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Physical Review A
H-index 48

Physical Review A

2469-9926

Published by: American Physical Society

https://journals.aps.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 30 255 929 41

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 850
Documents by Best Scientists*: 2004
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 28
SCIMAGO H-index: 307
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.033
Impact Factor: 2.9

Top Publications

  • Effective Hamiltonian models of the cross-resonance gate

    Easwar Magesan;Jay M. Gambetta

    (2020)
    203 Citations
  • Locality and entanglement in table-top testing of the quantum nature of linearized gravity

    Ryan J. Marshman;Anupam Mazumdar;Sougato Bose

    (2020)
    178 Citations
  • Verifying multipartite entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states via multiple quantum coherences

    Ken X. Wei;Isaac Lauer;Srikanth Srinivasan;Neereja Sundaresan

    (2020)
    139 Citations
  • Nonreciprocal ground-state cooling of multiple mechanical resonators

    Deng-Gao Lai;Jin-Feng Huang;Xian-Li Yin;Bang-Pin Hou

    (2020)
    122 Citations
  • Collective excitations of a one-dimensional quantum droplet

    Marek Tylutki;Marek Tylutki;Grigori E. Astrakharchik;Boris A. Malomed;Dmitry S. Petrov

    (2020)
    110 Citations
  • Paraxial skyrmionic beams

    Sijia Gao;Fiona C. Speirits;Francesco Castellucci;Sonja Franke-Arnold

    (2020)
    110 Citations
  • Quantum Gravity Witness via Entanglement of Masses: Casimir Screening

    Thomas W. van de Kamp;Ryan J. Marshman;Sougato Bose;Anupam Mazumdar

    (2020)
    104 Citations
  • Digital-analog quantum computation

    Adrian Parra-Rodriguez;Pavel Lougovski;Lucas Lamata;Lucas Lamata;Enrique Solano;Enrique Solano;Enrique Solano

    (2020)
    89 Citations
  • Magnetic Field Measurement and Analysis for the Muon g-2 Experiment at Fermilab

    T. Albahri;A. Anastasi;K. Badgley;S. Baeßler

    (2021)
    81 Citations
  • Tunable optomechanically induced transparency by controlling the dark-mode effect

    Deng-Gao Lai;Xin Wang;Wei Qin;Bang-Pin Hou

    (2020)
    80 Citations

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