Yonatan Plotnik

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
50 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Yonatan Plotnik is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yonatan Plotnik has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 13 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yonatan Plotnik's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (28 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (21 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (13 papers). Yonatan Plotnik is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (28 papers), Photonic Crystals and Applications (21 papers) and Photonic and Optical Devices (13 papers). Yonatan Plotnik collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. Yonatan Plotnik's co-authors include Mordechai Segev, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Alexander Szameit, Yaakov Lumer, Stefan Nolte, Julia M. Zeuner, Felix Dreisow, Daniel K. Podolsky, Matthias Heinrich and Or Peleg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Materials.

In The Last Decade

Yonatan Plotnik

47 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Photonic Floquet topological insulators

2013 2.3k citations Mikael C. Rechtsman, Julia M. Zeuner et al. Nature profile →
Topologically protected bound states in photonic parity–time-symmetric crystals

2016 628 citations Steffen Weimann, Mark Kremer et al. Nature Materials profile →
Experimental Observation of Optical Bound States in the Continuum

2011 584 citations Yonatan Plotnik, Or Peleg et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Observation of a Topological Transition in the Bulk of a Non-Hermitian System

2015 521 citations Julia M. Zeuner, Mikael C. Rechtsman et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yonatan Plotnik Israel	17	5.1k	1.5k	958	767	609	50	5.5k
Yaakov Lumer Israel	26	6.3k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	809 1.1×	751 1.2×	72	6.7k
Julia M. Zeuner Germany	11	4.0k 0.8×	978 0.6×	644 0.7×	542 0.7×	344 0.6×	23	4.2k
Felix Dreisow Germany	34	5.2k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	1.5k 1.6×	619 0.8×	736 1.2×	87	6.0k
Hannah M. Price Italy	19	3.9k 0.8×	646 0.4×	692 0.7×	466 0.6×	301 0.5×	43	4.2k
Matthias Heinrich Germany	42	5.6k 1.1×	2.6k 1.7×	1.7k 1.7×	528 0.7×	876 1.4×	155	6.5k
Daniel Leykam Singapore	27	3.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	487 0.5×	410 0.5×	253 0.4×	80	3.6k
Bo Zhen United States	19	3.3k 0.6×	923 0.6×	1.3k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	1.4k 2.3×	44	4.1k
Netanel H. Lindner Israel	27	5.2k 1.0×	413 0.3×	835 0.9×	340 0.4×	329 0.5×	75	5.7k
Zhaoju Yang China	23	2.4k 0.5×	304 0.2×	496 0.5×	830 1.1×	806 1.3×	40	2.9k
Andrey A. Sukhorukov Australia	43	5.8k 1.1×	3.5k 2.3×	1.9k 1.9×	1.3k 1.7×	1.0k 1.7×	296	6.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Segal, Ohad, Yonatan Plotnik, Eran Lustig, et al.. (2025). Two-Dimensional Topological Edge States in Periodic Space-Time Interfaces. Physical Review Letters. 135(16). 163801–163801.

Dikopoltsev, Alex, et al.. (2024). Controlling spontaneous emission through the preparation of a photonic time-crystal. Optics Express. 32(22). 39734–39734. 2 indexed citations

Plotnik, Yonatan, et al.. (2024). Time-Domain Bound States in the Continuum. Physical Review Letters. 133(26). 263802–263802. 4 indexed citations

Lustig, Eran, Lukas J. Maczewsky, Tobias Biesenthal, et al.. (2022). Photonic topological insulator induced by a dislocation in three dimensions. Nature. 609(7929). 931–935. 61 indexed citations

Lustig, Eran, Lukas J. Maczewsky, Tobias Biesenthal, et al.. (2022). Three-dimensional photonic topological insulator induced by lattice dislocations. LM1F.3–LM1F.3. 2 indexed citations

Cohen, Moshe-Ishay, Yaakov Lumer, Yonatan Plotnik, et al.. (2020). Generalized laws of refraction and reflection at interfaces between different photonic artificial gauge fields. Light Science & Applications. 9(1). 200–200. 19 indexed citations

Lustig, Eran, et al.. (2019). 3D Parity Time symmetry in 2D photonic lattices utilizing artificial gauge fields in synthetic dimensions. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FTu4B.1–FTu4B.1. 1 indexed citations

Lustig, Eran, et al.. (2019). 3D Parity Time symmetry in 2D photonic lattices utilizing artificial gauge fields in synthetic dimensions. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 1 indexed citations

Weimann, Steffen, Mark Kremer, Yonatan Plotnik, et al.. (2016). Topologically protected bound states in photonic parity–time-symmetric crystals. Nature Materials. 16(4). 433–438. 628 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bandres, Miguel A., Yaakov Lumer, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Yonatan Plotnik, & Mordechai Segev. (2016). Dynamic Waveguiding. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. FF1A.2–FF1A.2.

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Katan, Yaniv Tenenbaum, Rivka Bekenstein, Miguel A. Bandres, et al.. (2016). Induction of Topological Transport by Long Ranged Nonlinearity. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 82. FM3A.6–FM3A.6. 3 indexed citations

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Zeuner, Julia M., Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yonatan Plotnik, et al.. (2015). Observation of a Topological Transition in the Bulk of a Non-Hermitian System. Physical Review Letters. 115(4). 40402–40402. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sheinfux, Hanan Herzig, Ido Kaminer, Yonatan Plotnik, Guy Bartal, & Mordechai Segev. (2014). Subwavelength Multilayer Dielectrics: Ultrasensitive Transmission and Breakdown of Effective-Medium Theory. Physical Review Letters. 113(24). 243901–243901. 52 indexed citations

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Zeuner, Julia M., Mikael C. Rechtsman, Yaakov Lumer, et al.. (2014). Bulk optical measurement of topological numbers in photonic lattices with a non-Hermitian system. FW3C.3–FW3C.3. 1 indexed citations

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Segev, Mordechai, Yonatan Plotnik, Mikael C. Rechtsman, et al.. (2014). Photonic Topological Insulators. STu2M.1–STu2M.1. 1 indexed citations

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Rechtsman, Mikael C., Julia M. Zeuner, Yonatan Plotnik, et al.. (2013). Photonic Floquet topological insulators. Nature. 496(7444). 196–200. 2272 indexed citations breakdown →

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Plotnik, Yonatan, Mikael C. Rechtsman, Daohong Song, et al.. (2013). Observation of unconventional edge states in ‘photonic graphene’. Nature Materials. 13(1). 57–62. 266 indexed citations

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Lumer, Yaakov, Yonatan Plotnik, Mikael C. Rechtsman, & Mordechai Segev. (2013). Self-Localized States in Photonic Topological Insulators. Physical Review Letters. 111(24). 243905–243905. 213 indexed citations

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Rechtsman, Mikael C., Yonatan Plotnik, Julia M. Zeuner, et al.. (2013). Topological Creation and Destruction of Edge States in Photonic Graphene. Physical Review Letters. 111(10). 103901–103901. 208 indexed citations

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Plotnik, Yonatan, Or Peleg, Felix Dreisow, et al.. (2011). Experimental Observation of Optical Bound States in the Continuum. Physical Review Letters. 107(18). 183901–183901. 584 indexed citations breakdown →

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