Kevin P. O’Brien

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Kevin P. O’Brien is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin P. O’Brien has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 19 papers in Materials Chemistry and 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Kevin P. O’Brien's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers). Kevin P. O’Brien is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Graphene research and applications (10 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (9 papers). Kevin P. O’Brien collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. Kevin P. O’Brien's co-authors include Xiang Zhang, Xiaobo Yin, Irfan Siddiqi, Yuan Wang, Ziliang Ye, Steven G. Louie, Hanyu Zhu, Ting Cao, Chris Macklin and William D. Oliver and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kevin P. O’Brien

44 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide

2014 810 citations Ziliang Ye, Ting Cao et al. Nature profile →
A near–quantum-limited Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifier

2015 450 citations Chris Macklin, Kevin P. O’Brien et al. profile →
Quantum Information Scrambling on a Superconducting Qutrit Processor

2021 182 citations Kevin P. O’Brien, John Mark Kreikebaum et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Modeling Flux Tunability in Josephson Traveling Wave Parameteric Amplifiers With an Open-Source Frequency-Domain Simulator 2025 ·IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), D. Massarotti, Domenico Montemurro, F. Tafuri, Giovanni Piero Pepe, Kevin P. O’Brien, Martina Esposito	0
2	Interferometric Purcell suppression of spontaneous emission in a superconducting qubit 2025 ·Physical Review Applied ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bethany M. Niedzielski, (unknown), Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kevin P. O’Brien	1
3	Near-ultrastrong nonlinear light-matter coupling in superconducting circuits 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bethany M. Niedzielski, (unknown), Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kevin P. O’Brien	2
4	Advanced EUV patterning of 2D TMDs for CMOS integration 2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Mark van de Kerkhof, (unknown), Henry Medina, P. Morin, Inge Asselberghs, (unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien, K. Maxey, Uygar E. Avci	0
5	Directional emission of a readout resonator for qubit measurement 2024 ·Physical Review Applied ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bethany M. Niedzielski, (unknown), Kyle Serniak, Mollie E. Schwartz, Kevin P. O’Brien	3
6	Ultrafast superconducting qubit readout with the quarton coupler 2024 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien	3
7	Broadband squeezed microwaves and amplification with a Josephson travelling-wave parametric amplifier 2023 ·Nature Physics ·(unknown), Arne L. Grimsmo, (unknown), Bharath Kannan, Benjamin Lienhard, Youngkyu Sung, Philip Krantz, Vladimir Bolkhovsky, Greg Calusine, David Kim, (unknown), Bethany M. Niedzielski, Jonilyn Yoder, Mollie E. Schwartz, Terry P. Orlando, Irfan Siddiqi, Simon Gustavsson, Kevin P. O’Brien, William D. Oliver	41
8	Are 2D transition metal dichalcogenides transistors the future silicon replacement or hype? 2023 ·Kevin P. O’Brien	3
9	Leveraging randomized compiling for the quantum imaginary-time-evolution algorithm 2022 ·Physical Review Research ·Jean-Loup Ville, Alexis Morvan, Akel Hashim, Ravi Naik, (unknown), Bradley Mitchell, (unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien, Joel J. Wallman, Ian Hincks, Joseph Emerson, Ethan Smith, (unknown), Costin Iancu, David Santiago, Irfan Siddiqi	7
10	Floquet-Mode Traveling-Wave Parametric Amplifiers 2022 ·PRX Quantum ·(unknown), Mahdi Naghiloo, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien	26
11	Advancing Monolayer 2-D nMOS and pMOS Transistor Integration From Growth to Van Der Waals Interface Engineering for Ultimate CMOS Scaling 2021 ·IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices ·(unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien, Carl H. Naylor, (unknown), Ashish Verma Penumatcha, (unknown), Tristan A. Tronic, (unknown), K. Maxey, Hong‐Hu Zhu, A. Oni, Urusa S. Alaan, Tanay A. Gosavi, Arnab Sen Gupta, Robert Bristol, Scott B. Clendenning, M. Metz, Uygar E. Avci	5
12	Engineering Purely Nonlinear Coupling between Superconducting Qubits Using a Quarton 2021 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Mahdi Naghiloo, (unknown), Kevin P. O’Brien	21
13	Randomized compiling for scalable quantum computing on a noisy superconducting quantum processor 2020 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Akel Hashim, Ravi Naik, Alexis Morvan, Jean-Loup Ville, Bradley Mitchell, John Mark Kreikebaum, Marc Davis, Ethan Smith, Costin Iancu, Kevin P. O’Brien, Ian Hincks, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson, Irfan Siddiqi	81
14	Improving wafer-scale Josephson junction resistance variation in superconducting quantum coherent circuits 2020 ·Superconductor Science and Technology ·John Mark Kreikebaum, Kevin P. O’Brien, Alexis Morvan, Irfan Siddiqi	78
15	Polarization-controlled coherent phonon generation in acoustoplasmonic metasurfaces 2018 ·Physical review. B. ·N. D. Lanzillotti‐Kimura, Kevin P. O’Brien, Junsuk Rho, Haim Suchowski, Xiaobo Yin, Xiang Zhang	26
16	Adiabatic elimination-based coupling control in densely packed subwavelength waveguides 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Michael Mrejen, Haim Suchowski, (unknown), Chihhui Wu, Liang Feng, Kevin P. O’Brien, Yuan Wang, Xiang Zhang	71
17	Edge Nonlinear Optics on a MoS2 Atomic Monolayer 2014 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Xiaobo Yin, Ziliang Ye, Daniel Chenet, Yu Ye, Kevin P. O’Brien, James Hone, Xiang Zhang	11
18	Resonant Phase Matching of Josephson Junction Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifiers 2014 ·Physical Review Letters ·Kevin P. O’Brien, Chris Macklin, Irfan Siddiqi, Xiang Zhang	98
19	Probing excitonic dark states in single-layer tungsten disulphide breakdown → 2014 ·Nature ·Ziliang Ye, Ting Cao, Kevin P. O’Brien, Hanyu Zhu, Xiaobo Yin, Yuan Wang, Steven G. Louie, Xiang Zhang	810
20	Flexible High‐Conductivity Carbon‐Nanotube Interconnects Made by Rolling and Printing 2009 ·Small ·Sameh Tawfick, Kevin P. O’Brien, A. John Hart	97

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