Thierry Lahaye

6.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Thierry Lahaye is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Radiation. According to data from OpenAlex, Thierry Lahaye has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 23 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Radiation. Recurrent topics in Thierry Lahaye's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (45 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (22 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (17 papers). Thierry Lahaye is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (45 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (22 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (17 papers). Thierry Lahaye collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and United States. Thierry Lahaye's co-authors include Antoine Browaeys, Daniel Barredo, Sylvain de Léséleuc, Henning Labuhn, Sylvain Ravets, Vincent Lienhard, Tilman Pfau, Bernd Fröhlich, Axel Griesmaier and Tobias Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Thierry Lahaye

68 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

An atom-by-atom assembler of defect-free arbitrary two-di... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2016 2023 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. An atom-by-atom assembler of defect-free arbitrary two-dimensional atomic arrays
    2016 560 citations Daniel Barredo, Sylvain de Léséleuc et al. Science profile →
  2. Tunable two-dimensional arrays of single Rydberg atoms for realizing quantum Ising models
    2016 507 citations Daniel Barredo, Sylvain de Léséleuc et al. profile →
  3. Continuous symmetry breaking in a two-dimensional Rydberg array
    2023 108 citations Cheng Chen, Guillaume Bornet 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
Thierry Lahaye France 29 3.8k 1.5k 526 358 141 77 4.4k
Amy Peng United States 17 1.8k 0.5× 664 0.5× 344 0.7× 142 0.4× 80 0.6× 28 2.5k
You‐Quan Li China 23 1.6k 0.4× 571 0.4× 675 1.3× 237 0.7× 40 0.3× 139 2.6k
Adam M. Kaufman United States 26 3.0k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 350 0.7× 509 1.4× 65 0.5× 53 3.7k
T. C. Killian United States 40 4.4k 1.1× 288 0.2× 415 0.8× 245 0.7× 644 4.6× 113 5.7k
Henrik Johannesson Sweden 33 1.7k 0.4× 334 0.2× 854 1.6× 267 0.7× 16 0.1× 106 3.5k
Victor M. Pérez-Garcı́a Spain 42 3.8k 1.0× 188 0.1× 228 0.4× 2.4k 6.7× 137 1.0× 186 6.2k
H. Wang China 37 5.5k 1.4× 4.0k 2.8× 362 0.7× 362 1.0× 33 0.2× 75 6.4k
Haitan Xu United States 16 1.5k 0.4× 480 0.3× 70 0.1× 452 1.3× 20 0.1× 44 2.1k
D. Schuh Germany 39 4.1k 1.1× 459 0.3× 1.1k 2.2× 77 0.2× 88 0.6× 207 5.1k
Mingsheng Zhan China 31 2.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.8× 30 0.1× 228 0.6× 115 0.8× 231 3.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thierry Lahaye

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bornet, Guillaume, et al.. (2025). Probing spin-motion coupling of two Rydberg atoms by a Stern-Gerlach-like experiment. Physical review. A. 112(5).
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Bornet, Guillaume, Cheng Chen, Romain Martin, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking direct and indirect dipolar spin-exchange interactions between two Rydberg atoms. Physical review. A. 111(6). 2 indexed citations
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Chen, Cheng, Guillaume Bornet, Marcus Bintz, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopy of elementary excitations from quench dynamics in a dipolar XY Rydberg simulator. Science. 389(6759). 483–487. 4 indexed citations
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Prior, Javier, Guillaume Bornet, Cheng Chen, et al.. (2025). Spin-1 Haldane Phase in a Chain of Rydberg Atoms. PRX Quantum. 6(2). 2 indexed citations
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Schmitt, Markus, Álex Rodríguez, H. J. Williams, et al.. (2024). Wave-Function Network Description and Kolmogorov Complexity of Quantum Many-Body Systems. Physical Review X. 14(2). 5 indexed citations
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Bloch, Étienne, Richard Hostein, Adrien Signoles, et al.. (2024). Rearrangement of individual atoms in a 2000-site optical-tweezer array at cryogenic temperatures. Physical Review Applied. 22(2). 13 indexed citations
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Elben, Andreas, et al.. (2023). A randomized measurement toolbox for an interacting Rydberg-atom quantum simulator. New Journal of Physics. 25(10). 103006–103006. 15 indexed citations
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Scholl, Pascal, H. J. Williams, Guillaume Bornet, et al.. (2022). Microwave Engineering of Programmable XXZ Hamiltonians in Arrays of Rydberg Atoms. PRX Quantum. 3(2). 103 indexed citations
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Bloch, Étienne, Davide Dreon, Adrien Signoles, et al.. (2022). In situ equalization of single-atom loading in large-scale optical tweezer arrays. Physical review. A. 106(2). 42 indexed citations
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Barredo, Daniel, Vincent Lienhard, Pascal Scholl, et al.. (2020). Three-Dimensional Trapping of Individual Rydberg Atoms in Ponderomotive Bottle Beam Traps. Physical Review Letters. 124(2). 23201–23201. 94 indexed citations
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Lahaye, Thierry, Bernd Fröhlich, Tobias Koch, et al.. (2008). d-Wave Collapse and Explosion of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate. Physical Review Letters. 101(8). 80401–80401. 259 indexed citations
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Lahaye, Thierry, Tobias Koch, M. Fattori, et al.. (2007). Demagnetization cooling of a Chromium cold gas. 1–1.
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Reinaudi, G., et al.. (2007). Strong saturation absorption imaging of dense clouds of ultracold atoms. Optics Letters. 32(21). 3143–3143. 118 indexed citations
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Lahaye, Thierry. (2005). Evaporative cooling of a guided rubidium atomic beam (9 pages). Physical Review A. 72(3). 33411. 1 indexed citations
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Guéry-Odelin, David & Thierry Lahaye. (2004). Dynamics of a trapped ultracold two-dimensional atomic gas. Comptes Rendus Physique. 5(1). 55–63. 2 indexed citations
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Lahaye, Thierry, et al.. (2001). An Active Personal Neutron Dosemeter Based on Microdosimetric Principles: CIME. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 96(1). 265–268. 3 indexed citations
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Stevenaert, Achille, et al.. (1988). Les facio-craniostenoses. Acta Chirurgica Belgica. 88. 1 indexed citations
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Degiovanni, Gérard, Thierry Lahaye, Michel Hérin, Philippe Hainaut, & Thierry Boon. (1988). Antigenic heterogeneity of a human melanoma tumor detected by autologous CTL clones. European Journal of Immunology. 18(5). 671–676. 54 indexed citations
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Hoorn, Frans A. van der, et al.. (1985). Characterization of gP85gag as an antigen recognized by Moloney leukemia virus-specific cytolytic T cell clones that function in vivo.. The Journal of Experimental Medicine. 162(1). 128–144. 22 indexed citations
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Fissette, J, et al.. (1982). La replantation de 71 doigts totalement amputes.. Acta Chirurgica Belgica. 82(3). 1 indexed citations

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