavan Modi, Stephen R. L. Clark, Felix C. Binder, Francesco Plastina, Vlatko Vedral, Thomas Busch and Adolfo del Campo and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

John Goold

85 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

Enhancing the Charging Po... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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. Enhancing the Charging Power of Quantum Batteries
    2017 316 citations Felix C. Binder, John Goold et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
John Goold 3.0k 2.3k 1.7k 350 214 93 3.6k
H. T. Quan 2.6k 0.9× 2.2k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 575 1.6× 212 1.0× 66 3.2k
Gabriele De Chiara 3.4k 1.1× 1.5k 0.7× 2.0k 1.2× 186 0.5× 486 2.3× 106 3.9k
Michele Campisi 2.2k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.7× 455 1.3× 68 0.3× 62 3.0k
Sebastian Deffner 3.3k 1.1× 2.7k 1.2× 2.4k 1.4× 492 1.4× 49 0.2× 97 4.2k
Janet Anders 1.9k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 302 0.9× 35 0.2× 59 2.4k
Kilian Singer 2.7k 0.9× 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 399 1.1× 152 0.7× 51 3.3k
Alexandre M. Souza 1.7k 0.6× 936 0.4× 1.3k 0.8× 196 0.6× 43 0.2× 51 2.1k
Martí Perarnau-Llobet 1.5k 0.5× 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 252 0.7× 29 0.1× 57 2.1k
Giuliano Benenti 2.1k 0.7× 1.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 321 0.9× 208 1.0× 141 3.0k
Daniel Alonso 1.9k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 1.4k 0.8× 219 0.6× 78 0.4× 64 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Goold

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Goold

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dubi, Yonatan, et al.. (2025). Thermodynamics of photoelectric devices. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 1 indexed citations
2.
Goold, John, et al.. (2025). Information geometry of transitions between quantum nonequilibrium steady states. Physical review. E. 112(2). L022101–L022101.
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Goold, John, et al.. (2024). Can quantum computers do nothing?. npj Quantum Information. 10(1). 124–124. 1 indexed citations
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Silva, Alessandro, et al.. (2024). Powering an autonomous clock with quantum electromechanics. New Journal of Physics. 26(2). 23047–23047. 3 indexed citations
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Mitchison, Mark T., et al.. (2024). Calculating the many-body density of states on a digital quantum computer. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 7 indexed citations
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Kewming, Michael J., et al.. (2024). Entropy production in the mesoscopic-leads formulation of quantum thermodynamics. Physical review. E. 110(1). 14125–14125. 6 indexed citations
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Goold, John, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamics of the Quantum Mpemba Effect. Physical Review Letters. 133(14). 140404–140404. 36 indexed citations
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Purkayastha, Archak, et al.. (2023). Quantum thermodynamics with fast driving and strong coupling via the mesoscopic leads approach. Physical review. B.. 107(19). 17 indexed citations
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Mitchison, Mark T., et al.. (2023). Thermodynamics of decoherence. Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 479(2272). 11 indexed citations
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Mitchison, Mark T., Archak Purkayastha, Marlon Brenes, Alessandro Silva, & John Goold. (2022). Taking the temperature of a pure quantum state. Physical review. A. 105(3). 16 indexed citations
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Brenes, Marlon, Silvia Pappalardi, Mark T. Mitchison, John Goold, & Alessandro Silva. (2021). Out-of-time-order correlations and the fine structure of eigenstate thermalization. Physical review. E. 104(3). 34120–34120. 40 indexed citations
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Eastham, P. R., et al.. (2021). Quantum heat statistics with time-evolving matrix product operators. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 37 indexed citations
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Goold, John & Archak Purkayastha. (2020). Quasiperiodic quantum heat engines with a mobility edge. Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology). 27 indexed citations
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Brenes, Marlon, et al.. (2020). Eigenstate Thermalization in a Locally Perturbed Integrable System. Physical Review Letters. 125(7). 70605–70605. 75 indexed citations
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Brenes, Marlon, John Goold, & Marcos Rigol. (2020). Low-frequency behavior of off-diagonal matrix elements in the integrable XXZ chain and in a locally perturbed quantum-chaotic XXZ chain. Physical review. B.. 102(7). 41 indexed citations
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Brenes, Marlon, Silvia Pappalardi, John Goold, & Alessandro Silva. (2020). Multipartite Entanglement Structure in the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis. Physical Review Letters. 124(4). 40605–40605. 35 indexed citations
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Buča, Berislav, Archak Purkayastha, Giacomo Guarnieri, et al.. (2020). Quantum many-body attractor with strictly local dynamical symmetries. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Binder, Felix C., Sai Vinjanampathy, Kavan Modi, John Goold, & Abdus Salam. (2014). Operational thermodynamics of open quantum systems. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Batalhão, Tiago B., Alexandre M. Souza, Laura Mazzola, et al.. (2014). Experimental Reconstruction of Work Distribution and Study of Fluctuation Relations in a Closed Quantum System. Physical Review Letters. 113(14). 140601–140601. 251 indexed citations
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Clark, Stephen R. L., et al.. (2013). Extracting Quantum Work Statistics and Fluctuation Theorems by Single-Qubit Interferometry. Physical Review Letters. 110(23). 230601–230601. 210 indexed citations

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