William Legrand

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William Legrand is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, William Legrand has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 17 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 10 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in William Legrand's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (31 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (12 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (12 papers). William Legrand is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (31 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (12 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (12 papers). William Legrand collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and Germany. William Legrand's co-authors include Nicolas Reyren, Vincent Cros, Davide Maccariello, Sophie Collin, A. Fert, K. Bouzéhouane, Fernando Ajejas, Hyunsoo Yang, Aymeric Vecchiola and Rajagopalan Ramaswamy and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

William Legrand

40 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Room-temperature stabilization of antiferromagnetic skyrm... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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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. Room-temperature stabilization of antiferromagnetic skyrmions in synthetic antiferromagnets
    2019 322 citations William Legrand, Davide Maccariello et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Legrand France 17 1.3k 610 557 361 322 45 1.5k
Gong Chen United States 17 1.1k 0.9× 627 1.0× 577 1.0× 317 0.9× 444 1.4× 34 1.4k
J. Ding Singapore 21 1.2k 0.9× 637 1.0× 431 0.8× 398 1.1× 250 0.8× 63 1.5k
Dong‐Hyun Kim South Korea 18 983 0.8× 869 1.4× 546 1.0× 334 0.9× 460 1.4× 130 1.6k
Vojtěch Uhlíř Czechia 18 923 0.7× 497 0.8× 297 0.5× 371 1.0× 344 1.1× 48 1.2k
Jun Woo Choi South Korea 18 1.2k 0.9× 802 1.3× 556 1.0× 321 0.9× 693 2.2× 65 1.7k
Kiyou Shibata Japan 22 1.7k 1.3× 968 1.6× 917 1.6× 201 0.6× 346 1.1× 56 1.9k
Tomoya Higo Japan 18 2.1k 1.6× 1.2k 1.9× 1.3k 2.3× 427 1.2× 1.1k 3.3× 63 2.8k
Kristen Buchanan United States 18 1.1k 0.8× 389 0.6× 535 1.0× 263 0.7× 220 0.7× 58 1.2k
M. Gottwald United States 16 1.0k 0.8× 524 0.9× 214 0.4× 539 1.5× 278 0.9× 31 1.2k
Joachim Gräfe Germany 20 809 0.6× 416 0.7× 297 0.5× 279 0.8× 208 0.6× 62 1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Legrand

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2026). On demand laser-induced frequency tuning of coherent magnons in a nanometer-thick magnet at room temperature. Nature Communications. 17(1). 145–145.
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2025). Microsecond-lived quantum states in a carbon-based circuit driven by cavity photons. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5636–5636. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Hanchen, Min‐Gu Kang, Shilei Ding, et al.. (2025). Orbital Pumping in Ferrimagnetic Insulators. Physical Review Letters. 134(12). 126701–126701. 3 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2025). Implementation of field-differential phase-resolved microwave magnetic spectroscopy. Review of Scientific Instruments. 96(3). 1 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2024). Observation of quantum oscillations in the extreme weak anharmonic limit. Physical review. B.. 109(6). 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Hanchen, Jilei Chen, William Legrand, et al.. (2024). Broad-wave-vector spin pumping of flat-band magnons. Physical Review Applied. 21(4). 10 indexed citations
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Ajejas, Fernando, William Legrand, Titiksha Srivastava, et al.. (2023). Densely packed skyrmions stabilized at zero magnetic field by indirect exchange coupling in multilayers. APL Materials. 11(6). 4 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2023). Optimal design of nanomagnets for on-chip field gradients. Physical Review Applied. 20(4). 1 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, Magdalena Margańska, Matthieu Dartiailh, et al.. (2023). Inhomogeneous magnetic fields interacting with spinful states in a double quantum dot: Evidence for a staggered spin-orbit interaction. Physical review. B.. 107(8). 1 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, Fernando Ajejas, Pierluigi Gargiani, et al.. (2023). Probing of three-dimensional spin textures in multilayers by field dependent X-ray resonant magnetic scattering. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 11711–11711. 4 indexed citations
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Sievers, S., Felipe García‐Sánchez, Fernando Ajejas, et al.. (2023). Radially dependent stray field signature of chiral magnetic skyrmions. Physical review. B.. 108(10). 1 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, et al.. (2022). Zero energy states clustering in an elemental nanowire coupled to a superconductor. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6188–6188. 3 indexed citations
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Finco, Aurore, S. Chouaieb, Waseem Akhtar, et al.. (2021). Imaging non-collinear antiferromagnetic textures via single spin relaxometry. Nature Communications. 12(1). 767–767. 76 indexed citations
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Flewett, Samuel, William Legrand, Fernando Ajejas, et al.. (2021). Chiral spin spiral in synthetic antiferromagnets probed by circular dichroism in x-ray resonant magnetic scattering. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Barton, Craig, Héctor Corte‐León, S. Sievers, et al.. (2021). Thermoelectric Signature of Individual Skyrmions. Physical Review Letters. 126(7). 77202–77202. 22 indexed citations
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McVitie, S., S. D. Hughes, S. McFadzean, et al.. (2018). A transmission electron microscope study of Néel skyrmion magnetic textures in multilayer thin film systems with large interfacial chiral interaction. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5703–5703. 40 indexed citations
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Qiu, Xuepeng, William Legrand, Pan He, et al.. (2016). Enhanced Spin-Orbit Torque via Modulation of Spin Current Absorption. Physical Review Letters. 117(21). 217206–217206. 106 indexed citations
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Legrand, William, Rajagopalan Ramaswamy, Rahul Mishra, & Hyunsoo Yang. (2015). Coherent sub-nanosecond switching of perpendicular magnetization by the field-like spin-orbit torque without external magnetic field. 2015 IEEE Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG). 4. 1–1. 5 indexed citations
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Magremanne, Michèle, et al.. (2007). Nécrose avasculaire de la mandibule. Revue de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale. 108(6). 539–542. 1 indexed citations
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Magremanne, Michèle, et al.. (2006). Bisphosphonates et ostéo(chimio)nécrose maxillo-mandibulaire. Revue de Stomatologie et de Chirurgie Maxillo-faciale. 107(6). 423–428. 10 indexed citations

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