William J. Eckner

1.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
11 papers, 930 citations indexed

About

William J. Eckner is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Eckner has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 930 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William J. Eckner's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (10 papers), Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (7 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers). William J. Eckner is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (10 papers), Advanced Frequency and Time Standards (7 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (6 papers). William J. Eckner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Egypt. William J. Eckner's co-authors include Adam M. Kaufman, Aaron W. Young, Jun Ye, Nathan Schine, William J. Martin, Joshua B. Burt, John D. Murray, Alan Anticevic, Jie Lisa Ji and Alberto Bernacchia and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

William J. Eckner

11 papers receiving 909 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.

Hierarchy of transcriptomic specialization across human cortex captured by structural neuroimaging topography

2018 363 citations Joshua B. Burt, Murat Demirtaş et al. Nature Neuroscience profile →
Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock

2023 88 citations William J. Eckner, Nelson Darkwah Oppong et al. Nature profile →
Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock

2024 48 citations Alec Cao, William J. Eckner 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
William J. Eckner United States	9	521	301	240	123	65	11	930
S. N. Erné Germany	17	292 0.6×	287 1.0×	23 0.1×	181 1.5×	32 0.5×	71	816
Paul C.J. Taylor United Kingdom	18	244 0.5×	792 2.6×	39 0.2×	37 0.3×	11 0.2×	50	1.2k
Chris A. Cocosco Germany	13	104 0.2×	98 0.3×	68 0.3×	440 3.6×	30 0.5×	19	835
Denis Tolkunov United States	14	201 0.4×	72 0.2×	151 0.6×	13 0.1×	237 3.6×	24	694
Marie‐Constance Corsi France	10	89 0.2×	316 1.0×	23 0.1×	57 0.5×	14 0.2×	27	438
Scott B. Wilson United States	14	60 0.1×	733 2.4×	74 0.3×	38 0.3×	53 0.8×	17	937
Vahid Salari Iran	14	70 0.1×	253 0.8×	69 0.3×	52 0.4×	110 1.7×	49	760
P. Anninos Greece	19	48 0.1×	619 2.1×	187 0.8×	47 0.4×	129 2.0×	112	1.2k
Arthur LaPorta United States	6	630 1.2×	65 0.2×	331 1.4×	86 0.7×	26 0.4×	7	853
Yuri Dabaghian United States	12	108 0.2×	286 1.0×	40 0.2×	27 0.2×	125 1.9×	44	751

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William J. Eckner

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11 of 11 papers shown

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Cao, Alec, et al.. (2025). Autoionization-Enhanced Rydberg Dressing by Fast Contaminant Removal. Physical Review Letters. 134(13). 133201–133201. 1 indexed citations

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Young, Aaron W., William J. Eckner, Nathan Schine, et al.. (2024). An atomic boson sampler. Nature. 629(8011). 311–316. 16 indexed citations

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Cao, Alec, William J. Eckner, Aaron W. Young, et al.. (2024). Multi-qubit gates and Schrödinger cat states in an optical clock. Nature. 634(8033). 315–320. 48 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eckner, William J., Nelson Darkwah Oppong, Alec Cao, et al.. (2023). Realizing spin squeezing with Rydberg interactions in an optical clock. Nature. 621(7980). 734–739. 88 indexed citations breakdown →

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Young, Aaron W., William J. Eckner, Nathan Schine, Andrew M. Childs, & Adam M. Kaufman. (2022). Tweezer-programmable 2D quantum walks in a Hubbard-regime lattice. Science. 377(6608). 885–889. 63 indexed citations

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Schine, Nathan, Aaron W. Young, William J. Eckner, Michael J. Martin, & Adam M. Kaufman. (2022). Long-lived Bell states in an array of optical clock qubits. Nature Physics. 18(9). 1067–1073. 73 indexed citations

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Eckner, William J., Aaron W. Young, Nathan Schine, & Adam M. Kaufman. (2021). High-Power, Fiber-Laser-Based Source for Magic-Wavelength Trapping in Neutral-Atom Optical Clocks. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations

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Young, Aaron W., William J. Eckner, William R. Milner, et al.. (2020). Half-minute-scale atomic coherence and high relative stability in a tweezer clock. Nature. 588(7838). 408–413. 17 indexed citations

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Young, Aaron W., William J. Eckner, William R. Milner, et al.. (2020). A tweezer clock with half-minute atomic coherence at optical frequencies and high relative stability. arXiv (Cornell University). 137 indexed citations

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Norcia, Matthew A., Aaron W. Young, William J. Eckner, et al.. (2019). Seconds-scale coherence on an optical clock transition in a tweezer array. Science. 366(6461). 93–97. 119 indexed citations

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Burt, Joshua B., Murat Demirtaş, William J. Eckner, et al.. (2018). Hierarchy of transcriptomic specialization across human cortex captured by structural neuroimaging topography. Nature Neuroscience. 21(9). 1251–1259. 363 indexed citations breakdown →

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