John J. L. Morton

11.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
117 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

John J. L. Morton is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, John J. L. Morton has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 32 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in John J. L. Morton's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (69 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (28 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (21 papers). John J. L. Morton is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (69 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (28 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (21 papers). John J. L. Morton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. John J. L. Morton's co-authors include Arzhang Ardavan, Alexei M. Tyryshkin, S. A. Lyon, Simon C. Benjamin, H. Riemann, Peter Becker, M. L. W. Thewalt, J. Jarryd, G. A. D. Briggs and Nikolai V. Abrosimov and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

John J. L. Morton

115 papers receiving 7.6k 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.

Will Spin-Relaxation Times in Molecular Magnets Permit Quantum Information Processing?

2007 647 citations Arzhang Ardavan, John J. L. Morton et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
A single-atom electron spin qubit in silicon

2012 563 citations J. Jarryd, John J. L. Morton et al. Nature profile →
Electron spin coherence exceeding seconds in high-purity silicon

2011 493 citations John J. L. Morton, T. Schenkel et al. profile →
High-fidelity readout and control of a nuclear spin qubit in silicon

2013 379 citations J. Jarryd, John J. L. Morton et al. Nature profile →
Spin-enhanced nanodiamond biosensing for ultrasensitive diagnostics

2020 261 citations Benjamin S. Miller, Léonard Bezinge et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John J. L. Morton United Kingdom	39	5.3k	2.4k	2.3k	2.1k	935	117	7.8k
Arzhang Ardavan United Kingdom	48	3.2k 0.6×	3.1k 1.3×	944 0.4×	1.5k 0.7×	2.7k 2.9×	187	7.3k
S. A. Lyon United States	40	4.6k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	982 0.4×	3.6k 1.7×	372 0.4×	199	7.0k
Vladimir Chernyak United States	42	4.5k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	384 0.2×	1.8k 0.8×	475 0.5×	219	7.0k
Jianshu Cao United States	52	6.6k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	893 0.4×	857 0.4×	219 0.2×	199	8.4k
YiJing Yan China	42	10.2k 1.9×	776 0.3×	4.2k 1.8×	1.7k 0.8×	199 0.2×	230	11.6k
Davıd L. Andrews United Kingdom	42	5.1k 1.0×	953 0.4×	881 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	980 1.0×	340	7.0k
Norikazu Mizuochi Japan	29	3.2k 0.6×	3.5k 1.4×	818 0.4×	1.4k 0.6×	418 0.4×	115	5.3k
Christian L. Degen Switzerland	33	5.1k 1.0×	3.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	398 0.4×	109	7.3k
Paola Cappellaro United States	38	6.8k 1.3×	4.4k 1.8×	2.6k 1.1×	1.3k 0.6×	208 0.2×	130	9.1k
Jasper Knoester Netherlands	50	6.4k 1.2×	1.7k 0.7×	219 0.1×	1.5k 0.7×	432 0.5×	193	8.5k

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Kalendra, Vidmantas, James O’Sullivan, Adam Brookfield, et al.. (2025). Pushing the sensitivity boundaries of X-band EPR cryoprobe using a fast microwave switch. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 23. 100196–100196.

González-Zalba, M. Fernando, et al.. (2025). Rapid cryogenic characterization of 1,024 integrated silicon quantum dot devices. Nature Electronics. 8(1). 75–83. 3 indexed citations

Morton, John J. L., et al.. (2024). CMOS on-chip thermometry at deep cryogenic temperatures. Applied Physics Reviews. 11(2). 10 indexed citations

Kalendra, Vidmantas, Adelheid Godt, Gunnar Jeschke, et al.. (2023). Q-band EPR cryoprobe. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 356. 107573–107573. 4 indexed citations

O’Sullivan, James, Christoph W. Zollitsch, Mantas Šimėnas, et al.. (2022). Random-Access Quantum Memory Using Chirped Pulse Phase Encoding. Physical Review X. 12(4). 13 indexed citations

Šimėnas, Mantas, James O’Sullivan, Sarah Fearn, et al.. (2022). Near-SurfaceTe+125Spins with Millisecond Coherence Lifetime. Physical Review Letters. 129(11). 117701–117701. 5 indexed citations

Lehtinen, J. S., Alberto Ronzani, A. Shchepetov, et al.. (2021). Dispersive readout of reconfigurable ambipolar quantum dots in a silicon-on-insulator nanowire. Applied Physics Letters. 118(16). 8 indexed citations

O’Sullivan, James, et al.. (2021). Strain in heterogeneous quantum devices with atomic layer deposition. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 1(4). 45002–45002. 1 indexed citations

Wright, John J., Mantas Šimėnas, William K. Myers, et al.. (2021). Functional basis of electron transport within photosynthetic complex I. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5387–5387. 25 indexed citations

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Miller, Benjamin S., Léonard Bezinge, Harriet D. Gliddon, et al.. (2020). Spin-enhanced nanodiamond biosensing for ultrasensitive diagnostics. Nature. 587(7835). 588–593. 261 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burnett, Jonathan, et al.. (2019). Tunable Nb Superconducting Resonator Based on a Constriction Nano-SQUID Fabricated with a Ne Focused Ion Beam. Physical Review Applied. 11(1). 26 indexed citations

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Cai, Zhenyu, et al.. (2019). A Silicon Surface Code Architecture Resilient Against Leakage Errors. Quantum. 3. 212–212. 14 indexed citations

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Gil‐Ramírez, Guzmán, Hassane El Mkami, Kyriakos Porfyrakis, et al.. (2018). Distance Measurement of a Noncovalently Bound Y@C₈₂ Pair with Double Electron Electron Resonance Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(24). 7420–7424. 10 indexed citations

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Nickerson, Naomi, et al.. (2016). A silicon-based surface code quantum computer. npj Quantum Information. 2(1). 40 indexed citations

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Bienfait, Audrey, J. Jarryd, Yuimaru Kubo, et al.. (2015). Reaching the quantum limit of sensitivity in electron spin resonance. Nature Nanotechnology. 11(3). 253–257. 134 indexed citations

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Wolfowicz, Gary, Hannes Maier-Flaig, Robert A. Marino, et al.. (2015). Coherent Storage of Microwave Excitations in Rare-Earth Nuclear Spins. Physical Review Letters. 114(17). 170503–170503. 62 indexed citations

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Lo, C. C., Jing Li, Ian Appelbaum, & John J. L. Morton. (2014). Microwave Manipulation of Electrically Injected Spin-Polarized Electrons in Silicon. Physical Review Applied. 1(1). 2 indexed citations

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Brown, Richard M., Yasuhiro Ito, Jamie H. Warner, et al.. (2010). Electron spin coherence in metallofullerenes: Y, Sc, andLa@C82. Physical Review B. 82(3). 34 indexed citations

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Simmons, Stephanie, Jonathan A. Jones, Steven D. Karlen, Arzhang Ardavan, & John J. L. Morton. (2009). Magnetic field sensors using large cat states beyond the standard quantum limit. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Morton, John J. L., Nicholas S. Lees, Brian M. Hoffman, & Stefan Stoll. (2008). Nuclear relaxation effects in Davies ENDOR variants. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 191(2). 315–321. 11 indexed citations

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