Mikhail D. Lukin

95.0k total citations · 57 hit papers
452 papers, 65.9k citations indexed

About

Mikhail D. Lukin is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mikhail D. Lukin has authored 452 papers receiving a total of 65.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 384 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 179 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 116 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mikhail D. Lukin's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (165 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (141 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (128 papers). Mikhail D. Lukin is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (165 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (141 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (128 papers). Mikhail D. Lukin collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Austria. Mikhail D. Lukin's co-authors include Eugene Demler, Michael Fleischhauer, Anders S. Sørensen, P. Zoller, A. S. Zibrov, Jacob M. Taylor, J. I. Cirac, Ronald L. Walsworth, Vladan Vuletić and Hongkun Park and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mikhail D. Lukin

441 papers receiving 63.8k citations

Hit Papers

Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2001 2001 2017 2013 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Long-distance quantum communication with atomic ensembles and linear optics
    2001 2.4k citations Mikhail D. Lukin, P. Zoller et al. Nature profile →
  2. Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor
    2001 1.5k citations Ronald L. Walsworth, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator
    2017 1.5k citations Alexander Keesling, Harry Levine et al. Nature profile →
  4. Nanometre-scale thermometry in a living cell
    2013 1.4k citations Hongkun Park, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  5. Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond
    2008 1.4k citations Amir Yacoby, Ronald L. Walsworth et al. Nature profile →
  6. High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution
    2008 1.3k citations Amir Yacoby, Ronald L. Walsworth et al. Nature Physics profile →
  7. Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
    2000 1.2k citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  8. Dipole Blockade and Quantum Information Processing in Mesoscopic Atomic Ensembles
    2001 1.2k citations Mikhail D. Lukin, P. Zoller et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots
    2007 1.1k citations Hongkun Park, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  10. Fast Quantum Gates for Neutral Atoms
    2000 1.1k citations P. Zoller, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  11. Robust optical delay lines with topological protection
    2011 1.1k citations Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature Physics profile →
  12. Ultraslow Group Velocity and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects in a Coherently Driven Hot Atomic Gas
    1999 999 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons
    2007 954 citations Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature Physics profile →
  14. Coherent Dynamics of Coupled Electron and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond
    2006 931 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Science profile →
  15. Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond
    2007 929 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Science profile →
  16. Colloquium: Trapping and manipulating photon states in atomic ensembles
    2003 836 citations Mikhail D. Lukin profile →
  17. Quantum convolutional neural networks
    2019 810 citations Iris Cong, Soonwon Choi et al. Nature Physics profile →
  18. Strain-Induced Pseudo-Magnetic Fields Greater Than 300 Tesla in Graphene Nanobubbles
    2010 782 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. profile →
  19. Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system
    2017 634 citations Soonwon Choi, Hengyun Zhou et al. Nature profile →
  20. Room-Temperature Quantum Bit Memory Exceeding One Second
    2012 618 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Science profile →
  21. Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms
    2012 604 citations Mikhail D. Lukin, Vladan Vuletić et al. Nature profile →
  22. Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency
    2001 602 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  23. Quantum Optics with Surface Plasmons
    2006 598 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  24. Quantum memory for photons: Dark-state polaritons
    2002 573 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. profile →
  25. An integrated diamond nanophotonics platform for quantum-optical networks
    2016 573 citations Denis D. Sukachev, Michael J. Burek et al. Science profile →
  26. Electromagnetically induced transparency with tunable single-photon pulses
    2005 560 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  27. Atom-by-atom assembly of defect-free one-dimensional cold atom arrays
    2016 559 citations Alexander Keesling, Harry Levine et al. Science profile →
  28. Majorana Fermions in Equilibrium and in Driven Cold-Atom Quantum Wires
    2011 556 citations Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  29. Quantum nonlinear optics — photon by photon
    2014 527 citations Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. profile →
  30. Nonlinear Optics and Quantum Entanglement of Ultraslow Single Photons
    2000 509 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  31. Time-Resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
    2007 493 citations Eugene Demler, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Science profile →
  32. Optical magnetic imaging of living cells
    2013 492 citations David R. Glenn, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  33. Probing topological spin liquids on a programmable quantum simulator
    2021 474 citations Giulia Semeghini, Harry Levine et al. Science profile →
  34. Stationary pulses of light in an atomic medium
    2003 471 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  35. Visible-frequency hyperbolic metasurface
    2015 440 citations Alexander A. High, Dominik S. Wild et al. Nature profile →
  36. A quantum network of clocks
    2014 438 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature Physics profile →
  37. Experimental Demonstration of Laser Oscillation without Population Inversion via Quantum Interference in Rb
    1995 436 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  38. Optical magnetic detection of single-neuron action potentials using quantum defects in diamond
    2016 424 citations John F. Barry, Matthew Turner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  39. Generation and manipulation of Schrödinger cat states in Rydberg atom arrays
    2019 412 citations Ahmed Omran, Harry Levine et al. Science profile →
  40. Parallel Implementation of High-Fidelity Multiqubit Gates with Neutral Atoms
    2019 386 citations Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  41. Nanophotonic quantum phase switch with a single atom
    2014 385 citations Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  42. Nuclear magnetic resonance detection and spectroscopy of single proteins using quantum logic
    2016 382 citations Alexander O. Sushkov, Soonwon Choi et al. Science profile →
  43. Optomechanical Quantum Information Processing with Photons and Phonons
    2012 363 citations Mikhail D. Lukin, P. Zoller et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  44. Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber
    2009 363 citations Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  45. Coupling a Single Trapped Atom to a Nanoscale Optical Cavity
    2013 342 citations Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Science profile →
  46. Quantum Kibble–Zurek mechanism and critical dynamics on a programmable Rydberg simulator
    2019 337 citations Alexander Keesling, Ahmed Omran et al. Nature profile →
  47. High-Fidelity Control and Entanglement of Rydberg-Atom Qubits
    2018 300 citations Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  48. Optimal architectures for long distance quantum communication
    2016 288 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. profile →
  49. High-resolution magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a solid-state spin sensor
    2018 274 citations David R. Glenn, Mikhail D. Lukin et al. Nature profile →
  50. High-fidelity parallel entangling gates on a neutral-atom quantum computer
    2023 262 citations Simon J. Evered, Dolev Bluvstein et al. Nature profile →
  51. Quantum sensors for biomedical applications
    2023 247 citations Nabeel Aslam, Hengyun Zhou et al. profile →
  52. Periodic Orbits, Entanglement, and Quantum Many-Body Scars in Constrained Models: Matrix Product State Approach
    2019 227 citations Wen Wei Ho, Soonwon Choi et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  53. Emergent SU(2) Dynamics and Perfect Quantum Many-Body Scars
    2019 219 citations Soonwon Choi, Hannes Pichler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  54. Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network
    2024 127 citations Can M. Knaut, Aziza Suleymanzade et al. Nature profile →
  55. Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals
    2023 104 citations Mikhail D. Lukin et al. profile →
  56. Constant-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computation with reconfigurable atom arrays
    2024 76 citations Dolev Bluvstein, Jonathan Wurtz et al. Nature Physics profile →
  57. Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable simulator
    2025 20 citations Tom Manovitz, Sophie H. Li et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Mikhail D. Lukin
Comparison fields: 5 of 159
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 54.4k
  • Artificial Intelligence 23.5k
  • Materials Chemistry 15.0k
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering 10.9k
  • Biomedical Engineering 5.7k
Replace Franco Nori with:
Franco Nori United States
Heng Fan China
Fedor Jelezko Germany
D. D. Awschalom United States
S. Das Sarma United States
A. C. Gossard United States
Liang Jiang United States
Guang‐Can Guo China
Jörg Wrachtrup Germany
Marlan O. Scully United States
Franco Nori United States View profile →
Citations per field, relative to Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin · 1×
Citations per year, relative to Mikhail D. Lukin
Mikhail D. Lukin · 1×

Countries citing papers authored by Mikhail D. Lukin

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Mikhail D. Lukin's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Mikhail D. Lukin with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Mikhail D. Lukin more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Mikhail D. Lukin

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Mikhail D. Lukin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Mikhail D. Lukin. The network helps show where Mikhail D. Lukin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mikhail D. Lukin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mikhail D. Lukin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mikhail D. Lukin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mikhail D. Lukin. Mikhail D. Lukin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Quantum coarsening and collective dynamics on a programmable simulator breakdown →
2025 ·Nature ·Tom Manovitz, Sophie H. Li, Sepehr Ebadi, Rhine Samajdar, Alexandra A. Geim, Simon J. Evered, Dolev Bluvstein, Hengyun Zhou, (unknown), Johannes Feldmeier, Pavel E. Dolgirev, Nishad Maskara, M. W. Kalinowski, Subir Sachdev, David A. Huse, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin
20
2
Probing Topological Entanglement on Large Scales
2025 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Torsten V. Zache, Nishad Maskara, Mikhail D. Lukin, P. Zoller, Hannes Pichler
1
3
Probing Dynamics of a Two-Dimensional Dipolar Spin Ensemble Using Single Qubit Sensor
2025 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Soonwon Choi, Mikhail D. Lukin, Alexander O. Sushkov
0
4
Error-detected quantum operations with neutral atoms mediated by an optical cavity
2025 ·Science ·Brandon Grinkemeyer, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Johannes Borregaard, Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin
13
5
Entanglement of nanophotonic quantum memory nodes in a telecom network breakdown →
2024 ·Nature ·Can M. Knaut, Aziza Suleymanzade, Yan-Cheng Wei, Daniel Assumpção, Pieter-Jan Stas, Yan Qi Huan, Bartholomeus Machielse, Erik Knall, Madison Sutula, Gefen Baranes, Neil Sinclair, Chawina De-Eknamkul, David Levonian, Mihir K. Bhaskar, Hongkun Park, Marko Lončar, Mikhail D. Lukin
127
6
Toward Programmable Quantum Processors Based on Spin Qubits with Mechanically Mediated Interactions and Transport
2024 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Emma Rosenfeld, (unknown), (unknown), Jan Gieseler, Tony Zhou, (unknown), Nabeel Aslam, Amir Yacoby, Mikhail D. Lukin
4
7
Controlled interlayer exciton ionization in an electrostatic trap in atomically thin heterostructures
2024 ·Nature Communications ·Andrew Y. Joe, Andrés M. Mier Valdivia, Luis A. Jauregui, Kateryna Pistunova, (unknown), You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Kristiaan De Greve, (unknown), Bumho Kim, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, James Hone, Mikhail D. Lukin, Hongkun Park, Philip Kim
5
8
Enhancing detection of topological order by local error correction
2024 ·Nature Communications ·Iris Cong, Nishad Maskara, Minh C. Tran, Hannes Pichler, Giulia Semeghini, Susanne F. Yelin, Soonwon Choi, Mikhail D. Lukin
18
9
Quantum Optimization with Arbitrary Connectivity Using Rydberg Atom Arrays
2023 ·PRX Quantum ·(unknown), Jin-Guo Liu, Jonathan Wurtz, Mikhail D. Lukin, Sheng-Tao Wang, Hannes Pichler
64
10
Cryogenic packaging of nanophotonic devices with a low coupling loss <1 dB
2023 ·Applied Physics Letters ·(unknown), Chawina De-Eknamkul, Daniel Assumpção, Dylan Renaud, Zhuoxian Wang, Daniel Riedel, (unknown), Carsten Robens, David Levonian, Mikhail D. Lukin, Ralf Riedinger, Mihir K. Bhaskar, Denis D. Sukachev, Marko Lončar, (unknown)
19
11
Probing topological spin liquids on a programmable quantum simulator breakdown →
2021 ·Science ·Giulia Semeghini, Harry Levine, Alexander Keesling, Sepehr Ebadi, Tout T. Wang, Dolev Bluvstein, Ruben Verresen, Hannes Pichler, M. W. Kalinowski, Rhine Samajdar, Ahmed Omran, Subir Sachdev, Ashvin Vishwanath, Markus Greiner, Vladan Vuletić, Mikhail D. Lukin
474
12
Controlling Excitons in an Atomically Thin Membrane with a Mirror
2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Jiho Sung, Ryan J. Gelly, Dominik S. Wild, Kristiaan De Greve, Andrew Y. Joe, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Philip Kim, Mikhail D. Lukin, Hongkun Park
52
13
Broken mirror symmetry in excitonic response of reconstructed domains in twisted MoSe2/MoSe2 bilayers
2020 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Jiho Sung, You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Viktor Zólyomi, Trond I. Andersen, Hyobin Yoo, Dominik S. Wild, Andrew Y. Joe, Ryan J. Gelly, Hoseok Heo, S. J. Magorrian, Damien Bérubé, Andrés M. Mier Valdivia, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mikhail D. Lukin, Philip Kim, Vladimir I. Fal’ko, Hongkun Park
136
14
Quantum many-body scars from virtual entangled pairs
2020 ·Physical review. B. ·(unknown), Hannes Pichler, Mikhail D. Lukin, Wen Wei Ho
66
15
Electron-phonon instability in graphene revealed by global and local noise probes
2019 ·Science ·Trond I. Andersen, (unknown), Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Joaquin F. Rodriguez-Nieva, Kartiek Agarwal, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Eugene Demler, Philip Kim, Hongkun Park, Mikhail D. Lukin
53
16
Quantum convolutional neural networks breakdown →
2019 ·Nature Physics ·Iris Cong, Soonwon Choi, Mikhail D. Lukin
810
17
An integrated nanophotonic quantum register based on silicon-vacancy spins in diamond
2019 ·Physical review. B. ·C. T. Nguyen, Denis D. Sukachev, Mihir K. Bhaskar, Bartholomeus Machielse, David Levonian, Erik Knall, P. Stroganov, Cleaven Chia, Michael J. Burek, Ralf Riedinger, Hongkun Park, Marko Lončar, Mikhail D. Lukin
125
18
Electrical control of charged carriers and excitons in atomically thin materials
2018 ·Nature Nanotechnology ·Ke Wang, Kristiaan De Greve, Luis A. Jauregui, (unknown), Alexander A. High, You Zhou, Giovanni Scuri, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Mikhail D. Lukin, Hongkun Park, Philip Kim
137
19
Optical magnetic detection of single-neuron action potentials using quantum defects in diamond breakdown →
2016 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John F. Barry, Matthew Turner, Jennifer M. Schloss, David R. Glenn, Yuyu Song, Mikhail D. Lukin, Hongkun Park, Ronald L. Walsworth
424
20
Quantum coherence and interference in optics and laser spectroscopy
1998 ·PhDT ·Mikhail D. Lukin
1

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Franco Nori Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Heng Fan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Fedor Jelezko Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by D. D. Awschalom Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by S. Das Sarma Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by A. C. Gossard Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Liang Jiang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Guang‐Can Guo Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jörg Wrachtrup Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Marlan O. Scully
Rankless by CCL
2026