Nitzan Akerman

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 952 citations indexed

About

Nitzan Akerman is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nitzan Akerman has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 952 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 24 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nitzan Akerman's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (24 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (13 papers). Nitzan Akerman is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (24 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (13 papers). Nitzan Akerman collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and France. Nitzan Akerman's co-authors include Roee Ozeri, Shlomi Kotler, Yinnon Glickman, Yotam Shapira, Tom Manovitz, Tomáš Šikorský, Ravid Shaniv, Ziv Meir, Anna Keselman and Nir Navon and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Nitzan Akerman

38 papers receiving 926 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

  1. Inverse Mpemba Effect Demonstrated on a Single Trapped Ion Qubit
    2024 48 citations Yotam Shapira, Nitzan Akerman et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nitzan Akerman Israel 18 842 389 75 69 61 39 952
George Fitch United States 3 549 0.7× 402 1.0× 78 1.0× 24 0.3× 32 0.5× 4 628
Yutaka Shikano Japan 18 626 0.7× 438 1.1× 158 2.1× 14 0.2× 109 1.8× 59 811
Jianpei Geng China 12 472 0.6× 222 0.6× 214 2.9× 21 0.3× 37 0.6× 30 576
Saijun Wu China 15 914 1.1× 202 0.5× 28 0.4× 64 0.9× 49 0.8× 34 972
Jan F. Haase Germany 13 377 0.4× 252 0.6× 109 1.5× 29 0.4× 33 0.5× 29 582
Leigh S. Martin United States 12 497 0.6× 364 0.9× 21 0.3× 55 0.8× 82 1.3× 25 626
Huanqian Loh United States 15 633 0.8× 245 0.6× 46 0.6× 79 1.1× 31 0.5× 26 737
Andrea Alberti Germany 21 1.1k 1.3× 638 1.6× 34 0.5× 33 0.5× 157 2.6× 31 1.3k
Gastón García‐Calderón Mexico 20 1.1k 1.3× 273 0.7× 67 0.9× 30 0.4× 391 6.4× 72 1.2k
Ya. S. Greenberg Russia 11 500 0.6× 262 0.7× 23 0.3× 87 1.3× 21 0.3× 46 548

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nitzan Akerman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Akerman, Nitzan & Roee Ozeri. (2025). Operating a Multi-Ion Clock with Dynamical Decoupling. Physical Review Letters. 134(1). 13201–13201. 1 indexed citations
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Shapira, Yotam, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, Ady Stern, & Roee Ozeri. (2023). Quantum Simulations of Interacting Systems with Broken Time-Reversal Symmetry. Physical Review X. 13(2). 13 indexed citations
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Shapira, Yotam, et al.. (2023). Robust Two-Qubit Gates for Trapped Ions Using Spin-Dependent Squeezing. Physical Review Letters. 130(3). 30602–30602. 10 indexed citations
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Manovitz, Tom, et al.. (2022). Trapped-Ion Quantum Computer with Robust Entangling Gates and Quantum Coherent Feedback. PRX Quantum. 3(1). 25 indexed citations
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Shapira, Yotam, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, et al.. (2020). Theory of robust multiqubit nonadiabatic gates for trapped ions. Physical review. A. 101(3). 30 indexed citations
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Manovitz, Tom, Ravid Shaniv, Yotam Shapira, Roee Ozeri, & Nitzan Akerman. (2019). Precision Measurement of Atomic Isotope Shifts Using a Two-Isotope Entangled State. Physical Review Letters. 123(20). 203001–203001. 42 indexed citations
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Shaniv, Ravid, Nitzan Akerman, Tom Manovitz, Yotam Shapira, & Roee Ozeri. (2019). Quadrupole Shift Cancellation Using Dynamic Decoupling. Physical Review Letters. 122(22). 223204–223204. 17 indexed citations
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Shapira, Yotam, Ravid Shaniv, Tom Manovitz, Nitzan Akerman, & Roee Ozeri. (2018). Robust Entanglement Gates for Trapped-Ion Qubits. Physical Review Letters. 121(18). 180502–180502. 66 indexed citations
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Shaniv, Ravid, Tom Manovitz, Yotam Shapira, Nitzan Akerman, & Roee Ozeri. (2018). Toward Heisenberg-Limited Rabi Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 120(24). 243603–243603. 9 indexed citations
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Šikorský, Tomáš, et al.. (2018). Spin-controlled atom–ion chemistry. Nature Communications. 9(1). 920–920. 48 indexed citations
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Meir, Ziv, et al.. (2018). Direct Observation of Atom-Ion Nonequilibrium Sympathetic Cooling. Physical Review Letters. 121(5). 53402–53402. 22 indexed citations
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Manovitz, Tom, Amit Rotem, Ravid Shaniv, et al.. (2017). Fast Dynamical Decoupling of the Mølmer-Sørensen Entangling Gate. Physical Review Letters. 119(22). 220505–220505. 29 indexed citations
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Akerman, Nitzan, et al.. (2017). Trapping of Molecular Oxygen together with Lithium Atoms. Physical Review Letters. 119(7). 73204–73204. 33 indexed citations
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Meir, Ziv, et al.. (2017). Single-shot energy measurement of a single atom and the direct reconstruction of its energy distribution. Physical review. A. 96(2). 12 indexed citations
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Kotler, Shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yinnon Glickman, & Roee Ozeri. (2014). Nonlinear Single Spin Spectrum Analayzer. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Kotler, Shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Nir Navon, Yinnon Glickman, & Roee Ozeri. (2014). Measurement of the magnetic interaction between two bound electrons of two separate ions. Nature. 510(7505). 376–380. 49 indexed citations
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Navon, Nir, Nitzan Akerman, Shlomi Kotler, Yinnon Glickman, & Roee Ozeri. (2014). Quantum process tomography of a Mølmer-Sørensen interaction. Physical Review A. 90(1). 12 indexed citations
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Kotler, Shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yinnon Glickman, & Roee Ozeri. (2013). Nonlinear Single-Spin Spectrum Analyzer. Physical Review Letters. 110(11). 110503–110503. 50 indexed citations
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Navon, Nir, et al.. (2013). Addressing Two-Level Systems Variably Coupled to an Oscillating Field. Physical Review Letters. 111(7). 73001–73001. 16 indexed citations
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Kotler, Shlomi, Nitzan Akerman, Yinnon Glickman, Anna Keselman, & Roee Ozeri. (2011). Single-ion quantum lock-in amplifier. Nature. 473(7345). 61–65. 151 indexed citations

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