Leonid Levitov

23.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
216 papers, 17.0k citations indexed

About

Leonid Levitov is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Leonid Levitov has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 17.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 111 papers in Materials Chemistry and 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Leonid Levitov's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (124 papers), Graphene research and applications (89 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (42 papers). Leonid Levitov is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (124 papers), Graphene research and applications (89 papers) and Topological Materials and Phenomena (42 papers). Leonid Levitov collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and United Kingdom. Leonid Levitov's co-authors include Dmitry A. Abanin, Justin C. W. Song, Mark S. Rudner, A. V. Shytov, Rahul Nandkishore, Terry P. Orlando, Seth Lloyd, C. H. van der Wal, Lin Tian and J. E. Mooij and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Leonid Levitov

211 papers receiving 16.6k citations

Hit Papers

Josephson Persistent-Current Qubit 1997 2026 2006 2016 1999 2011 2014 1999 2012 250 500 750
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. Josephson Persistent-Current Qubit
    1999 949 citations Leonid Levitov et al. Science profile →
  2. Hot Carrier–Assisted Intrinsic Photoresponse in Graphene
    2011 800 citations Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi et al. Science profile →
  3. Detecting topological currents in graphene superlattices
    2014 526 citations Yang Cao, Leonid Levitov et al. Science profile →
  4. Superconducting persistent-current qubit
    1999 524 citations Leonid Levitov et al. profile →
  5. Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene
    2012 512 citations Leonid Levitov, Andrey V. Chubukov et al. profile →
  6. Photoexcitation cascade and multiple hot-carrier generation in graphene
    2013 457 citations Leonid Levitov et al. profile →
  7. Quasiparticle Lifetime in a Finite System: A Nonperturbative Approach
    1997 443 citations Leonid Levitov et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leonid Levitov United States 66 12.7k 8.2k 3.2k 2.6k 2.6k 216 17.0k
C. M. Marcus United States 74 18.3k 1.4× 6.4k 0.8× 6.6k 2.1× 5.1k 1.9× 3.8k 1.4× 208 22.3k
W. Wegscheider Germany 66 16.5k 1.3× 3.8k 0.5× 7.0k 2.2× 4.4k 1.7× 2.4k 0.9× 688 18.5k
Marco Polini Italy 60 10.2k 0.8× 9.0k 1.1× 5.2k 1.6× 1.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 210 18.1k
Joel E. Moore United States 63 15.5k 1.2× 8.1k 1.0× 1.6k 0.5× 6.5k 2.5× 925 0.4× 223 18.4k
Antti‐Pekka Jauho Denmark 54 8.8k 0.7× 4.4k 0.5× 5.3k 1.7× 1.2k 0.5× 802 0.3× 206 11.9k
K. Ensslin Switzerland 60 11.0k 0.9× 5.3k 0.7× 5.2k 1.6× 1.7k 0.6× 1.6k 0.6× 441 13.4k
Μ. Büttiker Switzerland 68 22.7k 1.8× 5.0k 0.6× 11.2k 3.5× 3.5k 1.3× 3.9k 1.5× 218 25.7k
Y. Imry Israel 58 12.2k 1.0× 5.3k 0.6× 5.4k 1.7× 7.3k 2.8× 904 0.3× 243 18.8k
A. Lemaı̂tre France 70 17.0k 1.3× 3.0k 0.4× 7.3k 2.3× 1.2k 0.5× 3.5k 1.4× 552 20.1k
K. W. West United States 91 28.2k 2.2× 6.3k 0.8× 10.1k 3.2× 12.2k 4.7× 1.6k 0.6× 772 31.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2025). Linear-in-temperature conductance in two-dimensional electron fluids. Physical review. B.. 111(8). 4 indexed citations
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Davydova, Margarita, et al.. (2024). Superscreening by a retroreflected hole backflow in tomographic electron fluids. Physical review. B.. 109(8). 1 indexed citations
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Cui, Zhiyuan, Yunbo Ou, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2024). Long-lived isospin excitations in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. Nature. 633(8028). 77–82. 2 indexed citations
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Roy, Indranil, Sameer Grover, Jiewen Xiao, et al.. (2024). De Haas–van Alphen spectroscopy and magnetic breakdown in moiré graphene. Science. 383(6678). 42–48. 6 indexed citations
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2024). Chiral Stoner magnetism in Dirac bands. Physical review. B.. 110(10). 1 indexed citations
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Gull, Munazza, Felix Fischer, Chuyao Tong, et al.. (2024). Spin-orbit proximity in MoS2/bilayer graphene heterostructures. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9251–9251. 11 indexed citations
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Seiler, Α., Martin Statz, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2024). Probing the tunable multi-cone band structure in Bernal bilayer graphene. Nature Communications. 15(1). 3133–3133. 16 indexed citations
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Seiler, Α., Martin Statz, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2024). Interaction-Driven Quasi-Insulating Ground States of Gapped Electron-Doped Bilayer Graphene. Physical Review Letters. 133(6). 66301–66301. 17 indexed citations
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2023). Collinear scattering and long-lived excitations in two-dimensional electron fluids. Physical review. B.. 107(20). 11 indexed citations
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2023). Two-dimensional electron gases as non-Newtonian fluids. Low Temperature Physics. 49(12). 1402–1412. 2 indexed citations
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2023). Collective Excitations in Chiral Stoner Magnets. Physical Review Letters. 130(20). 206701–206701. 9 indexed citations
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Chubukov, Andrey V., et al.. (2023). Transformer spin-triplet superconductivity at the onset of isospin order in bilayer graphene. Physical review. B.. 107(17). 36 indexed citations
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Lee, Patrick A., et al.. (2023). Signatures of Cooper pair dynamics and quantum-critical superconductivity in tunable carrier bands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(39). e2305943120–e2305943120. 11 indexed citations
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Levitov, Leonid, et al.. (2023). Superconductivity near spin and valley orders in graphene multilayers. Physical review. B.. 108(13). 19 indexed citations
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Roy, Indranil, Tobias Holder, Alexander Y. Meltzer, et al.. (2022). Direct observation of vortices in an electron fluid. Nature. 607(7917). 74–80. 2 indexed citations
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Ishizuka, Hiroaki & Leonid Levitov. (2022). Wide-range T 2 resistivity and umklapp scattering in moiré graphene. New Journal of Physics. 24(5). 52001–52001. 7 indexed citations
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Bandurin, D. A., Roshan Krishna Kumar, Yang Cao, et al.. (2018). Superballistic flow of viscous electron fluid through graphene constrictions. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 2018.
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Halbertal, Dorri, M. Ben Shalom, Aviram Uri, et al.. (2017). Imaging resonant dissipation from individual atomic defects in graphene. Science. 358(6368). 1303–1306. 62 indexed citations
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Ghahari, Fereshte, Daniel Walkup, Christopher Gutiérrez, et al.. (2017). An on/off Berry phase switch in circular graphene resonators. Science. 356(6340). 845–849. 100 indexed citations

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