Yair Litman

954 total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 382 citations indexed

About

Yair Litman is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yair Litman has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 382 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 5 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yair Litman's work include Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (7 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (6 papers). Yair Litman is often cited by papers focused on Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (11 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (7 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (6 papers). Yair Litman collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Argentina. Yair Litman's co-authors include Mariana Rossi, Yuki Nagata, Takashi Kumagai, Jeremy O. Richardson, Mischa Bonn, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Takakazu Seki, David M. Wilkins, Jörg Behler and Hernán B. Rodríguez and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Yair Litman

20 papers receiving 381 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.

Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions

2024 77 citations Yair Litman, Kuo-Yang Chiang et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yair Litman Germany	10	210	131	66	53	53	20	382
Chong Peng China	11	248 1.2×	158 1.2×	58 0.9×	52 1.0×	91 1.7×	24	459
Yasmine S. Al-Hamdani United Kingdom	10	138 0.7×	205 1.6×	63 1.0×	54 1.0×	41 0.8×	17	390
Zeke A. Piskulich United States	13	197 0.9×	108 0.8×	47 0.7×	40 0.8×	74 1.4×	27	418
Yoshinobu Akinaga Japan	10	201 1.0×	164 1.3×	151 2.3×	45 0.8×	40 0.8×	21	400
Hossam Elgabarty Germany	12	217 1.0×	140 1.1×	52 0.8×	59 1.1×	141 2.7×	22	433
Andrei V. Egorov Russia	11	195 0.9×	142 1.1×	39 0.6×	33 0.6×	61 1.2×	28	416
Vasileios Balos Germany	12	173 0.8×	75 0.6×	116 1.8×	31 0.6×	99 1.9×	22	359
Martin Stöhr Luxembourg	9	176 0.8×	231 1.8×	70 1.1×	51 1.0×	22 0.4×	10	426
Yuanqin Yu China	10	166 0.8×	116 0.9×	48 0.7×	28 0.5×	115 2.2×	26	385
Lucas Koziol United States	14	201 1.0×	147 1.1×	50 0.8×	90 1.7×	70 1.3×	26	506

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Litman, Yair & Angelos Michaelides. (2025). Entropy Governs the Structure and Reactivity of Water Dissociation Under Electric Fields. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(49). 44885–44894. 1 indexed citations

Chiang, Kuo-Yang, et al.. (2025). Reevaluating Anomalous Electric Fields at the Air–Water Interface: A Surface-Specific Spectroscopic Survey. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(50). 46163–46173. 1 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, Venkat Kapil, Davide Tisi, et al.. (2024). i-PI 3.0: A flexible and efficient framework for advanced atomistic simulations. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 161(6). 21 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, Kuo-Yang Chiang, Takakazu Seki, Yuki Nagata, & Mischa Bonn. (2024). Surface stratification determines the interfacial water structure of simple electrolyte solutions. Nature Chemistry. 16(4). 644–650. 77 indexed citations breakdown →

Litman, Yair, et al.. (2024). Learning Electronic Polarizations in Aqueous Systems. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 64(11). 4426–4435. 5 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, et al.. (2023). A Hybrid‐Density Functional Theory Study of Intrinsic Point Defects in MX₂ (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) Monolayers. physica status solidi (a). 221(1). 6 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, Jinggang Lan, Yuki Nagata, & David M. Wilkins. (2023). Fully First-Principles Surface Spectroscopy with Machine Learning. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(36). 8175–8182. 21 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, et al.. (2023). First-Principles Simulations of Tip Enhanced Raman Scattering Reveal Active Role of Substrate on High-Resolution Images. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(30). 6850–6859. 8 indexed citations

Litman, Yair, et al.. (2023). Is Unified Understanding of Vibrational Coupling of Water Possible? Hyper-Raman Measurement and Machine Learning Spectra. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 14(12). 3063–3068. 23 indexed citations

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Cirera, Borja, Yair Litman, Chenfang Lin, et al.. (2022). Charge Transfer-Mediated Dramatic Enhancement of Raman Scattering upon Molecular Point Contact Formation. Nano Letters. 22(6). 2170–2176. 28 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, et al.. (2022). Dissipative tunneling rates through the incorporation of first-principles electronic friction in instanton rate theory. II. Benchmarks and applications. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(19). 194107–194107. 9 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, et al.. (2022). Dissipative tunneling rates through the incorporation of first-principles electronic friction in instanton rate theory. I. Theory. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 156(19). 194106–194106. 11 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair & Mariana Rossi. (2020). Multidimensional Hydrogen Tunneling in Supported Molecular Switches: The Role of Surface Interactions. Physical Review Letters. 125(21). 216001–216001. 8 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, Jeremy O. Richardson, Takashi Kumagai, & Mariana Rossi. (2019). Elucidating the Nuclear Quantum Dynamics of Intramolecular Double Hydrogen Transfer in Porphycene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(6). 2526–2534. 71 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, Jörg Behler, & Mariana Rossi. (2019). Temperature dependence of the vibrational spectrum of porphycene: a qualitative failure of classical-nuclei molecular dynamics. Faraday Discussions. 221(0). 526–546. 28 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, Hernán B. Rodríguez, Silvia E. Braslavsky, & Enrique San Román. (2018). Photophysics of Xanthene Dyes at High Concentrations in Solid Environments: Charge Transfer Assisted Triplet Formation. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 94(5). 865–874. 7 indexed citations

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Kumagai, Takashi, Yair Litman, Mariana Rossi, et al.. (2017). Quantum tunneling in real space: Tautomerization of single porphycene molecules on the (111) surface of Cu, Ag, and Au. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 148(10). 102330–102330. 30 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, Pablo E. Videla, Javier Rodríguez, & Daniel Laría. (2016). Positional Isotope Exchange in HX·(H₂O)_n (X = F, I) Clusters at Low Temperatures. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120(36). 7213–7224. 4 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, Hernán B. Rodríguez, & Enrique San Román. (2015). Tuning the concentration of dye loaded polymer films for maximum photosensitization efficiency: phloxine B in poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate). Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 15(1). 80–85. 16 indexed citations

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Litman, Yair, et al.. (2014). Effect of Concentration on the Formation of Rose Bengal Triplet State on Microcrystalline Cellulose: A Combined Laser-Induced Optoacoustic Spectroscopy, Diffuse Reflectance Flash Photolysis, and Luminescence Study. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(45). 10531–10537. 7 indexed citations

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