Tim van Leent

792 total citations · 2 hit papers
6 papers, 459 citations indexed

About

Tim van Leent is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim van Leent has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 459 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Tim van Leent's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (3 papers). Tim van Leent is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (6 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (6 papers) and Quantum optics and atomic interactions (3 papers). Tim van Leent collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Singapore. Tim van Leent's co-authors include Harald Weinfurter, Wei Zhang, Wenjamin Rosenfeld, Robert Garthoff, Florian Fertig, Sebastian Eppelt, Kai Redeker, Matthias Bock, Christoph Becher and Tobias Bauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and npj Quantum Information.

In The Last Decade

Tim van Leent

6 papers receiving 439 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A device-independent quantum key distribution system for distant users

2022 156 citations Wei Zhang, Tim van Leent et al. Nature profile →
Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre

2022 142 citations Tim van Leent, Matthias Bock et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim van Leent Germany	5	387	365	68	15	10	6	459
Sebastian Eppelt Germany	4	256 0.7×	285 0.8×	43 0.6×	10 0.7×	4 0.4×	6	349
Florian Fertig Germany	3	259 0.7×	247 0.7×	41 0.6×	10 0.7×	4 0.4×	4	307
Pei Zeng China	8	437 1.1×	372 1.0×	44 0.6×	13 0.9×	8 0.8×	16	479
Jino Heo South Korea	15	461 1.2×	374 1.0×	45 0.7×	13 0.9×	2 0.2×	37	481
Thomas Brougham United Kingdom	10	288 0.7×	261 0.7×	59 0.9×	15 1.0×	14 1.4×	31	357
Yang-Fan Jiang China	9	300 0.8×	288 0.8×	43 0.6×	15 1.0×	20 2.0×	13	338
Misael Caloz Switzerland	5	487 1.3×	432 1.2×	125 1.8×	23 1.5×	4 0.4×	6	551
Tanjung Krisnanda Singapore	9	272 0.7×	231 0.6×	97 1.4×	12 0.8×	52 5.2×	22	390
Xuemei Gu China	14	311 0.8×	278 0.8×	67 1.0×	43 2.9×	24 2.4×	25	433
Jasminder S. Sidhu United Kingdom	9	283 0.7×	237 0.6×	63 0.9×	28 1.9×	6 0.6×	14	357

Countries citing papers authored by Tim van Leent

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim van Leent

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim van Leent

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tim van Leent. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tim van Leent 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 Tim van Leent. Tim van Leent is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Zhou, Yiru, Florian Fertig, Matthias Bock, et al.. (2024). Long-Lived Quantum Memory Enabling Atom-Photon Entanglement over 101 km of Telecom Fiber. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 8 indexed citations

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Zapatero, Víctor, Tim van Leent, Rotem Arnon-Friedman, et al.. (2023). Advances in device-independent quantum key distribution. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 73 indexed citations

3.

Leent, Tim van, Wei Zhang, Robert Garthoff, et al.. (2023). Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Using Entangled Atoms. 1–1. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wei, Tim van Leent, Kai Redeker, et al.. (2022). A device-independent quantum key distribution system for distant users. Nature. 607(7920). 687–691. 156 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leent, Tim van, Matthias Bock, Florian Fertig, et al.. (2022). Entangling single atoms over 33 km telecom fibre. Nature. 607(7917). 69–73. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

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Leent, Tim van, Matthias Bock, Robert Garthoff, et al.. (2020). Long-Distance Distribution of Atom-Photon Entanglement at Telecom Wavelength. Physical Review Letters. 124(1). 10510–10510. 79 indexed citations

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