Nicholas Rivera

3.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Rivera is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Rivera has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 30 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 25 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Rivera's work include Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (22 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (21 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (17 papers). Nicholas Rivera is often cited by papers focused on Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (22 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (21 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (17 papers). Nicholas Rivera collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Singapore. Nicholas Rivera's co-authors include Ido Kaminer, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Prineha Narang, Johannes Flick, Alexey Gorlach, Thomas Christensen, Aviv Karnieli, Jamison Sloan and Bo Zhen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Rivera

77 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles 2020 2026 2022 2024 2020 2022 50 100 150 200
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. Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles
    2020 245 citations Nicholas Rivera, Ido Kaminer profile →
  2. A framework for scintillation in nanophotonics
    2022 147 citations Charles Roques‐Carmes, Nicholas Rivera et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Rivera United States 24 1.5k 883 554 426 425 83 2.3k
G. Biasiol Italy 29 3.2k 2.1× 948 1.1× 1.4k 2.6× 239 0.6× 617 1.5× 198 3.7k
K. Ilin Germany 32 1.5k 1.0× 472 0.5× 1.1k 2.0× 321 0.8× 532 1.3× 137 3.0k
Mark E. Siemens United States 22 1.4k 0.9× 420 0.5× 471 0.9× 150 0.4× 49 0.1× 88 1.7k
Stefano Bonetti Sweden 28 2.4k 1.6× 797 0.9× 1.4k 2.5× 830 1.9× 87 0.2× 77 3.1k
Dafei Jin United States 22 995 0.7× 301 0.3× 374 0.7× 393 0.9× 134 0.3× 59 1.5k
A. Semenov Germany 20 1.3k 0.8× 317 0.4× 1000 1.8× 90 0.2× 754 1.8× 51 2.3k
Michele Merano Italy 22 1.3k 0.8× 476 0.5× 505 0.9× 219 0.5× 176 0.4× 45 1.6k
Marco Battiato Singapore 24 2.6k 1.7× 193 0.2× 1.3k 2.4× 619 1.5× 62 0.1× 60 3.1k
V. I. Balykin Russia 26 2.4k 1.6× 812 0.9× 738 1.3× 351 0.8× 704 1.7× 179 3.0k
Stephan Winnerl Germany 33 2.3k 1.5× 979 1.1× 2.4k 4.3× 318 0.7× 76 0.2× 187 3.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Rivera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Rivera

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sloan, Jamison, et al.. (2025). Controlling X-ray emission with optical nanostructures. Optica. 12(12). 1975–1975.
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Moore, Samuel, Nicholas Rivera, Mark E. Ziffer, et al.. (2025). Van der Waals waveguide quantum electrodynamics probed by infrared nano-photoluminescence. Nature Photonics. 19(8). 833–839. 1 indexed citations
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Pajovic, Simo, et al.. (2025). End-to-end design of multicolor scintillators for enhanced energy resolution in X-ray imaging. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 158–158. 5 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, Charles Roques‐Carmes, Nicholas Rivera, & Shanhui Fan. (2024). Strong Coupling and Single-Photon Nonlinearity in Free-Electron Quantum Optics. ACS Photonics. 11(8). 3401–3411. 13 indexed citations
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Pajovic, Simo, Charles Roques‐Carmes, Yoichiro Tsurimaki, et al.. (2024). Nonreciprocal scintillation using one-dimensional magneto-optical photonic crystals. Physical Review Applied. 22(5).
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Rivera, Nicholas, Jamison Sloan, Ido Kaminer, & Marin Soljačić. (2023). Nonperturbative electromagnetic nonlinearities, n-photon reflectors, and Fock-state lasers based on deep-strong coupling of light and matter. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 1 indexed citations
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Dahan, Raphael, et al.. (2023). Creation of Optical Cat and GKP States Using Shaped Free Electrons. Physical Review X. 13(3). 29 indexed citations
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Pizzi, Andrea, Alexey Gorlach, Nicholas Rivera, Andreas Nunnenkamp, & Ido Kaminer. (2023). Light emission from strongly driven many-body systems. Nature Physics. 19(4). 551–561. 48 indexed citations
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Baranes, Gefen, et al.. (2022). Creation of Photonic Cat and GKP States Using Modulated Electrons. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTu5A.4–FTu5A.4. 2 indexed citations
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Karnieli, Aviv, Nicholas Rivera, Ady Arie, & Ido Kaminer. (2021). The coherence of light is fundamentally tied to the quantum coherence of the emitting particle. Science Advances. 7(18). 49 indexed citations
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Wong, Liang Jie, Nicholas Rivera, Thomas Christensen, et al.. (2021). Control of quantum electrodynamical processes by shaping electron wavepackets. Nature Communications. 12(1). 1700–1700. 38 indexed citations
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Gonçalves, P. A. D., Thomas Christensen, Nicholas Rivera, et al.. (2020). Plasmon–emitter interactions at the nanoscale. Nature Communications. 11(1). 366–366. 102 indexed citations
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Kurman, Yaniv, et al.. (2019). Imaging the collapse of electron wave-functions: the relation to plasmonic losses. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 5 indexed citations
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Rivera, Nicholas, Liang Jie Wong, Marin Soljačić, & Ido Kaminer. (2019). Ultrafast Multiharmonic Plasmon Generation by Optically Dressed Electrons. Physical Review Letters. 122(5). 53901–53901. 10 indexed citations
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Rivera, Nicholas, Johannes Flick, & Prineha Narang. (2019). Variational Theory of Nonrelativistic Quantum Electrodynamics. Physical Review Letters. 122(19). 193603–193603. 43 indexed citations
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Wong, Liang Jie, et al.. (2018). Metasurface-based multi-harmonic free-electron light source. Light Science & Applications. 7(1). 64–64. 45 indexed citations
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Roques‐Carmes, Charles, Nicholas Rivera, John D. Joannopoulos, Marin Soljačić, & Ido Kaminer. (2018). Nonperturbative Quantum Electrodynamics in the Cherenkov Effect. Physical Review Letters. 6 indexed citations
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Wong, Liang Jie, et al.. (2017). Efficient hard X-ray source enabled by metallic nano-gratings. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 10. FM3H.3–FM3H.3. 1 indexed citations
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Hsu, Chia Wei, Hrvoje Buljan, Nicholas Rivera, et al.. (2016). Controlling Directionality and Dimensionality of Radiation by Perturbing Separable Bound States in the Continuum. Nature. 2 indexed citations
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Rivera, Nicholas, Chia Wei Hsu, Bo Zhen, et al.. (2016). Controlling Directionality and Dimensionality of Radiation by Perturbing Separable Bound States in the Continuum. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 33394–33394. 31 indexed citations

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