Vasant Natarajan

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Vasant Natarajan is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Vasant Natarajan has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 74 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 10 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Vasant Natarajan's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (47 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (28 papers) and Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (25 papers). Vasant Natarajan is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (47 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (28 papers) and Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (25 papers). Vasant Natarajan collaborates with scholars based in India, United States and Austria. Vasant Natarajan's co-authors include Kristian Helmerson, Mikkel F. Andersen, Changhyun Ryu, Pierre Cladé, William D. Phillips, Ayan Banerjee, Alipasha Vaziri, Dipankar Das, Umakant D. Rapol and David E. Pritchard and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Vasant Natarajan

91 papers receiving 2.0k 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. Quantized Rotation of Atoms from Photons with Orbital Angular Momentum
    2006 424 citations Mikkel F. Andersen, Changhyun Ryu et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Vasant Natarajan
M. G. Boshier United States
Jean‐Philippe Karr France
Yvan R. P. Sortais France
G. Birkl Germany
C. I. Westbrook France
Yeshpal Singh United Kingdom
Herman Batelaan United States
E. A. Hinds United Kingdom
G. Saathoff Germany
B. Jelenković Serbia
M. G. Boshier United States
Vasant Natarajan
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vasant Natarajan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vasant Natarajan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vasant Natarajan 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 Vasant Natarajan. Vasant Natarajan 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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Singh, Jagdev, et al.. (2024). Calibration of spectropolarimetry channel of visible emission line coronagraph onboard Aditya-L1. Experimental Astronomy. 58(2).
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2020). Hyperfine measurement of the 6P 1/2 state in 87 Rb using double resonance on blue and IR transition. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 53(9). 95001–95001. 9 indexed citations
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Ramdani, Ghania, et al.. (2019). Studying the rigidity of red blood cells induced by Plasmodium falciparum infection. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6336–6336. 11 indexed citations
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Bharti, Vineet, et al.. (2018). Study of EIT resonances in an anti-relaxation coated Rb vapor cell. Physics Letters A. 383(1). 91–96. 18 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2017). Diagnosis of malarial infection using change in properties of optically trapped red blood cells. Biomedical Journal. 40(2). 101–105. 10 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2017). Precise measurement of hyperfine structure in the 3S1/2 state of 7Li. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 13204–13204. 2 indexed citations
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Bharti, Vineet, Ajay D. Wasan, & Vasant Natarajan. (2016). Wavelength mismatch effect in electromagnetically induced absorption. Physics Letters A. 380(31-32). 2390–2394. 7 indexed citations
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Bharti, Vineet, et al.. (2016). Role of dressed-state interference in electromagnetically induced transparency. Physics Letters A. 380(48). 4100–4104. 19 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2016). Generation of a cold pulsed beam of Rb atoms by transfer from a 3D magneto-optic trap. Physics Letters A. 380(37). 2943–2946. 2 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2015). Magnetometry using Ramsey interferometry in a Yb atomic beam. Current Science. 109(3). 592–595.
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Natarajan, Vasant. (2014). Quantum Mechanics and Atomic Physics. Current Science. 107(12). 2053–2054.
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Pallavi, Rani, et al.. (2013). The bystander effect in optically trapped red blood cells due to Plasmodium falciparum infection. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 107(4). 220–223. 11 indexed citations
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Tatu, Utpal, et al.. (2010). Change in spectrum of Brownian fluctuations of optically trapped red blood cells due to malarial infection. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 15(3). 37003–37003. 9 indexed citations
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Natarajan, Vasant, et al.. (2009). Line narrowing of electromagnetically induced transparency in Rb with a longitudinal magnetic field. Physical Review A. 79(1). 29 indexed citations
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Pandey, Kanhaiya, et al.. (2008). Absolute frequency determination of the 5P_3/2-->7S_1/2 transition in ^87Rb. Optics Letters. 33(15). 1675–1675. 12 indexed citations
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Ryu, Changhyun, Mikkel F. Andersen, Pierre Cladé, et al.. (2007). Observation of Persistent Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Toroidal Trap. Physical Review Letters. 99(26). 260401–260401. 366 indexed citations
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Andersen, Mikkel F., Changhyun Ryu, Pierre Cladé, et al.. (2006). Quantized Rotation of Atoms from Photons with Orbital Angular Momentum. Physical Review Letters. 97(17). 170406–170406. 424 indexed citations breakdown →
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Banerjee, Ayan, et al.. (2004). Frequency locking of tunable diode lasers to a rubidium-stabilized ring-cavity resonator. Applied Optics. 43(12). 2528–2528. 8 indexed citations
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Banerjee, Ayan & Vasant Natarajan. (2003). Saturated-absorption spectroscopy: eliminating crossover resonances by use of copropagating beams. Optics Letters. 28(20). 1912–1912. 47 indexed citations
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Bappu, M. K. V., K. R. Sivaraman, A. K. Bhatnagar, & Vasant Natarajan. (1967). Monochromatic Polarization Measures of Comet Ikeya-Seki (1965f). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 136(1). 19–25. 4 indexed citations

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