Obinna Abah

3.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
30 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Obinna Abah is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Obinna Abah has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Obinna Abah's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (17 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (12 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (5 papers). Obinna Abah is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (17 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (12 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (5 papers). Obinna Abah collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Nigeria. Obinna Abah's co-authors include Eric Lutz, Kilian Singer, F. Schmidt‐Kaler, J. Roßnagel, Sebastian Deffner, Karl Nicolas Tolazzi, S. T. Dawkins, Mauro Paternostro, Georg Jacob and Nathan M. Myers and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Solid State Communications.

In The Last Decade

Obinna Abah

28 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

A single-atom heat engine

2016 505 citations J. Roßnagel, Obinna Abah et al. profile →
Nanoscale Heat Engine Beyond the Carnot Limit

2014 439 citations J. Roßnagel, Obinna Abah et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Single-Ion Heat Engine at Maximum Power

2012 327 citations Obinna Abah, J. Roßnagel et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

2022 138 citations Nathan M. Myers, Obinna Abah et al. AVS Quantum Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Obinna Abah United Kingdom	15	1.6k	1.4k	862	544	124	30	1.9k
Martí Perarnau-Llobet Switzerland	26	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.5×	252 0.5×	66 0.5×	57	2.1k
Michele Campisi Italy	24	2.5k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.3k 1.5×	455 0.8×	75 0.6×	62	3.0k
Amikam Levy Israel	14	1.2k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	756 0.9×	351 0.6×	74 0.6×	23	1.5k
Kay Brandner United Kingdom	17	1.0k 0.6×	634 0.5×	253 0.3×	353 0.6×	90 0.7×	32	1.2k
Jonne Koski Switzerland	16	753 0.5×	946 0.7×	488 0.6×	170 0.3×	41 0.3×	23	1.3k
Giacomo Guarnieri Italy	19	720 0.4×	827 0.6×	582 0.7×	136 0.3×	26 0.2×	50	1.2k
Naoto Shiraishi Japan	14	675 0.4×	515 0.4×	277 0.3×	88 0.2×	46 0.4×	30	907
Raam Uzdin Israel	17	1.1k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	505 0.6×	204 0.4×	41 0.3×	33	1.4k
Mark T. Mitchison Ireland	17	840 0.5×	947 0.7×	679 0.8×	144 0.3×	30 0.2×	34	1.2k
V. F. Maisi Finland	20	608 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	417 0.5×	128 0.2×	36 0.3×	53	1.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Abah, Obinna, C. O. Edet, Norshamsuri Ali, Berihu Teklu, & Muhammad Asjad. (2023). Irreversibility in an Optical Parametric Driven Optomechanical System. Annalen der Physik. 536(3).

Singh, Varinder, Satnam Singh, Obinna Abah, & Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu. (2022). Unified trade-off optimization of quantum harmonic Otto engine and refrigerator. Physical review. E. 106(2). 24137–24137. 1 indexed citations

Abah, Obinna, Gabriele De Chiara, Mauro Paternostro, & Ricardo Puebla. (2022). Harnessing nonadiabatic excitations promoted by a quantum critical point: Quantum battery and spin squeezing. Physical Review Research. 4(2). 13 indexed citations

Myers, Nathan M., Obinna Abah, & Sebastian Deffner. (2022). Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality. AVS Quantum Science. 4(2). 138 indexed citations breakdown →

Garbe, Louis, Obinna Abah, Simone Felicetti, & Ricardo Puebla. (2022). Critical quantum metrology with fully-connected models: from Heisenberg to Kibble–Zurek scaling. Quantum Science and Technology. 7(3). 35010–35010. 38 indexed citations

Garbe, Louis, Obinna Abah, Simone Felicetti, & Ricardo Puebla. (2022). Exponential time-scaling of estimation precision by reaching a quantum critical point. Physical Review Research. 4(4). 24 indexed citations

Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2021). Unified trade-off optimization of quantum harmonic Otto engine and refrigerator. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations

Abah, Obinna, Ricardo Puebla, & Mauro Paternostro. (2020). Quantum State Engineering by Shortcuts to Adiabaticity in Interacting Spin-Boson Systems. Physical Review Letters. 124(18). 180401–180401. 18 indexed citations

Puebla, Ricardo, Obinna Abah, & Mauro Paternostro. (2020). Measurement-based cooling of a nonlinear mechanical resonator. Physical review. B.. 101(24). 12 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna & Mauro Paternostro. (2019). Shortcut-to-adiabaticity Otto engine: A twist to finite-time thermodynamics. Physical review. E. 99(2). 22110–22110. 52 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, Ricardo Puebla, Anthony Kiely, et al.. (2019). Energetic cost of quantum control protocols. New Journal of Physics. 21(10). 103048–103048. 28 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2018). Morphological Changes of Carbonate Deformed Clasts in a Neogene Fault Zone. Proceedings. 2 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna & Eric Lutz. (2017). Energy efficient quantum machines. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 118(4). 40005–40005. 53 indexed citations

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Roßnagel, J., Obinna Abah, F. Schmidt‐Kaler, Kilian Singer, & Eric Lutz. (2014). Nanoscale Heat Engine Beyond the Carnot Limit. Physical Review Letters. 112(3). 30602–30602. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2012). Theoretical investigation of isotope effect of the iron-based superconductors. Physica C Superconductivity. 485. 71–74. 2 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2012). Theoretical Analysis of Isotope Effect Exponent of Diboride and Iron-Based Superconductors: Three-Square-Well Model Approach. Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism. 26(4). 1195–1198. 3 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, J. Roßnagel, Georg Jacob, et al.. (2012). Single-Ion Heat Engine at Maximum Power. Physical Review Letters. 109(20). 203006–203006. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2011). Influence of linear-energy-dependent density of states on two-band superconductors: Three-square-well model approach. Physica C Superconductivity. 471(15-16). 444–448. 5 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2011). 100 Years of Superconductivity: The Contributions and Challenges of Researchers in Nigeria. 1 indexed citations

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Abah, Obinna, et al.. (2009). Interband interactions and three-square-well potentials on the superconductivity of MgB2. Solid State Communications. 149(37-38). 1510–1513. 7 indexed citations

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