Lene Vestergaard Hau

8.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
36 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Lene Vestergaard Hau is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lene Vestergaard Hau has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 6 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Lene Vestergaard Hau's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (21 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (14 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (9 papers). Lene Vestergaard Hau is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (21 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (14 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (9 papers). Lene Vestergaard Hau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Puerto Rico. Lene Vestergaard Hau's co-authors include Zachary Dutton, S. E. Harris, Chien Liu, Stephen Harris, Christopher Slowe, Michael Budde, Naomi S. Ginsberg, J. A. Golovchenko, Michael M. Burns and Joachim Brand and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Lene Vestergaard Hau

34 papers receiving 6.2k citations

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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.

Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas

1999 2.9k citations Lene Vestergaard Hau, S. E. Harris et al. Nature profile →
Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses

2001 1.7k citations Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton et al. Nature profile →
Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels

1999 755 citations Stephen Harris, Lene Vestergaard Hau Physical Review Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Protein Motion and Configurations in a Form-Fitting Nanopore: Avidin in ClyA 2018 ·Biophysical Journal ·Bo Lu, Chris R. Stokes, Monifa A. Fahie, Min Chen, J. A. Golovchenko, Lene Vestergaard Hau	16
2	Field Ionization of Cold Atoms near the Wall of a Single Carbon Nanotube 2010 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), J. A. Golovchenko, Lene Vestergaard Hau	20
3	Creation of Long-Term Coherent Optical Memory via Controlled Nonlinear Interactions in Bose-Einstein Condensates 2009 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Lene Vestergaard Hau	83
4	Electro-Optical Nanotraps for Neutral Atoms 2009 ·Physical Review Letters ·Brian M. Murphy, Lene Vestergaard Hau	0
5	Coherent control of optical information with matter wave dynamics 2007 ·Nature ·Naomi S. Ginsberg, (unknown), Lene Vestergaard Hau	85
6	Enhancement of microcavity lifetimes using highly dispersive materials 2005 ·Physical Review E ·Marin Soljačić, Elefterios Lidorikis, Lene Vestergaard Hau, John D. Joannopoulos	34
7	Detection and Quantized Conductance of Neutral Atoms Near a Charged Carbon Nanotube 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), J. A. Golovchenko, Lene Vestergaard Hau	11
8	High flux source of cold rubidium atoms 2005 ·Review of Scientific Instruments ·Christopher Slowe, L. Vernac, Lene Vestergaard Hau	27
9	Observation of Hybrid Soliton Vortex-Ring Structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·Naomi S. Ginsberg, Joachim Brand, Lene Vestergaard Hau	102
10	Microcavities with highly dispersive materials 2004 ·Marin Soljačić, Elefterios Lidorikis, Lene Vestergaard Hau, John D. Joannopoulos	0
11	Electromagnetically induced transparency in microcavities 2004 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Marin Soljačić, Elefterios Lidorikis, John D. Joannopoulos, Lene Vestergaard Hau	2
12	Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses breakdown → 2001 ·Nature ·Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, (unknown), Lene Vestergaard Hau	1699
13	Frozen Light 2001 ·Scientific American ·Lene Vestergaard Hau	6
14	Observation of Quantum Shock Waves Created with Ultra- Compressed Slow Light Pulses in a Bose-Einstein Condensate 2001 ·Science ·Zachary Dutton, Michael Budde, Christopher Slowe, Lene Vestergaard Hau	410
15	Observation of interaction dynamics in finite-temperature Bose condensed atom clouds 2000 ·Europhysics Letters (EPL) ·(unknown), Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, (unknown), Lene Vestergaard Hau	8
16	Nonlinear Optics at Low Light Levels breakdown → 1999 ·Physical Review Letters ·Stephen Harris, Lene Vestergaard Hau	755
17	Light speed reduction to 17 metres per second in an ultracold atomic gas breakdown → 1999 ·Nature ·Lene Vestergaard Hau, S. E. Harris, Zachary Dutton, (unknown)	2920
18	Single-Quantum Annihilation and Two-Quantum Annihilation-in-Flight Measurements of Electron Distributions Using Channeled Positrons 1997 ·Materials science forum ·R. Haakenaasen, A. Hunt, (unknown), R. H. Howell, F. A. Selim, Kelvin G. Lynn, T. E. Cowan, Lene Vestergaard Hau	1
19	Supersymmetry and the Binding of a Magnetic Atom to a Filamentary Current 1995 ·Physical Review Letters ·Lene Vestergaard Hau, J. A. Golovchenko, Michael M. Burns	15
20	Thermal vibrations in Si studied by channeling-radiation spectroscopy 1990 ·Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·Lene Vestergaard Hau, Erik Lægsgaard, J. U. Andersen	15

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