Varun Vaidya

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Varun Vaidya is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Varun Vaidya has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Varun Vaidya's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (15 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (9 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (9 papers). Varun Vaidya is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (15 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (9 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (9 papers). Varun Vaidya collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Varun Vaidya's co-authors include Yudan Guo, Benjamin Lev, Jonathan Keeling, Ronen M. Kroeze, Alicia J. Kollár, Matthew Baumgart, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Z. Vernon and Matthew J. Collins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Varun Vaidya

29 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor
    2022 603 citations Lars S. Madsen, Fabian Laudenbach et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Varun Vaidya
M. Spiropulu United States
Jordan Cotler United States
Fernando Pastawski Germany
M. X. Luo China
Terri M. Yu United States
Federico M. Spedalieri United States
Alessio Celi Spain
Titus Morris United States
T. Lanting United States
Walter Vinci United States
M. Spiropulu United States
Varun Vaidya
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Varun Vaidya

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baumgart, Matthew, Nicholas L. Rodd, Tracy R. Slatyer, & Varun Vaidya. (2024). The quintuplet annihilation spectrum. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(1). 8 indexed citations
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Weeren, R. J. van, R. Timmerman, Varun Vaidya, et al.. (2024). LOFAR high-band antenna observations of the Perseus cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A12–A12. 13 indexed citations
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Stewart, I. W. & Varun Vaidya. (2024). Power counting to saturation. Physical review. D. 110(1). 3 indexed citations
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Asadi, Pouya & Varun Vaidya. (2023). Quantum entanglement and the thermal hadron. Physical review. D. 107(5). 5 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun. (2022). Transverse momentum broadening of a jet in quark-gluon plasma: an open quantum system EFT. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 14 indexed citations
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Madsen, Lars S., Fabian Laudenbach, Fabien Rortais, et al.. (2022). Quantum computational advantage with a programmable photonic processor. Nature. 606(7912). 75–81. 603 indexed citations breakdown →
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Menotti, M., Kun Tan, Varun Vaidya, et al.. (2020). Single-mode quadrature squeezing using dual-pump four-wave mixing in an integrated nanophotonic device. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Guo, Yudan, Ronen M. Kroeze, Varun Vaidya, Jonathan Keeling, & Benjamin Lev. (2019). Sign-Changing Photon-Mediated Atom Interactions in Multimode Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics. Physical Review Letters. 122(19). 193601–193601. 55 indexed citations
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Baumgart, Matthew, et al.. (2019). Breakdown of the naive parton model in super-weak scale collisions. Physical review. D. 100(9). 1 indexed citations
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Kroeze, Ronen M., Yudan Guo, Varun Vaidya, Jonathan Keeling, & Benjamin Lev. (2018). Spinor Self-Ordering of a Quantum Gas in a Cavity. Physical Review Letters. 121(16). 163601–163601. 110 indexed citations
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Rinchiuso, Lucia, Nicholas L. Rodd, Ian Moult, et al.. (2018). Hunting for Heavy Winos in the Galactic Center. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations
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Rinchiuso, Lucia, Nicholas L. Rodd, Ian Moult, et al.. (2018). Hunting for heavy winos in the Galactic Center. Physical review. D. 98(12). 20 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun, Yudan Guo, Ronen M. Kroeze, et al.. (2018). Tunable-Range, Photon-Mediated Atomic Interactions in Multimode Cavity QED. Physical Review X. 8(1). 164 indexed citations
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Baumgart, Matthew, Timothy Cohen, Ian Moult, et al.. (2018). Resummed photon spectra for WIMP annihilation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(3). 31 indexed citations
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Kollár, Alicia J., Alexander Papageorge, Varun Vaidya, et al.. (2017). Supermode-density-wave-polariton condensation with a Bose–Einstein condensate in a multimode cavity. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14386–14386. 76 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun, Matthew Baumgart, & Ira Z. Rothstein. (2016). On the annihilation rate of WIMPs. 125–125.
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Baumgart, Matthew, Ira Z. Rothstein, & Varun Vaidya. (2015). Calculating the Annihilation Rate of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles. Physical Review Letters. 114(21). 211301–211301. 42 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun, et al.. (2015). Degenerate Bose-Fermi mixtures of rubidium and ytterbium. Physical Review A. 92(4). 39 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun. (2014). Casimir torque on a cylindrical gear. Physical Review A. 90(2). 5 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Varun, et al.. (2012). Precision Measurement of Transition Matrix Elements via Light Shift Cancellation. Physical Review Letters. 109(24). 243003–243003. 72 indexed citations

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