Päivi Törmä

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
204 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Päivi Törmä is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Päivi Törmä has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 160 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 51 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 45 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Päivi Törmä's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (82 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (44 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (42 papers). Päivi Törmä is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (82 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (44 papers) and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research (42 papers). Päivi Törmä collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and United States. Päivi Törmä's co-authors include William L. Barnes, Sebastiano Peotta, Tommi K. Hakala, J.-P. Martikainen, Aaro I. Väkeväinen, Heikki Rekola, J. J. Kinnunen, Long Liang, Aleksi Julku and Anton Kuzyk and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Päivi Törmä

199 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Strong coupling between surface plasmon polaritons and em... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2015 2022 2023 400 800 1.2k
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. Strong coupling between surface plasmon polaritons and emitters: a review
    2014 1.2k citations Päivi Törmä et al. profile →
  2. Superfluidity in topologically nontrivial flat bands
    2015 399 citations Sebastiano Peotta, Päivi Törmä Nature Communications profile →
  3. Superconductivity, superfluidity and quantum geometry in twisted multilayer systems
    2022 196 citations Päivi Törmä, Sebastiano Peotta et al. profile →
  4. Essay: Where Can Quantum Geometry Lead Us?
    2023 91 citations Päivi Törmä Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Päivi Törmä Finland 45 5.9k 3.2k 2.0k 1.5k 1.3k 204 8.7k
Jacob B. Khurgin United States 55 6.2k 1.1× 4.2k 1.3× 2.7k 1.4× 478 0.3× 6.8k 5.2× 492 11.6k
Emil Prodan United States 33 4.7k 0.8× 6.0k 1.9× 6.1k 3.1× 785 0.5× 1.3k 1.0× 98 10.5k
Juan Carlos Cuevas Spain 56 7.0k 1.2× 1.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.5× 5.3k 4.1× 192 11.0k
Alfred Leitenstorfer Germany 51 7.8k 1.3× 2.1k 0.6× 1.5k 0.8× 496 0.3× 5.8k 4.4× 248 11.3k
E. Galopin France 38 3.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.4× 544 0.3× 374 0.2× 1.2k 0.9× 79 5.0k
H. Q. Xu Sweden 49 6.7k 1.1× 3.6k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 1.9k 1.3× 5.1k 3.9× 276 11.6k
Ulrich Hohenester Austria 41 3.3k 0.6× 3.3k 1.0× 2.7k 1.4× 197 0.1× 1.6k 1.2× 165 6.6k
W. Langbein United Kingdom 53 6.9k 1.2× 1.8k 0.5× 592 0.3× 302 0.2× 4.3k 3.2× 334 9.5k
L. Kuipers Netherlands 57 5.9k 1.0× 6.2k 1.9× 2.6k 1.4× 244 0.2× 4.4k 3.3× 225 10.3k
Joseph W. Haus United States 39 4.1k 0.7× 1.6k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 695 0.5× 3.1k 2.4× 262 7.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Díez-Mérida, Jaime, P. K. Rout, Pauli Virtanen, et al.. (2025). Probing the Flat-Band Limit of the Superconducting Proximity Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene Josephson Junctions. Physical Review X. 15(4). 1 indexed citations
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Törmä, Päivi, et al.. (2025). Superfluid weight cross-over and critical temperature enhancement in singular flat bands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(7). e2416726122–e2416726122. 1 indexed citations
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Virtanen, Pauli, et al.. (2025). Superconducting junctions with flat bands. Physical review. B.. 112(10). 1 indexed citations
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Salerno, Grazia, et al.. (2024). High topological charge lasing in quasicrystals. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9544–9544. 10 indexed citations
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Salerno, Grazia, et al.. (2023). All-optical switching at the two-photon limit with interference-localized states. Physical Review Research. 5(4).
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Moilanen, Antti, et al.. (2022). Mode switching dynamics in organic polariton lasing. Physical review. B.. 106(19). 3 indexed citations
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Salerno, Grazia, et al.. (2022). Loss-driven topological transitions in lasing. CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa). 21 indexed citations
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Peotta, Sebastiano, et al.. (2021). Flat-band transport and Josephson effect through a finite-size sawtooth lattice. Physical review. B.. 103(14). 16 indexed citations
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Moilanen, Antti, et al.. (2020). Multimode Organic Polariton Lasing. Physical Review Letters. 125(23). 233603–233603. 43 indexed citations
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Kataja, Mikko, et al.. (2018). Plasmon-induced demagnetization and magnetic switching in nickel nanoparticle arrays. Applied Physics Letters. 112(7). 15 indexed citations
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Tylutki, Marek & Päivi Törmä. (2018). Spin-imbalanced Fermi superfluidity in a Hubbard model on a Lieb lattice. Physical review. B.. 98(9). 7 indexed citations
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Wang, Weijia, Mohammad Ramezani, Aaro I. Väkeväinen, et al.. (2017). The rich photonic world of plasmonic nanoparticle arrays. Materials Today. 21(3). 303–314. 361 indexed citations
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Nečada, Marek, J.-P. Martikainen, & Päivi Törmä. (2017). Quantum emitter dipole–dipole interactions in nanoplasmonic systems. International Journal of Modern Physics B. 31(24). 1740006–1740006. 7 indexed citations
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Liljeström, Ville, Ari Ora, Jukka Hassinen, et al.. (2017). Cooperative colloidal self-assembly of metal-protein superlattice wires. Nature Communications. 8(1). 671–671. 74 indexed citations
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Shi, Lina, Tommi K. Hakala, Heikki Rekola, et al.. (2014). Spatial Coherence Properties of Organic Molecules Coupled to Plasmonic Surface Lattice Resonances in the Weak and Strong Coupling Regimes. Physical Review Letters. 112(15). 153002–153002. 167 indexed citations
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Kim, DH & Päivi Törmä. (2012). Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state in the dimensional crossover between one- and three-dimensional lattices. Physical Review B. 85(18). 19 indexed citations
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Kinnunen, J. J., et al.. (2011). Density response of a trapped Fermi gas: A crossover from the pair vibration mode to the Goldstone mode. Physical Review A. 84(3). 6 indexed citations
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Kinnunen, J. J., et al.. (2011). Coexistence of pairing gaps in three-component Fermi gases. New Journal of Physics. 13(5). 55013–55013. 5 indexed citations
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Törmä, Päivi, et al.. (2011). Collective modes and the speed of sound in the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov state. Physical Review A. 83(5). 16 indexed citations
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Savin, Alexander, M. Zgirski, Päivi Törmä, et al.. (2003). Electron–phonon heat transport and electronic thermal conductivity in heavily doped silicon-on-insulator film. Journal of Applied Physics. 94(5). 3201–3205. 19 indexed citations

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