Simon L. Cornish

6.8k total citations · 5 hit papers
92 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Simon L. Cornish is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon L. Cornish has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Simon L. Cornish's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (87 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (36 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (33 papers). Simon L. Cornish is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (87 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (36 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (33 papers). Simon L. Cornish collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Spain. Simon L. Cornish's co-authors include Carl Wieman, Jacob Roberts, N. R. Claussen, Eric Cornell, Jeremy M. Hutson, Philip D. Gregory, S. T. Thompson, Elizabeth A. Donley, Daniel McCarron and S. A. Gardiner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Simon L. Cornish

92 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Stable85RbBose-Einstein Condensates with Widely Tunable Interactions

2000 685 citations Simon L. Cornish, N. R. Claussen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose–Einstein condensates

2001 593 citations Elizabeth A. Donley, N. R. Claussen et al. Nature profile →
Creation of UltracoldRb87Cs133Molecules in the Rovibrational Ground State

2014 345 citations Philip D. Gregory, C. Ruth Le Sueur et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Controlled Collapse of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

2001 328 citations Jacob Roberts, N. R. Claussen et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Quantum computation and quantum simulation with ultracold molecules

2024 49 citations Simon L. Cornish, M. R. Tarbutt et al. Nature Physics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Simon L. Cornish	4.7k	661	595	461	336	92	4.9k
M.‐O. Mewes	5.6k 1.2×	731 1.1×	618 1.0×	396 0.9×	471 1.4×	13	5.8k
Kendall B. Davis	4.5k 0.9×	570 0.9×	537 0.9×	298 0.6×	414 1.2×	8	4.6k
N. J. van Druten	6.2k 1.3×	719 1.1×	716 1.2×	398 0.9×	551 1.6×	55	6.4k
C. G. Townsend	4.3k 0.9×	646 1.0×	718 1.2×	283 0.6×	330 1.0×	10	4.5k
M. Fattori	4.3k 0.9×	410 0.6×	765 1.3×	195 0.4×	723 2.2×	46	4.6k
H.‐J. Miesner	6.0k 1.3×	713 1.1×	752 1.3×	334 0.7×	788 2.3×	23	6.1k
Subhadeep Gupta	5.1k 1.1×	725 1.1×	362 0.6×	266 0.6×	636 1.9×	65	5.2k
Johannes Hecker Denschlag	7.8k 1.7×	785 1.2×	791 1.3×	731 1.6×	1.2k 3.5×	73	8.0k
G. Roati	5.6k 1.2×	455 0.7×	799 1.3×	252 0.5×	1.2k 3.5×	67	5.8k
G. V. Shlyapnikov	4.3k 0.9×	319 0.5×	819 1.4×	280 0.6×	524 1.6×	43	4.4k

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Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Individual Assembly of Two-Species Rydberg Molecules Using Optical Tweezers. Physical Review Letters. 134(13). 133401–133401. 1 indexed citations

Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2025). Long-lived entanglement of molecules in magic-wavelength optical tweezers. Nature. 637(8047). 827–832. 11 indexed citations

Majumder, Prasenjit, et al.. (2024). Modulation transfer spectroscopy of the D1 transition of potassium: theory and experiment. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 57(7). 75401–75401. 4 indexed citations

Gregory, Philip D., et al.. (2024). Enhanced Quantum State Transfer via Feedforward Cancellation of Optical Phase Noise. Physical Review Letters. 133(25). 253202–253202. 5 indexed citations

Gregory, Philip D., et al.. (2024). Long-distance optical-conveyor-belt transport of ultracold Cs133 and Rb87 atoms. Physical review. A. 109(2). 3 indexed citations

Gregory, Philip D., et al.. (2024). Second-scale rotational coherence and dipolar interactions in a gas of ultracold polar molecules. Nature Physics. 20(3). 415–421. 22 indexed citations

Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Ultralong-range Cs-RbCs Rydberg molecules: Nonadiabaticity of dipole moments. Physical review. A. 110(1). 2 indexed citations

Cornish, Simon L., M. R. Tarbutt, & Kaden R. A. Hazzard. (2024). Quantum computation and quantum simulation with ultracold molecules. Nature Physics. 20(5). 730–740. 49 indexed citations breakdown →

Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Enhanced Quantum Control of Individual Ultracold Molecules Using Optical Tweezer Arrays. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 16 indexed citations

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Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Observation of Rydberg Blockade Due to the Charge-Dipole Interaction between an Atom and a Polar Molecule. Physical Review Letters. 131(1). 20 indexed citations

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Bromley, Sarah, et al.. (2023). A motorized rotation mount for the switching of an optical beam path in under 20 ms using polarization control. Review of Scientific Instruments. 94(6). 2 indexed citations

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Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Formation of Ultracold Molecules by Merging Optical Tweezers. Physical Review Letters. 130(22). 223401–223401. 30 indexed citations

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Gregory, Philip D., et al.. (2021). Molecule-molecule and atom-molecule collisions with ultracold RbCs molecules. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 25 indexed citations

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Gregory, Philip D., Jacob A. Blackmore, Sarah Bromley, Jeremy M. Hutson, & Simon L. Cornish. (2021). Robust storage qubits in ultracold polar molecules. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 58 indexed citations

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Frye, Matthew D., Rahul Sawant, Jonathan A. Jones, et al.. (2020). Robust entangling gate for polar molecules using magnetic and microwave fields. Physical review. A. 101(6). 54 indexed citations

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Gregory, Philip D., Jacob A. Blackmore, Sarah Bromley, & Simon L. Cornish. (2020). Loss of Ultracold Rb87Cs133 Molecules via Optical Excitation of Long-Lived Two-Body Collision Complexes. Physical Review Letters. 124(16). 163402–163402. 83 indexed citations

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Helm, J. L., et al.. (2018). Spin-Orbit-Coupled Interferometry with Ring-Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates. Physical Review Letters. 120(6). 63201–63201. 17 indexed citations

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Guttridge, Alexander, et al.. (2017). Interspecies thermalization in an ultracold mixture of Cs and Yb in an optical trap. Physical review. A. 96(1). 18 indexed citations

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Billam, T. P., Caroline L. Blackley, C. Ruth Le Sueur, et al.. (2013). Generating Mesoscopic Bell States via Collisions of Distinguishable Quantum Bright Solitons. Physical Review Letters. 111(10). 100406–100406. 43 indexed citations

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Donley, Elizabeth A., N. R. Claussen, Simon L. Cornish, et al.. (2001). Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose–Einstein condensates. Nature. 412(6844). 295–299. 593 indexed citations breakdown →

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