Tilman Pfau

19.6k total citations · 8 hit papers
242 papers, 14.1k citations indexed

About

Tilman Pfau is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Tilman Pfau has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 14.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 48 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 34 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Tilman Pfau's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (173 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (70 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (64 papers). Tilman Pfau is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (173 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (70 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (64 papers). Tilman Pfau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Poland. Tilman Pfau's co-authors include Axel Griesmaier, Matthias Wenzel, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, J. Stühler, Robert Löw, R. Löw, M. Schmitt, J. Mlynek, S. Hensler and S. Giovanazzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Tilman Pfau

235 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories sort by overperformance

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.

Plasmonic analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency at the Drude damping limit

2009 1.5k citations Tilman Pfau et al. profile →
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Chromium

2005 830 citations Axel Griesmaier, S. Hensler et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Microwave electrometry with Rydberg atoms in a vapour cell using bright atomic resonances

2012 539 citations Harald Kübler, Robert Löw et al. profile →
Observation of Quantum Droplets in a Strongly Dipolar Bose Gas

2016 449 citations Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Matthias Wenzel et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Observing the Rosensweig instability of a quantum ferrofluid

2016 410 citations Matthias Wenzel, Igor Ferrier-Barbut et al. profile →
Self-bound droplets of a dilute magnetic quantum liquid

2016 379 citations Matthias Wenzel, Fabian Böttcher et al. profile →
Transient Supersolid Properties in an Array of Dipolar Quantum Droplets

2019 300 citations Fabian Böttcher, Jan-Niklas Schmidt et al. profile →
Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases

2022 224 citations Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Tilman Pfau et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author						Papers	Cites
Tilman Pfau	12.7k	1.8k	1.6k	1.5k	1.2k	242	14.1k
Michael Fleischhauer	16.4k 1.3×	6.0k 3.3×	653 0.4×	2.3k 1.5×	2.3k 1.9×	216	17.8k
Iacopo Carusotto	14.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.4×	793 0.5×	2.0k 1.3×	1.8k 1.5×	264	15.1k
A. V. Ustinov	6.3k 0.5×	1.8k 1.0×	3.8k 2.3×	480 0.3×	1.5k 1.2×	349	8.4k
Enrico Santamato	4.8k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	293 0.2×	1.7k 1.1×	934 0.8×	169	5.9k
M. B. Ketchen	4.8k 0.4×	1.5k 0.8×	3.7k 2.3×	628 0.4×	2.4k 2.0×	150	7.8k
I. Sagnes	12.3k 1.0×	3.0k 1.6×	469 0.3×	3.2k 2.1×	7.8k 6.5×	549	15.3k
A. Douglas Stone	7.3k 0.6×	733 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	458 0.3×	3.1k 2.6×	94	8.5k
Konstantin Y. Bliokh	11.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	200 0.1×	4.5k 2.9×	2.2k 1.8×	126	12.5k
Hannes Pichler	6.7k 0.5×	3.5k 1.9×	989 0.6×	348 0.2×	1.0k 0.8×	124	8.2k
M. Siegel	2.6k 0.2×	707 0.4×	2.4k 1.4×	619 0.4×	1.7k 1.4×	259	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Tilman Pfau

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Tilman Pfau's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Tilman Pfau with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Tilman Pfau more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Tilman Pfau

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Tilman Pfau. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Tilman Pfau. The network helps show where Tilman Pfau may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tilman Pfau

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tilman Pfau. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tilman Pfau based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Tilman Pfau. Tilman Pfau is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Pfau, Tilman, et al.. (2024). Analyzing the collective emission of a Rydberg-blockaded single-photon source based on an ensemble of thermal atoms. Physical review. A. 109(1).

Simula, Tapio, Niels Kjærgaard, & Tilman Pfau. (2024). Topological transport of a classical droplet in a lattice of time. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(4). 1 indexed citations

Engel, Felix B., et al.. (2024). In situ observation of chemistry in Rydberg molecules within a Bose-Einstein-condensate. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 2 indexed citations

Fruehauf, Norbert, Jens Anders, Robert Löw, et al.. (2024). High-Resolution Continuous-Wave Laser Spectroscopy of Long-Lived Rydberg States in NO. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 15(40). 10171–10180.

Fruehauf, Norbert, et al.. (2024). Collisional shift and broadening of Rydberg states in nitric oxide at room temperature. Physical review. A. 109(3). 2 indexed citations

Hertkorn, Jens, et al.. (2024). Decoupled sound and amplitude modes in trapped dipolar supersolids. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 6 indexed citations

Berngruber, Moritz, et al.. (2024). In Situ Observation of Nonpolar to Strongly Polar Atom-Ion Collision Dynamics. Physical Review Letters. 133(8). 83001–83001. 1 indexed citations

Traub, Martin, Hans-Dieter Hoffmann, Florian Meinert, et al.. (2024). Optical setup for a two-dimensional tweezer array with independently adjustable columns for neutral atom quantum computing. Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft). 45–45. 2 indexed citations

Pfau, Tilman, et al.. (2023). Ultraviolet photodetectors and readout based on a‐IGZO semiconductor technology. Journal of the Society for Information Display. 31(5). 363–372. 2 indexed citations

10.

Jaschke, Daniel, et al.. (2022). Error budgeting for a controlled-phase gate with strontium-88 Rydberg atoms. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 62 indexed citations

11.

Löw, Robert, et al.. (2022). Doppler-free high-resolution continuous-wave optical UV spectroscopy on the A2Σ+←X2Π3/2 transition in nitric oxide. Physical review. A. 106(6). 2 indexed citations

12.

Böttcher, Fabian, Matthias Wenzel, Jan-Niklas Schmidt, et al.. (2019). Dilute dipolar quantum droplets beyond the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 90 indexed citations

13.

Böttcher, Fabian, Matthias Wenzel, Jan-Niklas Schmidt, et al.. (2019). Quantum correlations in dilute dipolar quantum droplets beyond the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

14.

Krupp, Alexander, Anita Gaj, Jonathan Balewski, et al.. (2014). Alignment of D-state Rydberg molecules. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 3 indexed citations

15.

Schmidt‐Kaler, F., Tilman Pfau, Peter Schmelcher, & Wolfgang P. Schleich. (2010). Focus on Atom Optics and its Applications. New Journal of Physics. 12(6). 65014–65014. 12 indexed citations

16.

Noé, R., et al.. (2009). Real-time implementation of digital coherent detection. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 1–4. 4 indexed citations

17.

Lahaye, Thierry, Tobias Koch, M. Fattori, et al.. (2007). Demagnetization cooling of a Chromium cold gas. 1–1.

18.

Inouye, S., Tilman Pfau, Subhadeep Gupta, et al.. (2000). Observation of phase coherent amplification of atomic matter waves. APS. 14. 228–229. 1 indexed citations

19.

Pfau, Tilman. (1999). Ultrakalte Atome an Oberflächen: Dicht über einer Oberfläche lassen sich Atome als zweidimensionales Gas speichern. Physikalische Blätter. 55(10). 39–42. 1 indexed citations

20.

Pfau, Tilman, Christian Kurtsiefer, & J. Mlynek. (1997). Experimental Determination Of The Motional Wigner Function Of A Helium Atom. Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact