Nan Zhao

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
65 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Nan Zhao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nan Zhao has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 22 papers in Materials Chemistry and 12 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Nan Zhao's work include Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (21 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (20 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers). Nan Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (21 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (20 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (15 papers). Nan Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and Germany. Nan Zhao's co-authors include Ren‐Bao Liu, Jörg Wrachtrup, Jiangfeng Du, Xing Rong, Fedor Jelezko, Ya Wang, Jiahui Yang, Helmut Fedder, Mohammad Jamali and Sang‐Yun Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nan Zhao

62 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Coherent control of single spins in silicon carbide at room temperature

2014 474 citations Matthias Widmann, Sang‐Yun Lee et al. Nature Materials profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nan Zhao China	23	1.8k	1.5k	706	494	376	65	2.8k
Georg Kucsko United States	9	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	436 0.6×	434 0.9×	425 1.1×	12	3.0k
Peter C. Maurer United States	14	1.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	610 0.9×	453 0.9×	527 1.4×	20	3.1k
Fazhan Shi China	30	2.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.2×	484 0.7×	660 1.3×	526 1.4×	106	3.1k
Sungkun Hong United States	10	2.2k 1.2×	2.2k 1.5×	706 1.0×	374 0.8×	691 1.8×	15	3.2k
F. Joseph Heremans United States	23	1.7k 0.9×	1.8k 1.2×	1.1k 1.5×	558 1.1×	265 0.7×	58	2.9k
Jean-François Roch France	28	2.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.4×	599 0.8×	341 0.7×	732 1.9×	60	3.1k
Patrick Maletinsky Switzerland	34	3.1k 1.7×	2.5k 1.6×	964 1.4×	481 1.0×	528 1.4×	81	4.4k
Jared H. Cole Australia	30	2.6k 1.4×	972 0.7×	821 1.2×	1.3k 2.5×	193 0.5×	115	3.5k
Helmut Fedder Germany	14	2.0k 1.1×	2.4k 1.6×	787 1.1×	499 1.0×	756 2.0×	24	3.3k
Florian Dolde Germany	17	2.2k 1.2×	2.7k 1.8×	643 0.9×	536 1.1×	984 2.6×	20	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Nan Zhao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nan Zhao

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nan Zhao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nan Zhao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nan Zhao 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 Nan Zhao. Nan Zhao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shao, Yunlin, et al.. (2025). Planar Coil Design for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope Using Genetic Algorithm. IEEE Sensors Journal. 25(5). 8196–8205.

Zhao, Nan, et al.. (2025). Magnetic-resonance linewidth of alkali-metal vapor in the unresolved Zeeman-resonance regime. Physical review. A. 111(1). 1 indexed citations

Zhao, Nan, et al.. (2025). Frequency shift caused by nonuniform field and boundary relaxation in magnetic resonance and comagnetometers. Communications Physics. 8(1). 1 indexed citations

Gao, G. H., et al.. (2024). Stability improvement of nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope with self-calibrating parametric magnetometer. Physical Review Applied. 21(1). 9 indexed citations

Zhao, Nan, et al.. (2024). The Response of Oil Shocks to Economic Policy Uncertainty: Evidence From a Cross-Quantilogram Approach. 6(4). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Lijuan, et al.. (2023). An Admission-Control-Based Dynamic Query Tree Protocol for Fast Moving RFID Tag Identification. Applied Sciences. 13(4). 2228–2228. 3 indexed citations

Zhao, Nan, et al.. (2023). Stable Atomic Magnetometer in Parity-Time Symmetry Broken Phase. Physical Review Letters. 130(2). 23201–23201. 22 indexed citations

Song, Bowen, et al.. (2021). Spin-polarization dependence of the Rb-Xe spin-exchange optical pumping process. Physical review. A. 104(2). 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Ke, et al.. (2020). Closed-Loop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyroscope Based on Rb-Xe. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 2258–2258. 31 indexed citations

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Yan, Dong, et al.. (2020). Analysis of Shockwave Front-Time Characteristics based On Pulse Discharge in Water. Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review. 13(4). 30–36. 1 indexed citations

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Xin, Hongbao, Nan Zhao, Xiaoting Zhao, et al.. (2020). Optically Controlled Living Micromotors for the Manipulation and Disruption of Biological Targets. Nano Letters. 20(10). 7177–7185. 76 indexed citations

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Yang, Hongying, et al.. (2019). High bandwidth three-axis magnetometer based on optically polarized ⁸⁵ Rb under unshielded environment. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 53(6). 65002–65002. 19 indexed citations

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Zhou, Lei‐Ming, et al.. (2018). Sensitivity of displacement detection for a particle levitated in the doughnut beam. Optics Letters. 43(19). 4582–4582. 6 indexed citations

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Widmann, Matthias, Sang‐Yun Lee, Torsten Rendler, et al.. (2014). Coherent control of single spins in silicon carbide at room temperature. Nature Materials. 14(2). 164–168. 474 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Gang‐Qin, Qianqing Jiang, Dongqi Liu, et al.. (2014). Protection of centre spin coherence by dynamic nuclear spin polarization in diamond. Nanoscale. 6(17). 10134–10139. 12 indexed citations

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Ma, Wen-Long, Gary Wolfowicz, Nan Zhao, et al.. (2014). Uncovering many-body correlations in nanoscale nuclear spin baths by central spin decoherence. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4822–4822. 31 indexed citations

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Zhao, Nan, Jörg Wrachtrup, & Ren‐Bao Liu. (2014). Dynamical decoupling design for identifying weakly coupled nuclear spins in a bath. Physical Review A. 90(3). 31 indexed citations

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Liu, Gang‐Qin, et al.. (2012). Controllable effects of quantum fluctuations on spin free-induction decay at room temperature. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 432–432. 22 indexed citations

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Huang, Pu, Xi Kong, Nan Zhao, et al.. (2011). Observation of an anomalous decoherence effect in a quantum bath at room temperature. Nature Communications. 2(1). 570–570. 70 indexed citations

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Zhao, Nan. (2009). A Hybrid Structure of Spatial Multilevel Index Based on Grids and R-Tree. Computer Technology and Development. 2 indexed citations

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