Paola Cappellaro

13.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
130 papers, 9.1k citations indexed

About

Paola Cappellaro is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Paola Cappellaro has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 9.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 56 papers in Materials Chemistry and 41 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Paola Cappellaro's work include Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (55 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (39 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (36 papers). Paola Cappellaro is often cited by papers focused on Diamond and Carbon-based Materials Research (55 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (39 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (36 papers). Paola Cappellaro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Paola Cappellaro's co-authors include Christian L. Degen, Friedemann Reinhard, Mikhail D. Lukin, Liang Jiang, Amir Yacoby, Ronald L. Walsworth, Jacob M. Taylor, J. R. Maze, Philip Hemmer and Chandrasekhar Ramanathan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Paola Cappellaro

124 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

Quantum sensing 2008 2026 2014 2020 2017 2008 2008 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Quantum sensing
    2017 2.4k citations Christian L. Degen, Friedemann Reinhard et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
  2. Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond
    2008 1.4k citations Paola Cappellaro, Amir Yacoby et al. profile →
  3. High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution
    2008 1.3k citations Paola Cappellaro, Amir Yacoby et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paola Cappellaro United States 38 6.8k 4.4k 2.6k 1.5k 1.3k 130 9.1k
Matthew Markham United Kingdom 46 7.7k 1.1× 6.5k 1.5× 3.4k 1.3× 1.8k 1.2× 2.1k 1.7× 109 10.9k
Christian L. Degen Switzerland 33 5.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.6× 789 0.5× 1.9k 1.5× 109 7.3k
Lilian Childress United States 27 5.7k 0.8× 4.4k 1.0× 2.4k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.2× 44 7.7k
Philipp Neumann Germany 43 6.0k 0.9× 6.5k 1.5× 1.8k 0.7× 2.1k 1.4× 1.9k 1.5× 68 9.1k
Friedemann Reinhard Germany 23 3.8k 0.6× 3.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.7× 950 0.8× 45 5.9k
A. S. Zibrov United States 36 11.8k 1.7× 4.1k 0.9× 4.4k 1.7× 1.1k 0.7× 2.5k 2.0× 88 14.3k
Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg Australia 54 9.3k 1.4× 5.0k 1.1× 3.8k 1.5× 1.4k 0.9× 4.3k 3.4× 295 13.1k
Ronald Hanson Netherlands 50 12.8k 1.9× 5.3k 1.2× 6.4k 2.5× 1.2k 0.8× 4.5k 3.5× 110 15.8k
Norman Y. Yao United States 43 7.1k 1.1× 2.5k 0.6× 2.3k 0.9× 644 0.4× 785 0.6× 136 9.4k
Kohei M. Itoh Japan 50 6.9k 1.0× 3.7k 0.8× 2.7k 1.0× 630 0.4× 4.6k 3.6× 303 10.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paola Cappellaro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paola Cappellaro

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cappellaro, Paola, et al.. (2025). Energy exchange statistics and fluctuation theorem for nonthermal asymptotic states. Physical review. E. 111(1). 14139–14139.
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Peng, Pai, et al.. (2024). Frame change technique for phase transient cancellation. Journal of Magnetic Resonance. 362. 107688–107688. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Guoqing, et al.. (2024). Hyperfine-Enhanced Gyroscope Based on Solid-State Spins. Physical Review Letters. 133(15). 150801–150801. 1 indexed citations
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Cappellaro, Paola, et al.. (2024). Control of an Environmental Spin Defect beyond the Coherence Limit of a Central Spin. PRX Quantum. 5(1). 6 indexed citations
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Tang, Hao, Guoqing Wang, Haowei Xu, et al.. (2023). Communication-Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Distributed Machine Learning. Physical Review Letters. 130(15). 150602–150602. 7 indexed citations
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Xu, Haowei, Changhao Li, Guoqing Wang, et al.. (2023). Two-Photon Interface of Nuclear Spins Based on the Optonuclear Quadrupolar Effect. Physical Review X. 13(1). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Guoqing, Changhao Li, Hao Tang, et al.. (2023). Manipulating solid-state spin concentration through charge transport. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(32). e2305621120–e2305621120. 5 indexed citations
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Ye, Erika, et al.. (2023). Quantum algorithm for the linear Vlasov equation with collisions. Physical review. A. 107(6). 5 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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Wang, Guoqing, Hao Tang, Mo Chen, et al.. (2023). Characterizing Temperature and Strain Variations with Qubit Ensembles for Their Robust Coherence Protection. Physical Review Letters. 131(4). 11 indexed citations
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Gherardini, Stefano, Michele Campisi, Andrea Trombettoni, et al.. (2022). Autonomous Dissipative Maxwell’s Demon in a Diamond Spin Qutrit. PRX Quantum. 3(2). 22 indexed citations
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Li, Changhao, Tianyi Li, Yi-Xiang Liu, & Paola Cappellaro. (2021). Effective routing design for remote entanglement generation on quantum networks. npj Quantum Information. 7(1). 75 indexed citations
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Cooper, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Improved entanglement detection with subspace witnesses. Physical review. A. 101(1). 7 indexed citations
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Cooper, Alexandre, et al.. (2020). Identification and Control of Electron-Nuclear Spin Defects in Diamond. Physical Review Letters. 124(8). 83602–83602. 21 indexed citations
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Chen, Mo, et al.. (2020). Repetitive readout enhanced by machine learning. Machine Learning Science and Technology. 1(1). 15003–15003. 23 indexed citations
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Liu, Yi-Xiang, et al.. (2020). High-fidelity Trotter formulas for digital quantum simulation. Physical review. A. 102(1). 5 indexed citations
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Hirose, Masashi & Paola Cappellaro. (2018). Time-optimal control with finite bandwidth. Quantum Information Processing. 17(4). 12 indexed citations
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Degen, Christian L., Friedemann Reinhard, & Paola Cappellaro. (2017). Quantum sensing. Reviews of Modern Physics. 89(3). 2440 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pham, Linh, Stephen J. DeVience, Nir Bar‐Gill, et al.. (2014). Nanoscale NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Multiple Nuclear Species. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 3 indexed citations
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Pérez-Delgado, Carlos A., Michele Mosca, Paola Cappellaro, & David G. Cory. (2006). Single Spin Measurement Using Cellular Automata Techniques. Physical Review Letters. 97(10). 100501–100501. 27 indexed citations

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