Wolfgang Ketterle

50.6k total citations · 32 hit papers
275 papers, 36.0k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Ketterle is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Spectroscopy and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Ketterle has authored 275 papers receiving a total of 36.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 34 papers in Spectroscopy and 28 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Ketterle's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (245 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (133 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (81 papers). Wolfgang Ketterle is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (245 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (133 papers) and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (81 papers). Wolfgang Ketterle collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Wolfgang Ketterle's co-authors include Dan Stamper-Kurn, M. R. Andrews, S. Inouye, Dallin Durfee, Christian H. Schunck, H.‐J. Miesner, Martin W. Zwierlein, C. G. Townsend, N. J. van Druten and A. P. Chikkatur and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Ketterle

269 papers receiving 34.4k citations

Hit Papers

Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Gas of Sodium Atoms 1993 2026 2004 2015 1995 1997 1998 2001 1997 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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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. Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Gas of Sodium Atoms
    1995 3.8k citations M.‐O. Mewes, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Bose-Einstein condensation
    1997 1.9k citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. profile →
  3. Observation of Feshbach resonances in a Bose–Einstein condensate
    1998 1.5k citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. profile →
  4. Observation of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates
    2001 1.1k citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Science profile →
  5. Observation of Interference Between Two Bose Condensates
    1997 1.0k citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Science profile →
  6. Condensation of Pairs of Fermionic Atoms near a Feshbach Resonance
    2004 911 citations Martin W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Spin domains in ground-state Bose–Einstein condensates
    1998 876 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. profile →
  8. Realizing the Harper Hamiltonian with Laser-Assisted Tunneling in Optical Lattices
    2013 826 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  9. Optical Confinement of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
    1998 820 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Vortices and superfluidity in a strongly interacting Fermi gas
    2005 734 citations Martin W. Zwierlein, André Schirotzek et al. profile →
  11. Realization of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Lower Dimensions
    2001 725 citations Axel Görlitz, Subhadeep Gupta et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  12. Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules
    2003 691 citations Martin W. Zwierlein, C. A. Stan et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Fermionic Superfluidity with Imbalanced Spin Populations
    2005 675 citations Martin W. Zwierlein, André Schirotzek et al. Science profile →
  14. Bragg Spectroscopy of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
    1999 559 citations David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  15. Output Coupler for Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms
    1997 542 citations M.‐O. Mewes, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  16. Nobel lecture: When atoms behave as waves: Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser
    2002 523 citations Wolfgang Ketterle profile →
  17. Collective Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Magnetic Trap
    1996 450 citations M.‐O. Mewes, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  18. A stripe phase with supersolid properties in spin–orbit-coupled Bose–Einstein condensates
    2017 387 citations Sean Burchesky, Alan O. Jamison et al. profile →
  19. High densities of cold atoms in adarkspontaneous-force optical trap
    1993 380 citations Wolfgang Ketterle, David E. Pritchard et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  20. Superradiant Rayleigh Scattering from a Bose-Einstein Condensate
    1999 377 citations David E. Pritchard, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Science profile →
  21. Bose-Einstein condensation of a finite number of particles trapped in one or three dimensions
    1996 372 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. profile →
  22. Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Tightly Confining dc Magnetic Trap
    1996 370 citations M.‐O. Mewes, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  23. Evidence for a Critical Velocity in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
    1999 358 citations Zoran Hadzibabic, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  24. Strongly Enhanced Inelastic Collisions in a Bose-Einstein Condensate near Feshbach Resonances
    1999 325 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  25. Excitation of Phonons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate by Light Scattering
    1999 324 citations Axel Görlitz, Subhadeep Gupta et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  26. Propagation of Sound in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
    1997 303 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  27. Observation of Metastable States in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates
    1999 291 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  28. Vortex Nucleation in a Stirred Bose-Einstein Condensate
    2001 283 citations K. Xu, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  29. Direct, Nondestructive Observation of a Bose Condensate
    1996 271 citations M.‐O. Mewes, Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Science profile →
  30. Collisionless and Hydrodynamic Excitations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
    1998 262 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  31. Observation of Superfluid Flow in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
    2000 244 citations Wolfgang Ketterle et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  32. Dipolar spin-exchange and entanglement between molecules in an optical tweezer array
    2023 77 citations Yicheng Bao, Scarlett S. Yu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wolfgang Ketterle United States 92 34.9k 5.7k 4.2k 3.4k 2.2k 275 36.0k
Jean Dalibard France 60 24.0k 0.7× 3.3k 0.6× 6.5k 1.6× 2.9k 0.8× 1.0k 0.5× 167 24.7k
Eric Cornell United States 61 20.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 2.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.6× 141 21.6k
Immanuel Bloch Germany 87 40.0k 1.1× 9.8k 1.7× 8.6k 2.0× 5.9k 1.8× 1.8k 0.8× 194 41.5k
Markus Greiner United States 50 19.9k 0.6× 4.6k 0.8× 6.0k 1.4× 2.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.5× 90 21.1k
A. J. Leggett United States 40 14.7k 0.4× 4.3k 0.7× 5.1k 1.2× 4.3k 1.3× 741 0.3× 99 17.5k
M. Inguscio Italy 67 15.2k 0.4× 2.5k 0.4× 1.4k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 2.3k 1.1× 311 16.7k
Masahito Ueda Japan 69 18.9k 0.5× 3.2k 0.6× 4.0k 1.0× 6.3k 1.9× 306 0.1× 332 20.8k
S. Stringari Italy 62 19.1k 0.5× 3.0k 0.5× 1.1k 0.3× 3.0k 0.9× 977 0.4× 284 20.4k
Tilman Esslinger Switzerland 59 20.0k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 4.2k 1.0× 2.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 149 20.6k
Élliott H. Lieb United States 75 15.4k 0.4× 8.4k 1.5× 2.9k 0.7× 4.9k 1.5× 563 0.3× 269 29.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yu, Scarlett S., Yicheng Bao, Loïc Anderegg, et al.. (2026). A conveyor-belt magneto-optical trap of CaF. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1175–1175.
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Chua, C.L., et al.. (2025). In Situ Imaging of the Thermal de Broglie Wavelength in an Ultracold Bose Gas. Physical Review Letters. 134(18). 183401–183401. 5 indexed citations
3.
Lu, Yu‐Kun, et al.. (2024). Atomic physics on a 50-nm scale: Realization of a bilayer system of dipolar atoms. Science. 384(6695). 546–551. 15 indexed citations
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Bao, Yicheng, Scarlett S. Yu, Jiaqi You, et al.. (2024). Raman Sideband Cooling of Molecules in an Optical Tweezer Array to the 3D Motional Ground State. Physical Review X. 14(3). 8 indexed citations
5.
Flannigan, Stuart, et al.. (2023). Many-body spin rotation by adiabatic passage in spin-1/2 XXZ chains of ultracold atoms. Quantum Science and Technology. 8(3). 35018–35018. 5 indexed citations
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Park, Juliana, Yu‐Kun Lu, Tijs Karman, et al.. (2023). Spectrum of Feshbach Resonances in NaLi+Na Collisions. Physical Review X. 13(3). 11 indexed citations
7.
Ketterle, Wolfgang, et al.. (2023). Spin Dynamics Dominated by Resonant Tunneling into Molecular States. Physical Review Letters. 131(21). 213001–213001. 6 indexed citations
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Margalit, Yair, et al.. (2022). Long-lived phantom helix states in Heisenberg quantum magnets. Nature Physics. 18(8). 899–904. 42 indexed citations
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Chung, Woo Chang, et al.. (2021). Tunable Single-Ion Anisotropy in Spin-1 Models Realized with Ultracold Atoms. Physical Review Letters. 126(16). 163203–163203. 19 indexed citations
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Burchesky, Sean, Loïc Anderegg, Yicheng Bao, et al.. (2021). Observation of Microwave Shielding of Ultracold Molecules. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Ho, Wen Wei, et al.. (2021). Transverse Spin Dynamics in the Anisotropic Heisenberg Model Realized with Ultracold Atoms. Physical Review X. 11(4). 39 indexed citations
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Jamison, Alan O., et al.. (2020). Enhancing the capture velocity of a Dy magneto-optical trap with two-stage slowing. Physical review. A. 101(6). 23 indexed citations
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Buyskikh, Anton S., et al.. (2020). Enhanced Superexchange in a Tilted Mott Insulator. Physical Review Letters. 124(4). 43204–43204. 24 indexed citations
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Ketterle, Wolfgang, et al.. (2014). Vibrational quenching of the electronic ground state in ThO in cold collisions with [superscript 3]He. Physical Review Letters. 1 indexed citations
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Schirotzek, André, Yong-il Shin, Martin W. Zwierlein, Christian H. Schunck, & Wolfgang Ketterle. (2007). Observation of Phase Separation in a Strongly-Interacting Imbalanced Fermi Gas. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 38. 6 indexed citations
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Campbell, Gretchen K., Jongchul Mun, Micah Boyd, et al.. (2006). Parametric Amplification of Scattered Atom Pairs. Physical Review Letters. 96(2). 20406–20406. 66 indexed citations
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Jo, Gyu-Boong, Yong-il Shin, Christian Sanner, et al.. (2006). Interference of Bose-Einstein Condensates on an Atom Chip. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 37. 3 indexed citations
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Chin, J. K., David E. Miller, C. A. Stan, et al.. (2006). Superfluidity of Ultracold Fermions in an Optical Lattice. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Hadzibabic, Zoran, C. A. Stan, Kai Dieckmann, et al.. (2002). Two-Species Mixture of Quantum Degenerate Bose and Fermi Gases. Physical Review Letters. 88(16). 160401–160401. 360 indexed citations
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Ketterle, Wolfgang & M.‐O. Mewes. (1996). Bose‐Einstein‐Kondensation in einem Gas von Natrium‐Atomen. Physikalische Blätter. 52(6). 573–576. 3 indexed citations

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