Thomas Gerrits

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
107 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Gerrits is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Gerrits has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 64 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 42 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Thomas Gerrits's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (61 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (36 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (27 papers). Thomas Gerrits is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (61 papers), Photonic and Optical Devices (36 papers) and Mechanical and Optical Resonators (27 papers). Thomas Gerrits collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Thomas Gerrits's co-authors include Sae Woo Nam, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Varun B. Verma, Brice Calkins, Matthew D. Shaw, Francesco Marsili, Burm Baek, Igor Vayshenker and J. A. Stern and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Gerrits

97 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 2022 2023 250 500 750
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. Detecting single infrared photons with 93% system efficiency
    2013 810 citations Varun B. Verma, Adriana E. Lita et al. profile →
  2. Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor
    2022 603 citations Jacob F. F. Bulmer, Adriana E. Lita et al. Nature profile →
  3. Applications of single photons to quantum communication and computing
    2023 106 citations Thomas Gerrits et al. profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas Gerrits United States 29 2.9k 2.8k 1.2k 444 257 107 4.1k
Adriana E. Lita United States 31 3.2k 1.1× 3.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.3× 674 1.5× 339 1.3× 87 4.9k
Hiroki Takesue Japan 39 3.3k 1.1× 3.8k 1.3× 2.6k 2.1× 398 0.9× 218 0.8× 150 5.5k
Jingyun Fan United States 31 4.1k 1.4× 2.1k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 273 0.6× 365 1.4× 114 4.9k
Lixing You China 40 4.7k 1.6× 4.6k 1.6× 1.9k 1.5× 749 1.7× 590 2.3× 310 6.9k
Andrew J. Kerman United States 32 3.7k 1.2× 1.5k 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 441 1.0× 330 1.3× 65 4.6k
Alan L. Migdall United States 31 4.5k 1.5× 2.6k 0.9× 1.7k 1.4× 621 1.4× 489 1.9× 168 5.8k
Shigehito Miki Japan 33 1.9k 0.7× 1.6k 0.6× 1.3k 1.1× 517 1.2× 322 1.3× 182 3.2k
Hans‐A. Bachor Australia 33 4.4k 1.5× 2.5k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 94 0.2× 314 1.2× 151 5.3k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Gerrits

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gerrits, Thomas, Lijun Ma, Marco López, et al.. (2024). Disseminable single-photon source for quantum radiometry. Applied Physics Letters. 125(26). 1 indexed citations
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Weinhold, Till J., M. P. Almeida, Joshua Combes, et al.. (2024). Precisely determining photon-number in real time. Quantum. 8. 1355–1355. 8 indexed citations
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Rahmouni, Anouar, Ruixuan Wang, Jingwei Li, et al.. (2024). Entangled photon pair generation in an integrated SiC platform. Light Science & Applications. 13(1). 110–110. 22 indexed citations
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Albert, Victor V., et al.. (2024). Precision Bounds on Continuous-Variable State Tomography Using Classical Shadows. PRX Quantum. 5(1). 8 indexed citations
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Morris, M., Gerald Baumgartner, Anouar Rahmouni, et al.. (2023). Sub-200 ps Quantum Network Node Synchronization over a 128 km Link White Rabbit Architecture. FF3A.3–FF3A.3. 1 indexed citations
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Lum, Daniel J., Michael D. Mazurek, Alexander Mikhaylov, et al.. (2021). Witnessing the survival of time-energy entanglement through biological tissue and scattering media. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Thekkadath, Guillaume, Bryn A. Bell, A. Eckstein, et al.. (2020). Quantum-enhanced interferometry with large heralded photon-number states. npj Quantum Information. 6(1). 35 indexed citations
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Sperling, Jan, David S. Phillips, Jacob F. F. Bulmer, et al.. (2020). Detector-Agnostic Phase-Space Distributions. Physical Review Letters. 124(1). 13605–13605. 4 indexed citations
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Tiedau, Johannes, Tim J. Bartley, Georg Harder, et al.. (2019). Scalability of parametric down-conversion for generating higher-order Fock states. Physical review. A. 100(4). 31 indexed citations
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Clements, William R., Jelmer J. Renema, Andreas Eckstein, et al.. (2018). Approximating vibronic spectroscopy with imperfect quantum optics. BURJC Digital (King Juan Carlos University). 26 indexed citations
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Montaut, Nicola, Omar S. Magaña‐Loaiza, Tim J. Bartley, et al.. (2018). Compressive characterization of telecom photon pairs in the spatial and spectral degrees of freedom. Optica. 5(11). 1418–1418. 7 indexed citations
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Lum, Daniel J., John C. Howell, Michael S. Allman, et al.. (2016). Quantum enigma machine: Experimentally demonstrating quantum data locking. Physical review. A. 94(2). 33 indexed citations
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Kuo, Paulina S., Thomas Gerrits, Varun B. Verma, et al.. (2016). Characterization of type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion in domain-engineered PPLN. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9762. 976211–976211. 5 indexed citations
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Jin, Rui‐Bo, Thomas Gerrits, Mikio Fujiwara, et al.. (2015). Spectrally resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between independent sources. arXiv (Cornell University). 39 indexed citations
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Gerrits, Thomas, Daniel J. Lum, Varun B. Verma, et al.. (2015). Progress toward a high-resolution single-photon camera based on superconducting single photon detector arrays and compressive sensing. STh3O.6–STh3O.6. 5 indexed citations
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Ramelow, Sven, Marissa Giustina, Simon Gröblacher, et al.. (2013). Highly efficient heralding of entangled single photons. Optics Express. 21(6). 6707–6707. 52 indexed citations
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Giustina, Marissa, Sven Ramelow, Bernhard Wittmann, et al.. (2013). Bell violation using entangled photons without the fair-sampling assumption. Nature. 497(7448). 227–230. 283 indexed citations
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Gerrits, Thomas, Scott Glancy, Tracy S. Clement, et al.. (2010). Generation of optical Schr\"odinger cat states by number-resolved photon subtraction from squeezed vacuum. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Stevens, Martin J., Robert H. Hadfield, Thomas Gerrits, et al.. (2009). Infrared wavelength-dependent optical characterization of NbN nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors. Journal of Modern Optics. 56(2-3). 358–363. 4 indexed citations
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Gerrits, Thomas, Pavol Krivošı́k, Michael L. Schneider, Carl E. Patton, & T. J. Silva. (2007). Direct Detection of Nonlinear Ferromagnetic Resonance in Thin Films by the Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect. Physical Review Letters. 98(20). 207602–207602. 46 indexed citations

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