Thomas Bourdel

2.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Thomas Bourdel is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Bourdel has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Bourdel's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (11 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (5 papers). Thomas Bourdel is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (18 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (11 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (5 papers). Thomas Bourdel collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Netherlands. Thomas Bourdel's co-authors include C. Salomon, J. Cubizolles, Lev Khaykovich, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, Florian Schreck, Kristan L. Corwin, G. Ferrari, Tobias Donner, Tilman Esslinger and Michael Köhl and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Bourdel

17 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2004 2007 200 400 600
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. Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea
    2001 654 citations Florian Schreck, Lev Khaykovich et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Experimental Study of the BEC-BCS Crossover Region in Lithium 6
    2004 598 citations Thomas Bourdel, Lev Khaykovich et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Cavity QED with a Bose–Einstein condensate
    2007 411 citations Ferdinand Brennecke, Tobias Donner et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Bourdel France 12 2.1k 407 382 133 110 18 2.2k
Igor Ferrier-Barbut France 22 2.7k 1.3× 486 1.2× 301 0.8× 102 0.8× 213 1.9× 36 2.8k
Alessandro Zenesini Italy 21 2.1k 1.0× 173 0.4× 360 0.9× 117 0.9× 336 3.1× 33 2.1k
Kai Dieckmann Singapore 18 1.9k 0.9× 370 0.9× 216 0.6× 77 0.6× 57 0.5× 29 1.9k
K. V. Kheruntsyan Australia 31 3.0k 1.4× 242 0.6× 851 2.2× 114 0.9× 368 3.3× 93 3.1k
Nir Navon United Kingdom 20 2.2k 1.0× 647 1.6× 157 0.4× 61 0.5× 154 1.4× 38 2.3k
B. Laburthe-Tolra France 27 2.5k 1.2× 387 1.0× 335 0.9× 212 1.6× 150 1.4× 58 2.6k
S. Whitlock Germany 22 1.5k 0.7× 170 0.4× 486 1.3× 92 0.7× 140 1.3× 49 1.5k
Karina Jiménez-García United States 15 3.8k 1.8× 861 2.1× 388 1.0× 61 0.5× 210 1.9× 19 3.9k
Lauriane Chomaz Austria 18 2.1k 1.0× 519 1.3× 144 0.4× 81 0.6× 161 1.5× 27 2.2k
B. Paredes Germany 12 1.7k 0.8× 393 1.0× 250 0.7× 43 0.3× 126 1.1× 21 1.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Bourdel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Bourdel

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Bourdel, Thomas, et al.. (2025). A simple magnetic field stabilization technique for atomic Bose–Einstein condensate experiments. Review of Scientific Instruments. 96(6). 1 indexed citations
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Bourdel, Thomas, et al.. (2025). Three-body interactions in Rabi-coupled Bose gases: A perturbative approach. Physical review. A. 111(5).
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Bourdel, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Ultracold-atom quantum tunneling through single and double optical barriers. Physical review. A. 110(4). 1 indexed citations
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Bourdel, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Tunable Three-Body Interactions in Driven Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates. Physical Review Letters. 128(8). 83401–83401. 19 indexed citations
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Bourdel, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Beyond-mean-field crossover from one dimension to three dimensions in quantum droplets of binary mixtures. Physical review. A. 103(3). 19 indexed citations
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Lepoutre, S., et al.. (2019). Quantitative analysis of losses close to a d-wave open-channel Feshbach resonance in K39. Physical review. A. 99(2). 6 indexed citations
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Berthet, Gwenaël, et al.. (2017). Nonlinear scattering of atomic bright solitons in disorder. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 117(1). 10007–10007. 11 indexed citations
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Lepoutre, S., et al.. (2016). Production of strongly bound K39 bright solitons. Physical review. A. 94(5). 43 indexed citations
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Salomon, Guillaume, et al.. (2014). All-optical cooling ofK39to Bose-Einstein condensation. Physical Review A. 90(3). 23 indexed citations
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Plisson, Thomas, Thomas Bourdel, & Cord A. Müller. (2013). Momentum isotropisation in random potentials. The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 217(1). 79–84. 10 indexed citations
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Pezzè, Luca, Martin Robert-De-Saint-Vincent, Thomas Bourdel, et al.. (2011). Regimes of classical transport of cold gases in a two-dimensional anisotropic disorder. New Journal of Physics. 13(9). 95015–95015. 24 indexed citations
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Robert-De-Saint-Vincent, Martin, Jean-Philippe Brantut, Baptiste Allard, et al.. (2010). Anisotropic 2D Diffusive Expansion of Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Potential. Physical Review Letters. 104(22). 220602–220602. 46 indexed citations
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Brennecke, Ferdinand, Tobias Donner, Stephan Ritter, et al.. (2007). Cavity QED with a Bose–Einstein condensate. Nature. 450(7167). 268–271. 411 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bourdel, Thomas, Tobias Donner, Stephan Ritter, et al.. (2006). Cavity QED detection of interfering matter waves. Physical Review A. 73(4). 22 indexed citations
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Bourdel, Thomas, Lev Khaykovich, J. Cubizolles, et al.. (2004). Experimental Study of the BEC-BCS Crossover Region in Lithium 6. Physical Review Letters. 93(5). 50401–50401. 598 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cubizolles, J., Thomas Bourdel, S. J. J. M. F. Kokkelmans, G. V. Shlyapnikov, & C. Salomon. (2003). Production of Long-Lived UltracoldLi2Molecules from a Fermi Gas. Physical Review Letters. 91(24). 240401–240401. 272 indexed citations
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Schreck, Florian, Lev Khaykovich, Kristan L. Corwin, et al.. (2001). Quasipure Bose-Einstein Condensate Immersed in a Fermi Sea. Physical Review Letters. 87(8). 80403–80403. 654 indexed citations breakdown →

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