Waseem Bakr

6.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
33 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Waseem Bakr is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Waseem Bakr has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 11 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 8 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Waseem Bakr's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (27 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (10 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (8 papers). Waseem Bakr is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (27 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (10 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (8 papers). Waseem Bakr collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Canada. Waseem Bakr's co-authors include Markus Greiner, Jonathon Gillen, Amy Peng, Simon Fölling, Jonathan Simon, M. Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Martin W. Zwierlein, Lawrence W. Cheuk and Ariel Sommer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Waseem Bakr

30 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice

2009 1.0k citations Waseem Bakr, Jonathon Gillen et al. Nature profile →
Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas

2012 718 citations Lawrence W. Cheuk, Ariel Sommer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical lattice

2011 641 citations Jonathan Simon, Waseem Bakr et al. Nature profile →
Probing the Superfluid–to–Mott Insulator Transition at the Single-Atom Level

2010 558 citations Waseem Bakr, Amy Peng et al. Science profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Magnon-polarons in the Fermi–Hubbard model 2025 ·Nature Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), Ivan Morera, (unknown), David A. Huse, Eugene Demler, Waseem Bakr	0
2	Directly imaging spin polarons in a kinetically frustrated Hubbard system 2024 ·Nature ·(unknown), (unknown), Ivan Morera, Eugene Demler, Zoe Z. Yan, Waseem Bakr	24
3	Probing site-resolved correlations in a spin system of ultracold molecules 2023 ·Nature ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Alan Morningstar, David A. Huse, Zoe Z. Yan, Waseem Bakr	75
4	Observation of the Hanbury Brown–Twiss effect with ultracold molecules 2022 ·Nature Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Zoe Z. Yan, Waseem Bakr	20
5	Subdiffusion and heat transport in a tilted 2D Fermi-Hubbard system 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Alan Morningstar, (unknown), Peter Brown, David A. Huse, Waseem Bakr	1
6	Bad metallic transport in a cold atom Fermi-Hubbard system 2018 ·Science ·Peter Brown, Debayan Mitra, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Reza Nourafkan, Alexis Reymbaut, (unknown), (unknown), A.–M. S. Tremblay, J. Kokalj, David A. Huse, Peter Schauß, Waseem Bakr	162
7	Quantum gas microscopy of an attractive Fermi–Hubbard system 2017 ·Nature Physics ·Debayan Mitra, Peter Brown, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Stanimir Kondov, Trithep Devakul, David A. Huse, Peter Schauß, Waseem Bakr	72
8	Observation of canted antiferromagnetism with ultracold fermions in an optical lattice 2016 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Peter Brown, Debayan Mitra, Elmer Guardado-Sanchez, Peter Schauß, Stanimir Kondov, Ehsan Khatami, Thereza Paiva, Nandini Trivedi, David A. Huse, Waseem Bakr	121
9	Phase Separation and Pair Condensation in a Spin-Imbalanced 2D Fermi Gas 2016 ·Physical Review Letters ·Debayan Mitra, Peter Brown, Peter Schauß, Stanimir Kondov, Waseem Bakr	28
10	Quantum-Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms 2015 ·Physical Review Letters ·Lawrence W. Cheuk, Matthew A. Nichols, Melih Okan, (unknown), Vinay Ramasesh, Waseem Bakr, Thomas Lompe, Martin W. Zwierlein	261
11	Heavy solitons in a fermionic superfluid 2013 ·Nature ·Tarik Yefsah, Ariel Sommer, Mark Ku, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Wenjie Ji, Waseem Bakr, Martin W. Zwierlein	109
12	Evolution of Fermion Pairing from Three to Two Dimensions 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Ariel Sommer, Lawrence W. Cheuk, Mark Ku, Waseem Bakr, Martin W. Zwierlein	137
13	Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas breakdown → 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·Lawrence W. Cheuk, Ariel Sommer, Zoran Hadzibabic, Tarik Yefsah, Waseem Bakr, Martin W. Zwierlein	718
14	Interaction-induced orbital excitation blockade of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice 2011 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Waseem Bakr, Philipp M. Preiss, M. Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner	1
15	Photon-Assisted Tunneling in a Biased Strongly Correlated Bose Gas 2011 ·Physical Review Letters ·Ruichao Ma, M. Eric Tai, Philipp M. Preiss, Waseem Bakr, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner	110
16	Quantum simulation of antiferromagnetic spin chains in an optical lattice breakdown → 2011 ·Nature ·Jonathan Simon, Waseem Bakr, Ruichao Ma, M. Eric Tai, Philipp M. Preiss, Markus Greiner	641
17	Orbital excitation blockade and algorithmic cooling in quantum gases 2011 ·Nature ·Waseem Bakr, Philipp M. Preiss, M. Eric Tai, Ruichao Ma, Jonathan Simon, Markus Greiner	64
18	Quantum gas microscope 2009 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Jonathon Gillen, Waseem Bakr, Amy Peng, (unknown), Markus Greiner	1
19	A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice breakdown → 2009 ·Nature ·Waseem Bakr, Jonathon Gillen, Amy Peng, Simon Fölling, Markus Greiner	1001
20	Experimental investigation of planar ion traps 2006 ·Physical Review A ·(unknown), David R. Leibrandt, Waseem Bakr, William Mallard, Kenneth R. Brown, Isaac L. Chuang	90

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