Michael R. Vanner

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
38 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Michael R. Vanner is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael R. Vanner has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 21 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Michael R. Vanner's work include Mechanical and Optical Resonators (30 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Michael R. Vanner is often cited by papers focused on Mechanical and Optical Resonators (30 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (17 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Michael R. Vanner collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Austria and Australia. Michael R. Vanner's co-authors include Markus Aspelmeyer, Simon Gröblacher, Klemens Hammerer, M. S. Kim, Igor Pikovski, Garrett D. Cole, Časlav Brukner, Jared Hertzberg, Sylvain Gigan and Keith Schwab and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Vanner

35 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field

2009 764 citations Simon Gröblacher, Klemens Hammerer et al. Nature profile →
Probing Planck-scale physics with quantum optics

2012 381 citations Igor Pikovski, Michael R. Vanner et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael R. Vanner United Kingdom	19	2.3k	1.3k	838	417	147	38	2.5k
Giovanni Di Giuseppe Italy	26	2.0k 0.9×	950 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	262 0.6×	60 0.4×	83	2.3k
Ariel Guerreiro Portugal	19	1.5k 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	595 0.7×	155 0.4×	55 0.4×	105	2.0k
Oriol Romero‐Isart Austria	27	2.5k 1.1×	682 0.5×	922 1.1×	334 0.8×	35 0.2×	72	2.8k
Nikolai Kiesel Germany	27	3.1k 1.3×	781 0.6×	2.0k 2.4×	426 1.0×	27 0.2×	54	3.4k
S. Deléglise France	16	3.7k 1.6×	1.9k 1.4×	1.7k 2.1×	236 0.6×	22 0.1×	30	3.8k
Eyal Buks Israel	27	2.7k 1.2×	1.3k 1.0×	550 0.7×	402 1.0×	28 0.2×	91	3.0k
M. Hofheinz France	21	4.1k 1.8×	1.2k 0.9×	2.8k 3.3×	274 0.7×	35 0.2×	37	4.5k
Maxim Goryachev Australia	21	1.3k 0.5×	480 0.4×	246 0.3×	115 0.3×	534 3.6×	90	1.7k
M. Pinard France	29	3.4k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	226 0.5×	17 0.1×	110	3.5k
M. Lenander United States	12	2.5k 1.1×	850 0.6×	1.4k 1.7×	152 0.4×	15 0.1×	14	2.6k

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Major, Kyle D., Magdalena Szczykulska, Arjun K. Gupta, et al.. (2025). Enhanced Laser Cooling of a Mechanical Resonator via Zero-Photon Detection. Physical Review Letters. 134(7). 73601–73601. 1 indexed citations

Gupta, Arjun K., Kyle D. Major, Magdalena Szczykulska, et al.. (2025). Theoretical framework for enhancing or enabling cooling of a mechanical resonator via the anti-Stokes or Stokes interaction and zero-photon detection. Physical review. A. 111(2). 1 indexed citations

Tan, A., et al.. (2025). Brillouin–Mandelstam scattering in telecommunications optical fiber at millikelvin temperatures. APL Photonics. 10(1).

Neveu, Pascal, et al.. (2023). Cavity Quantum Optomechanical Nonlinearities and Position Measurement beyond the Breakdown of the Linearized Approximation. Physical Review Letters. 131(5). 53601–53601. 6 indexed citations

Major, Kyle D., et al.. (2023). Second-order coherence across the Brillouin lasing threshold. Optica. 10(11). 1432–1432. 9 indexed citations

Vanner, Michael R., et al.. (2022). Two-mode Schrödinger-cat states with nonlinear optomechanics: generation and verification of non-Gaussian mechanical entanglement. Quantum Science and Technology. 7(3). 35012–35012. 13 indexed citations

Nunn, Joshua, et al.. (2021). Single-Phonon Addition and Subtraction to a Mechanical Thermal State. Physical Review Letters. 126(3). 33601–33601. 28 indexed citations

Brawley, George A., et al.. (2020). Mechanical Squeezing via Fast Continuous Measurement. Physical Review Letters. 125(4). 43604–43604. 32 indexed citations

Weinhold, Till J., et al.. (2019). Quantum Hypercube States. Physical Review Letters. 123(2). 20402–20402. 17 indexed citations

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Vanner, Michael R., et al.. (2018). Growing macroscopic superposition states via cavity quantum optomechanics. Quantum Science and Technology. 4(1). 14003–14003. 23 indexed citations

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Brawley, George A., Michael R. Vanner, Peter E. Larsen, et al.. (2016). Nonlinear optomechanical measurement of mechanical motion. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10988–10988. 99 indexed citations

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Xia, Keyu, Michael R. Vanner, & Jason Twamley. (2014). An opto-magneto-mechanical quantum interface between distant superconducting qubits. Scientific Reports. 4(1). 5571–5571. 15 indexed citations

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Vanner, Michael R., Igor Pikovski, & M. S. Kim. (2014). Towards optomechanical quantum state reconstruction of mechanical motion. Annalen der Physik. 527(1-2). 15–26. 45 indexed citations

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Vanner, Michael R., Markus Aspelmeyer, & M. S. Kim. (2013). Quantum State Orthogonalization and a Toolset for Quantum Optomechanical Phonon Control. Physical Review Letters. 110(1). 10504–10504. 59 indexed citations

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Vanner, Michael R., Johannes Hofer, Garrett D. Cole, & Markus Aspelmeyer. (2013). Cooling-by-measurement and mechanical state tomography via pulsed optomechanics. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2295–2295. 112 indexed citations

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Khosla, Kiran E., Michael R. Vanner, Warwick P. Bowen, & G. J. Milburn. (2013). Quantum state preparation of a mechanical resonator using an optomechanical geometric phase. New Journal of Physics. 15(4). 43025–43025. 22 indexed citations

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Gröblacher, Simon, Klemens Hammerer, Michael R. Vanner, & Markus Aspelmeyer. (2009). Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field. Nature. 460(7256). 724–727. 764 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hübel, Hannes, B. Blauensteiner, Michael Hentschel, et al.. (2007). Robustness of polarization entanglement for long distance QKD. 1–1.

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Zhou, Guangyong, Michael James Ventura, Michael R. Vanner, & Min Gu. (2004). Use of ultrafast-laser-driven microexplosion for fabricating three-dimensional void-based diamond-lattice photonic crystals in a solid polymer material. Optics Letters. 29(19). 2240–2240. 27 indexed citations

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Zhou, Guangyong, Michael James Ventura, Michael R. Vanner, & Miṅ Gu. (2004). Fabrication and characterization of face-centered-cubic void dots photonic crystals in a solid polymer material. Applied Physics Letters. 86(1). 15 indexed citations

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