Patrick Becker

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Patrick Becker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick Becker has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Molecular Biology, 9 papers in Organic Chemistry and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Patrick Becker's work include Quantum many-body systems (5 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (4 papers). Patrick Becker is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (5 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (4 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (4 papers). Patrick Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Patrick Becker's co-authors include C. Monroe, A. Kyprianidis, Guido Pagano, Paul Hess, J. Zhang, Harvey Kaplan, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Zhexuan Gong, Norman Y. Yao and Andrew C. Potter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick Becker

25 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Observation of a discrete time crystal

2017 719 citations J. Zhang, Paul Hess et al. Nature profile →
Observation of a many-body dynamical phase transition with a 53-qubit quantum simulator

2017 695 citations J. Zhang, Guido Pagano et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick Becker Germany	10	1.6k	837	513	257	110	29	2.0k
A. Kyprianidis United States	7	1.6k 1.0×	839 1.0×	512 1.0×	256 1.0×	68 0.6×	9	1.9k
Dario Poletti Singapore	28	2.0k 1.3×	736 0.9×	857 1.7×	418 1.6×	196 1.8×	93	2.4k
Bela Bauer United States	24	2.3k 1.4×	723 0.9×	499 1.0×	1.1k 4.1×	125 1.1×	46	2.7k
Dong-Ling Deng China	25	1.3k 0.8×	800 1.0×	325 0.6×	293 1.1×	251 2.3×	68	1.8k
Petar Jurcevic Austria	16	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	446 0.9×	291 1.1×	46 0.4×	23	2.4k
Pedro Ribeiro Portugal	18	1.0k 0.6×	404 0.5×	343 0.7×	246 1.0×	86 0.8×	78	1.2k
Cornelius Hempel Austria	18	2.4k 1.5×	1.6k 2.0×	440 0.9×	296 1.2×	57 0.5×	28	2.7k
Marin Bukov United States	20	2.0k 1.3×	550 0.7×	531 1.0×	501 1.9×	159 1.4×	46	2.3k
Sandro Wimberger Italy	28	2.0k 1.3×	756 0.9×	833 1.6×	103 0.4×	68 0.6×	122	2.3k
Bryan K. Clark United States	20	1.1k 0.7×	583 0.7×	198 0.4×	353 1.4×	191 1.7×	55	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick Becker

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick Becker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick Becker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick Becker based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick Becker. Patrick Becker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stier, Michael A., Johannes Kästner, & Patrick Becker. (2025). Electrochemical trifluoromethylation of imidazoles: Mechanistic insight from computation. Chemical Physics Letters. 864. 141842–141842. 1 indexed citations

Becker, Patrick, et al.. (2025). Genetic Blueprint for Stringent Response in Betaproteobacterial Aromatoleum/Azoarcus/Thauera Cluster. Microbial Physiology. 35(1). 30–49.

Becker, Patrick, Andreas Hans, Wolfgang Frey, et al.. (2025). Tunable Endo/Exo Selectivity in Direct Catalytic Asymmetric 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloadditions with Polyfunctional Lewis Acid / Azolium–Aryloxide Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(34). e202508024–e202508024. 1 indexed citations

Becker, Patrick, Katja Heinze, Biprajit Sarkar, & Johannes Kästner. (2024). Redox−Acid/Base Phase Diagrams as an Entry to Computational Redox Chemistry. ChemElectroChem. 11(20). 2 indexed citations

Turgeon, D. Kim, Julia Luther, Patrick Becker, et al.. (2024). A novel, noninvasive, multimodal screening test for the early detection of precancerous lesions and colorectal cancers using an artificial intelligence–based algorithm.. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 42(16_suppl). 3627–3627.

Becker, Patrick, Nick Wannenmacher, Slava Ziegler, et al.. (2023). Kooperative Lewis‐Säure‐1,2,3‐Triazolium‐Aryloxid‐Katalyse: Addition von Pyrazolonen an Nitroolefine als Zugang zu Diaminoamiden. Angewandte Chemie. 135(36).

Becker, Patrick, et al.. (2023). Mechanism of substrate binding and transport in BASS transporters. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

Becker, Patrick, Nick Wannenmacher, Slava Ziegler, et al.. (2023). Cooperative Lewis Acid‐1,2,3‐Triazolium‐Aryloxide Catalysis: Pyrazolone Addition to Nitroolefins as Entry to Diaminoamides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(36). e202307317–e202307317. 6 indexed citations

Becker, Patrick, Lars Wöhlbrand, Meina Neumann‐Schaal, et al.. (2022). Complex and flexible catabolism in Aromatoleum aromaticum pCyN1. Environmental Microbiology. 24(7). 3195–3211. 8 indexed citations

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Becker, Patrick, et al.. (2021). Complete Genomes of the Anaerobic Degradation Specialists Aromatoleum petrolei ToN1T and Aromatoleum bremense PbN1T. Microbial Physiology. 31(1). 16–35. 9 indexed citations

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Pagano, Guido, Aniruddha Bapat, Patrick Becker, et al.. (2020). Quantum approximate optimization of the long-range Ising model with a trapped-ion quantum simulator. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(41). 25396–25401. 146 indexed citations

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Becker, Patrick, Wen Lin Tan, Guido Pagano, et al.. (2020). Observation of Domain Wall Confinement and Dynamics in a Quantum Simulator. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2020. 3 indexed citations

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Becker, Patrick, Christoph Förster, Luca M. Carrella, et al.. (2020). Spin Crossover and Long‐Lived Excited States in a Reduced Molecular Ruby. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(32). 7199–7204. 31 indexed citations

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Pagano, Guido, Aniruddha Bapat, Patrick Becker, et al.. (2019). Quantum Approximate Optimization with a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations

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Becker, Patrick, René Jarling, Marc Schmidtmann, et al.. (2019). Stereochemical Insights into the Anaerobic Degradation of 4‐Isopropylbenzoyl‐CoA in the Denitrifying Bacterium Strain pCyN1. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(18). 4722–4731. 7 indexed citations

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Pagano, Guido, Paul Hess, Harvey Kaplan, et al.. (2018). Cryogenic trapped-ion system for large scale quantum simulation. Quantum Science and Technology. 4(1). 14004–14004. 95 indexed citations

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Zhang, J., Guido Pagano, Paul Hess, et al.. (2017). Observation of a many-body dynamical phase transition with a 53-qubit quantum simulator. Nature. 551(7682). 601–604. 695 indexed citations breakdown →

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Corradi, Valentina, Hassanul G. Choudhury, Rohanah Hussain, et al.. (2016). Structural and Functional Basis for Lipid Synergy on the Activity of the Antibacterial Peptide ABC Transporter McjD. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 291(41). 21656–21668. 26 indexed citations

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Braun, Christian, Patrick Becker, Cristina Arrigoni, et al.. (2013). Viral potassium channels as a robust model system for studies of membrane–protein interaction. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1838(4). 1096–1103. 24 indexed citations

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Becker, Patrick, et al.. (2002). In Situ Deuteron NMR Investigations of Sheared Liquid Crystalline Polymers. Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 22(2-3). 311–326. 8 indexed citations

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