Pietro Gambardella

22.1k total citations · 9 hit papers
171 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Pietro Gambardella is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pietro Gambardella has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 59 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials and 52 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Pietro Gambardella's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (122 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (54 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (28 papers). Pietro Gambardella is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (122 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (54 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (28 papers). Pietro Gambardella collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and France. Pietro Gambardella's co-authors include Kévin Garello, Ioan Mihai Miron, Gilles Gaudin, S. Auffret, Can Onur Avci, Klaus Kern, Harald Brune, C. Carbone, B. Rodmacq and Sebastian Stepanow and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Pietro Gambardella

163 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

Perpendicular switching of a single ferromagnetic laye... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2011 2019 2013 2003 2002 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. Perpendicular switching of a single ferromagnetic layer induced by in-plane current injection
    2011 2.2k citations Ioan Mihai Miron, Pietro Gambardella et al. profile →
  2. Current-induced spin-orbit torques in ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems
    2019 1.1k citations Ioan Mihai Miron, T. Jungwirth et al. profile →
  3. Symmetry and magnitude of spin–orbit torques in ferromagnetic heterostructures
    2013 907 citations Ioan Mihai Miron, Pietro Gambardella et al. profile →
  4. Giant Magnetic Anisotropy of Single Cobalt Atoms and Nanoparticles
    2003 859 citations Pietro Gambardella, S. Rusponi et al. profile →
  5. Ferromagnetism in one-dimensional monatomic metal chains
    2002 695 citations Pietro Gambardella, C. Carbone et al. profile →
  6. Ultrafast magnetization switching by spin-orbit torques
    2014 378 citations Ioan Mihai Miron, Manuel Baumgartner et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
  7. Interplay of spin-orbit torque and thermoelectric effects in ferromagnet/normal-metal bilayers
    2014 336 citations Pietro Gambardella et al. profile →
  8. Current-driven magnetic domain-wall logic
    2020 323 citations Zhaochu Luo, Aleš Hrabec et al. profile →
  9. Reaching the magnetic anisotropy limit of a 3 d metal atom
    2014 294 citations I. G. Rau, Susanne Baumann et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pietro Gambardella Switzerland 55 12.2k 5.3k 5.2k 4.9k 4.1k 171 15.1k
Stefan Blügel Germany 82 21.0k 1.7× 6.1k 1.1× 8.4k 1.6× 10.6k 2.2× 9.9k 2.4× 603 27.9k
Е. В. Чулков Spain 65 13.0k 1.1× 2.9k 0.5× 2.1k 0.4× 8.1k 1.7× 4.2k 1.0× 518 16.4k
Claus M. Schneider Germany 56 7.2k 0.6× 3.4k 0.6× 3.1k 0.6× 4.5k 0.9× 2.6k 0.6× 511 11.8k
J. K. Furdyna United States 51 9.9k 0.8× 6.0k 1.1× 4.0k 0.8× 9.1k 1.9× 3.0k 0.7× 535 15.0k
Peter M. Oppeneer Sweden 55 7.1k 0.6× 3.2k 0.6× 4.0k 0.8× 3.9k 0.8× 3.4k 0.8× 310 11.3k
Mathias Kläui Germany 66 11.7k 1.0× 4.3k 0.8× 5.9k 1.1× 4.1k 0.9× 5.0k 1.2× 401 14.7k
Christopher P. Lutz United States 41 8.8k 0.7× 4.1k 0.8× 1.5k 0.3× 2.5k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 64 10.8k
K. H. Ploog Germany 64 10.1k 0.8× 5.6k 1.1× 4.8k 0.9× 6.5k 1.3× 6.5k 1.6× 643 15.9k
H. R. Krishnamurthy India 41 4.9k 0.4× 2.8k 0.5× 2.7k 0.5× 5.2k 1.1× 4.7k 1.2× 143 11.5k
P. Bruno Germany 60 11.6k 1.0× 2.1k 0.4× 6.2k 1.2× 4.5k 0.9× 6.0k 1.5× 236 14.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2026). On demand laser-induced frequency tuning of coherent magnons in a nanometer-thick magnet at room temperature. Nature Communications. 17(1). 145–145.
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Du, Ao, Tianxiao Nie, Shilei Ding, et al.. (2025). Subnanosecond Field‐Free Switching of a Wafer‐Scalable van der Waals Ferromagnet at Room Temperature. Advanced Materials. 37(44). e05190–e05190.
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Schlitz, Richard, et al.. (2025). Auto-oscillations and directional magnon emission induced by spin current injection into large magnetic volumes. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8472–8472.
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Noël, Paul, et al.. (2025). Nonlinear Longitudinal and Transverse Magnetoresistances due to Current-Induced Magnon Creation-Annihilation Processes. Physical Review Letters. 134(14). 146701–146701. 3 indexed citations
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Sala, Giacomo, et al.. (2025). Competing ordinary and Hanle magnetoresistance in Pt and Ti thin films. Physical review. B.. 111(10). 2 indexed citations
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Noël, Paul, Richard Schlitz, Pol Welter, et al.. (2025). Estimation of spin-orbit torques in the presence of current-induced magnon creation and annihilation. Physical review. B.. 111(14). 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Zhaochu, V. Raposo, Laura J. Heyderman, et al.. (2024). Control of spin–orbit torque-driven domain nucleation through geometry in chirally coupled magnetic tracks. Applied Physics Letters. 125(14).
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Gambardella, Pietro, et al.. (2024). Observation of different Li intercalation states and local doping in epitaxial mono- and bilayer graphene on SiC(0001). Nanoscale. 16(6). 3160–3165. 2 indexed citations
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Luo, Zhaochu, Ivan Shorubalko, Christof Vockenhuber, et al.. (2023). Strong lateral exchange coupling and current-induced switching in single-layer ferrimagnetic films with patterned compensation temperature. Physical review. B.. 107(10). 9 indexed citations
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Lambert, Charles‐Henri, et al.. (2023). Spin–orbit torques and magnetization switching in Gd/Fe multilayers generated by current injection in NiCu alloys. Applied Physics Letters. 123(26). 2 indexed citations
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Yun, Chao, Aleš Hrabec, Mantao Huang, et al.. (2023). Electrically programmable magnetic coupling in an Ising network exploiting solid-state ionic gating. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6367–6367. 10 indexed citations
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Sala, Giacomo, Charles‐Henri Lambert, Simone Finizio, et al.. (2022). Asynchronous current-induced switching of rare-earth and transition-metal sublattices in ferrimagnetic alloys. Nature Materials. 21(6). 640–646. 33 indexed citations
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Wu, Jiaen, David Folio, Bumjin Jang, et al.. (2022). Motion Analysis and Real‐Time Trajectory Prediction of Magnetically Steerable Catalytic Janus Micromotors. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(11). 9 indexed citations
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Bellini, V., S. Rusponi, Jindřich Kolorenč, et al.. (2022). Slow Magnetic Relaxation of Dy Adatoms with In-Plane Magnetic Anisotropy on a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas. ACS Nano. 16(7). 11182–11193. 13 indexed citations
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Donati, Fabio, Marina Pivetta, Christoph Wolf, et al.. (2021). Correlation between Electronic Configuration and Magnetic Stability in Dysprosium Single Atom Magnets. Nano Letters. 21(19). 8266–8273. 27 indexed citations
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Seifert, Tom S., et al.. (2021). Accurate measurement of atomic magnetic moments by minimizing the tip magnetic field in STM-based electron paramagnetic resonance. Physical Review Research. 3(4). 17 indexed citations
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Valbuena, Miguel A., Roberto Robles, César Moreno, et al.. (2020). Molecular Approach for Engineering Interfacial Interactions in Magnetic/Topological Insulator Heterostructures. ACS Nano. 14(5). 6285–6294. 12 indexed citations
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Olejník, K., Tom S. Seifert, Zdeněk Kašpar, et al.. (2018). Terahertz electrical writing speed in an antiferromagnetic memory. Science Advances. 4(3). eaar3566–eaar3566. 240 indexed citations
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Baumann, Susanne, Fabio Donati, Sebastian Stepanow, et al.. (2015). Origin of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy and Large Orbital Moment in Fe Atoms on MgO. Physical Review Letters. 115(23). 237202–237202. 100 indexed citations
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Gambardella, Pietro & Ioan Mihai Miron. (2011). Current-induced spin–orbit torques. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 369(1948). 3175–3197. 283 indexed citations

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