Lorenzo Marrucci

16.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
195 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Marrucci is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Marrucci has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 57 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 53 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Marrucci's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (97 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (51 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers). Lorenzo Marrucci is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (97 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (51 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers). Lorenzo Marrucci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Lorenzo Marrucci's co-authors include Domenico Paparo, Enrico Santamato, Carlo Manzo, Bruno Piccirillo, Ebrahim Karimi, Fabio Sciarrino, Sergei Slussarenko, Filippo Cardano, Andrea Rubano and Vincenzo D’Ambrosio and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Marrucci

192 papers receiving 10.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Optical Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion in Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Media

2006 1.6k citations Lorenzo Marrucci, Domenico Paparo et al. profile →
Controlled generation of higher-order Poincaré sphere beams from a laser

2016 520 citations Filippus S. Roux, Angela Dudley et al. profile →
4 × 20 Gbit/s mode division multiplexing over free space using vector modes and a q-plate mode (de)multiplexer

2015 345 citations Ebrahim Karimi, Lorenzo Marrucci et al. profile →
Observation of optical polarization Möbius strips

2015 334 citations Ebrahim Karimi, Andrea Rubano et al. profile →
Free-Space Quantum Key Distribution by Rotation-Invariant Twisted Photons

2014 320 citations Sergei Slussarenko, Lorenzo Marrucci et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lorenzo Marrucci Italy	52	9.3k	3.7k	3.2k	2.3k	2.2k	195	11.1k
Andrew Forbes South Africa	58	10.3k 1.1×	4.4k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	3.6k 1.7×	422	12.5k
Cyriaque Genet France	55	8.7k 0.9×	7.0k 1.9×	3.1k 1.0×	949 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	150	12.2k
Ortwin Hess United Kingdom	45	5.2k 0.6×	4.3k 1.2×	3.4k 1.1×	639 0.3×	3.4k 1.6×	261	9.1k
J. P. Woerdman Netherlands	49	15.5k 1.7×	6.2k 1.7×	2.7k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	5.1k 2.4×	281	17.6k
Gerd Leuchs Germany	67	14.3k 1.5×	3.9k 1.1×	1.3k 0.4×	6.9k 3.1×	4.4k 2.0×	480	16.6k
T. H. Taminiau Netherlands	30	4.9k 0.5×	2.9k 0.8×	1.9k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	55	7.9k
Hailu Luo China	44	6.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	185	7.7k
Konstantin Y. Bliokh Japan	50	11.1k 1.2×	4.5k 1.2×	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	2.2k 1.0×	126	12.5k
Enrico Santamato Italy	37	4.8k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.7k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	934 0.4×	169	5.9k
Ad Lagendijk Netherlands	53	8.3k 0.9×	3.8k 1.0×	952 0.3×	1.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.6×	197	13.4k

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Barboza, Raouf, Marcella Salvatore, Stefano Luigi Oscurato, et al.. (2025). Electrically tunable liquid-crystal metasurfaces with patterned birefringence and dichroism. APL Photonics. 10(5).

Marrucci, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Large-scale free-space photonic circuits in two dimensions. Advanced Photonics. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

Carvacho, Gonzalo, et al.. (2023). Generation of high-dimensional qudit quantum states via two-dimensional quantum walks. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 4 indexed citations

Cardano, Filippo, et al.. (2023). Spatial mode analysis of optical beams carrying monstar disclinations. Journal of Optics. 25(4). 44001–44001. 1 indexed citations

Carvacho, Gonzalo, Raouf Barboza, Filippo Cardano, et al.. (2022). Quantum walks of two correlated photons in a 2D synthetic lattice. npj Quantum Information. 8(1). 24 indexed citations

Babazadeh, Amin, et al.. (2022). Ultra-long quantum walks via spin–orbit photonics. Optica. 10(3). 324–324. 22 indexed citations

D’Errico, Alessio, Raouf Barboza, Alexandre Dauphin, et al.. (2020). Bulk detection of time-dependent topological transitions in quenched chiral models. Physical Review Research. 2(2). 19 indexed citations

Sephton, Bereneice, Angela Dudley, Gianluca Ruffato, et al.. (2019). A versatile quantum walk resonator with bright classical light. PLoS ONE. 14(4). e0214891–e0214891. 24 indexed citations

Rubano, Andrea, Sen Mou, Lorenzo Marrucci, & Domenico Paparo. (2019). Terahertz Hyper-Raman Time-Domain Spectroscopy. ACS Photonics. 6(6). 1515–1523. 15 indexed citations

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D’Errico, Alessio, Filippo Cardano, Maria Maffei, et al.. (2019). Two-dimensional topological quantum walks in the momentum space of structured light. Optica. 7(2). 108–108. 52 indexed citations

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Cuevas, Álvaro, Juan Camilo López Carreño, Milena De Giorgi, et al.. (2018). First observation of the quantized exciton-polariton field and effect of interactions on a single polariton. Science Advances. 4(4). eaao6814–eaao6814. 51 indexed citations

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Nivas, Jijil JJ, Elaheh Allahyari, Filippo Cardano, et al.. (2018). Surface structures with unconventional patterns and shapes generated by femtosecond structured light fields. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 13613–13613. 33 indexed citations

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Allahyari, Elaheh, Jijil JJ Nivas, Filippo Cardano, et al.. (2018). Simple method for the characterization of intense Laguerre-Gauss vector vortex beams. Applied Physics Letters. 112(21). 18 indexed citations

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Cardano, Filippo, Alessio D’Errico, Alexandre Dauphin, et al.. (2017). Detection of Zak phases and topological invariants in a chiral quantum walk of twisted photons. Nature Communications. 8(1). 15516–15516. 228 indexed citations

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Cardano, Filippo, Maria Maffei, Francesco Massa, et al.. (2016). Statistical moments of quantum-walk dynamics reveal topological quantum transitions. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11439–11439. 111 indexed citations

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Cardano, Filippo, Francesco Massa, Hammam Qassim, et al.. (2014). Quantum walks and quantum simulation of wavepacket dynamics with twisted photons. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Dominici, Lorenzo, Dario Ballarini, Milena De Giorgi, et al.. (2014). Vortex and half-vortex stability in coherently driven spinor polariton fluid. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Piccirillo, Bruno, Sergei Slussarenko, Lorenzo Marrucci, & Enrico Santamato. (2013). The orbital angular momentum of light: Genesis and evolution of the concept and of the associated photonic technology. Griffith Research Online (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia). 21 indexed citations

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Cardano, Filippo, Ebrahim Karimi, Sergei Slussarenko, et al.. (2012). Polarization pattern of vector vortex beams generated by q-plates with different topological charges. Applied Optics. 51(10). C1–C1. 311 indexed citations

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Nagali, Eleonora, Fabio Sciarrino, F. De Martini, et al.. (2008). Quantum interference by coherence transfer from spin to orbital angular momentum of photons. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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