S. Swain

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

S. Swain is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Swain has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 119 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 73 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 10 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in S. Swain's work include Quantum optics and atomic interactions (88 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (73 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (55 papers). S. Swain is often cited by papers focused on Quantum optics and atomic interactions (88 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (73 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (55 papers). S. Swain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and China. S. Swain's co-authors include Peng Zhou, Z. Ficek, Scott E. Smart, Mao-Fa Fang, Peng Zhou, T. A. B. Kennedy, B. J. Dalton, Peter Rodgers, Christopher J. Mertens and Ashis Kumar Jena and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

S. Swain

133 papers receiving 3.4k citations

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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.

Handbook of Stochastic Methods for Physics, Chemistry and the Natural Sciences

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Swain United Kingdom	29	3.0k	1.7k	347	231	154	133	3.5k
F.W. Cummings United States	16	5.6k 1.8×	4.4k 2.6×	653 1.9×	341 1.5×	225 1.5×	49	6.0k
Thomas Pohl Germany	46	6.6k 2.2×	1.7k 1.0×	560 1.6×	266 1.2×	125 0.8×	131	6.9k
Peter Maunz United States	28	4.5k 1.5×	4.0k 2.4×	253 0.7×	462 2.0×	97 0.6×	55	5.2k
David Guéry-Odelin France	29	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	851 2.5×	144 0.6×	83 0.5×	87	3.5k
G. P. Berman United States	30	2.3k 0.8×	853 0.5×	1.0k 2.9×	443 1.9×	113 0.7×	215	3.0k
Martin Weitz Germany	36	4.1k 1.3×	711 0.4×	621 1.8×	399 1.7×	153 1.0×	116	4.4k
Robin Kaiser France	34	4.3k 1.4×	1.3k 0.7×	391 1.1×	385 1.7×	277 1.8×	178	4.8k
Julio Gea-Banacloche United States	27	4.1k 1.3×	2.3k 1.4×	323 0.9×	650 2.8×	104 0.7×	114	4.5k
R. DeVoe United States	25	2.3k 0.7×	754 0.4×	250 0.7×	413 1.8×	81 0.5×	47	2.7k
Murray Sargent United States	23	2.5k 0.8×	702 0.4×	208 0.6×	838 3.6×	138 0.9×	64	2.8k

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Swain, S., G. Pratten, & P. Schmidt. (2025). Strong field scattering of black holes: Assessing resummation strategies. Physical review. D. 111(6). 3 indexed citations

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Swain, S. & Ashis Kumar Jena. (2025). Green Synthesis of N,S-Doped Carbon Dots from the Giloy Stem for Fluorimetry Detection of 4-Nitrophenol, Triple-Mode Detection of Congo Red, and Antioxidant Applications. ACS Omega. 10(6). 5874–5885. 10 indexed citations

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Swain, S. & Z. Ficek. (2002). The damped and coherently-driven Jaynes$ndash$Cummings model. Journal of Optics B Quantum and Semiclassical Optics. 4(4). S328–S336. 3 indexed citations

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Fang, Mao-Fa, Peng Zhou, & S. Swain. (2000). Entropy squeezing for a two-level atom. Journal of Modern Optics. 47(6). 1043–1053. 92 indexed citations

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Swain, S., et al.. (1999). Fluorescence quenching and spectral narrowing from a two-level atom driven by a weak, narrowband, light field. Journal of Modern Optics. 46(8). 1233–1250. 1 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng, Z. Ficek, & S. Swain. (1996). Hole-burning and dispersive profiles at line center of the probe absorption spectrum of a two-level atom in a squeezed vacuum. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 13(5). 768–768. 15 indexed citations

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Swain, S., et al.. (1996). Anomalous resonance fluorescence from an atom in a cavity with injected squeezed vacuum. Physical Review A. 53(4). 2846–2854. 31 indexed citations

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Zhou, Peng & S. Swain. (1996). The effects of squeezed field detunings on probe absorption spectra. Quantum and Semiclassical Optics Journal of the European Optical Society Part B. 8(4). 959–971. 7 indexed citations

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Swain, S. & Peng Zhou. (1995). Conditions for anomalous resonance fluorescence in a squeezed vacuum. Physical Review A. 52(6). 4845–4852. 26 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1994). Cooperative Effects in Optics. Journal of Modern Optics. 41(3). 657–657. 66 indexed citations

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Smart, Scott E. & S. Swain. (1994). Three-level Atom in a Squeezed Vacuum II. Journal of Modern Optics. 41(6). 1055–1077. 16 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Tom & S. Swain. (1987). Dressed-atom approach to strong-field double-resonance fluorescence with laser phase fluctuations. Physical review. A, General physics. 36(4). 1747–1758. 6 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1984). Concepts of quantum optics. Endeavour. 8(3). 150–150. 2 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1984). Concepts of Quantum Optics. Infrared Physics. 24(4). 424–424. 26 indexed citations

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Swain, S., et al.. (1982). Time-dependent aspects of the Autler-Townes effect in a four-level system. Physical review. A, General physics. 25(6). 3187–3194. 15 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1981). Master equation derivation of quantum regression theorem. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 14(10). 2577–2580. 45 indexed citations

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Swain, S., et al.. (1981). Comparison between the projection operator and continued fraction approaches to perturbation theory. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 14(12). 3169–3179. 5 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1980). Generalised multiphoton rate equations. Journal of Physics B Atomic and Molecular Physics. 13(12). 2375–2396. 26 indexed citations

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Swain, S., et al.. (1978). Effect of linewidth on the phaseshifts in the scattering of weakly amplitude modulated light. Optics Communications. 25(1). 113–115. 7 indexed citations

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Swain, S.. (1973). A continued fraction solution to the problem of a single atom interacting with a single radiation mode in the electric dipole approximation. Journal of Physics A Mathematical Nuclear and General. 6(2). 192–204. 51 indexed citations

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