Norman Y. Yao

14.4k total citations · 11 hit papers
136 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Norman Y. Yao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Norman Y. Yao has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 33 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Norman Y. Yao's work include Quantum many-body systems (62 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (38 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (29 papers). Norman Y. Yao is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (62 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (38 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (29 papers). Norman Y. Yao collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Norman Y. Yao's co-authors include Mikhail D. Lukin, Georg Kucsko, Peter C. Maurer, Andrew C. Potter, Pik Kwan Lo, Hongkun Park, M. K. Kubo, H.‐J. Noh, Ionut-Dragos Potirniche and Ashvin Vishwanath and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Norman Y. Yao

131 papers receiving 9.3k 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.

Nanometre-scale thermometry in a living cell

2013 1.4k citations Georg Kucsko, Peter C. Maurer et al. Nature profile →
Observation of a discrete time crystal

2017 719 citations Norman Y. Yao, C. Monroe et al. Nature profile →
Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered dipolar many-body system

2017 634 citations Georg Kucsko, Norman Y. Yao et al. Nature profile →
Room-Temperature Quantum Bit Memory Exceeding One Second

2012 618 citations Peter C. Maurer, Georg Kucsko et al. Science profile →
Programmable quantum simulations of spin systems with trapped ions

2021 476 citations C. Monroe, Alexey V. Gorshkov et al. profile →
Discrete Time Crystals: Rigidity, Criticality, and Realizations

2017 383 citations Norman Y. Yao et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Verified quantum information scrambling

2019 242 citations Thomas Schuster, Norman Y. Yao et al. Nature profile →
Quantum Information Scrambling on a Superconducting Qutrit Processor

2021 182 citations Machiel Blok, Vinay Ramasesh et al. Physical Review X profile →
Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion

2022 134 citations David Wei, Antonio Rubio-Abadal et al. Science profile →
Continuous symmetry breaking in a two-dimensional Rydberg array

2023 108 citations Cheng Chen, Guillaume Bornet et al. Nature profile →
Colloquium: Quantum and classical discrete time crystals

2023 104 citations Mikhail D. Lukin, C. Monroe et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Norman Y. Yao United States	43	7.1k	2.5k	2.3k	1.7k	1.3k	136	9.4k
Dieter Suter Germany	46	5.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	2.4k 1.1×	598 0.4×	283 0.2×	250	8.7k
Jianshu Cao United States	52	6.6k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	893 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	253 0.2×	199	8.4k
Werner Krauth France	41	5.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	723 0.3×	707 0.4×	7.5k 5.9×	94	10.9k
Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen Netherlands	36	2.3k 0.3×	669 0.3×	983 0.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	200	4.7k
Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg Australia	54	9.3k 1.3×	5.0k 2.0×	3.8k 1.7×	267 0.2×	426 0.3×	295	13.1k
Yigal Meir Israel	45	8.8k 1.2×	2.0k 0.8×	737 0.3×	769 0.5×	2.7k 2.1×	151	11.5k
Christian L. Degen Switzerland	33	5.1k 0.7×	3.2k 1.3×	1.4k 0.6×	217 0.1×	311 0.2×	109	7.3k
Guido Burkard Germany	51	10.0k 1.4×	3.9k 1.6×	4.9k 2.2×	215 0.1×	719 0.6×	221	13.0k
Niels Grønbech‐Jensen United States	41	2.5k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	239 0.1×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	229	5.5k
G. T. Barkema Netherlands	33	1.4k 0.2×	2.2k 0.9×	203 0.1×	722 0.4×	1.8k 1.4×	149	5.4k

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Ye, Bingtian, Zilin Wang, Maxwell Block, et al.. (2025). Spin squeezing in an ensemble of nitrogen–vacancy centres in diamond. Nature. 646(8083). 74–80.

Maskara, Nishad, Stefan Ostermann, James Shee, et al.. (2025). Programmable simulations of molecules and materials with reconfigurable quantum processors. Nature Physics. 21(2). 289–297. 7 indexed citations

Schuster, Thomas, et al.. (2025). A Polynomial-Time Classical Algorithm for Noisy Quantum Circuits. Physical Review X. 15(4). 1 indexed citations

Chen, Cheng, Guillaume Bornet, Marcus Bintz, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopy of elementary excitations from quench dynamics in a dipolar XY Rydberg simulator. Science. 389(6759). 483–487. 4 indexed citations

Laumann, Chris R., et al.. (2025). Approximately Symmetric Neural Networks for Quantum Spin Liquids. Physical Review Letters. 135(5). 56702–56702.

Block, Maxwell, et al.. (2025). Observation of Spin Squeezing with Contact Interactions in One- and Three-Dimensional Easy-Plane Magnets. Physical Review Letters. 135(2). 23402–23402. 2 indexed citations

Sbierski, Björn, et al.. (2024). Magnetism in the two-dimensional dipolar XY model. Physical review. B.. 109(14). 15 indexed citations

Pizzi, Andrea & Norman Y. Yao. (2024). Bipartite mutual information in classical many-body dynamics. Physical review. B.. 110(2). 3 indexed citations

Block, Maxwell, Bingtian Ye, Zilin Wang, et al.. (2024). Scalable spin squeezing from finite-temperature easy-plane magnetism. Nature Physics. 20(10). 1575–1581. 17 indexed citations

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Ye, Bingtian, et al.. (2023). Quasi-Floquet Prethermalization in a Disordered Dipolar Spin Ensemble in Diamond. Physical Review Letters. 131(13). 16 indexed citations

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Zhu, Daiwei, L. H. Lewis, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2023). Interactive cryptographic proofs of quantumness using mid-circuit measurements. Nature Physics. 19(11). 1725–1731. 10 indexed citations

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Peng, Pai, Bingtian Ye, Norman Y. Yao, & Paola Cappellaro. (2023). Exploiting disorder to probe spin and energy hydrodynamics. Nature Physics. 19(7). 1027–1032. 15 indexed citations

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Wei, David, Antonio Rubio-Abadal, Bingtian Ye, et al.. (2022). Quantum gas microscopy of Kardar-Parisi-Zhang superdiffusion. Science. 376(6594). 716–720. 134 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zhao, Wenyu, Emma C. Regan, Danqing Wang, et al.. (2021). Dynamic Tuning of Moiré Excitons in a WSe₂/WS₂ Heterostructure via Mechanical Deformation. Nano Letters. 21(20). 8910–8916. 20 indexed citations

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Machado, Francisco, et al.. (2021). Emergent Ergodicity at the Transition between Many-Body Localized Phases. Physical Review Letters. 126(10). 100604–100604. 25 indexed citations

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Yao, Norman Y., et al.. (2020). Symmetry-Enhanced Boundary Qubits at Infinite Temperature. Physical Review Letters. 125(20). 200506–200506. 16 indexed citations

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Parker, Richard H., et al.. (2019). Bloch beamsplitters and dual-lattice methods for atom interferometry. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Blok, Machiel, Vinay Ramasesh, James Colless, et al.. (2018). Implementation and Applications of Two Qutrit Gates in Superconducting Transmon Qubits. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2018. 1 indexed citations

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Hazzard, Kaden R. A., Bryce Gadway, Michael Foss‐Feig, et al.. (2014). Many-Body Dynamics of Dipolar Molecules in an Optical Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 113(19). 195302–195302. 140 indexed citations

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Maurer, Peter C., Nicholas Chisholm, Georg Kucsko, et al.. (2010). Progress towards room temperature quantum computation based on NV centers in diamond. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 55(5). 1 indexed citations

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