2026 Jean Dalibard: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	86	2499	2375	107	105	295	50990

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2499

2375

107

105

295

50990

Research.com Recognitions

2021 - CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research Physics
2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2013 - OSA Fellows For groundbreaking theoretical work on atom–light interactions—including the elucidation of new laser cooling mechanisms—and for seminal experimental work on the optical manipulation of cold atoms and quantum gases.
2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his seminal contributions to the physics of lightatom interactions and cold 2D atomic gases
2012 - Max Born Award, Optical Society
2012 - Davisson–Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society
2011 - Member of Academia Europaea
2010 - Three Physicists Prize (Prix des trois physiciens), École Normale Supérieure (ENS)
2005 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences

Overview

Jean Dalibard is affiliated with the Collège de France in France and focuses primarily on Physics and Astronomy. Their research encompasses several subfields, notably Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Spectroscopy, and aspects of the History and Philosophy of Science.

Their published work covers a range of topics, with a significant emphasis on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics, and Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research. Other key topics include Quantum Information and Cryptography, Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Strong Light-Matter Interactions, and Quantum optics and atomic interactions.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

Sylvain Nascimbène
J. Beugnon
C. Maury
Brice Bakkali-Hassani
An Qu

Jean Dalibard's research articles appear extensively in several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

Physical Review Letters
arXiv (Cornell University)
L'annuaire du Collège de France
Physical review. A/Physical review, A
Science

Significant papers authored or coauthored by Jean Dalibard include:

"Realization of a Townes Soliton in a Two-Component Planar Bose Gas," 2021, Physical Review Letters
"Probing Spin Correlations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Near the Single-Atom Level," 2020, Physical Review Letters
"Observation of fragmentation of a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate," 2021, Science
"Superfluid Fraction in an Interacting Spatially Modulated Bose-Einstein Condensate," 2023, Physical Review Letters
"From Many-Body Oscillations to Thermalization in an Isolated Spinor Gas," 2021, Physical Review Letters

Jean Dalibard has also contributed to book publications, including a 2024 work titled À bras-le-corps! Savants et instruments au Collège de France au XIXe siècle, published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

The scientist has been recognized with numerous awards, including:

CNRS Gold Medal, French National Centre for Scientific Research (2021)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2013), cited for seminal contributions to light-atom interactions and cold 2D atomic gases
OSA Fellow (2013), for theoretical work on atom-light interactions and experimental work on cold atoms and quantum gases
Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society (2012)
Max Born Award, Optical Society (2012)
Member of Academia Europaea (2011)
Three Physicists Prize, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) (2010)
Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2005)

Best Publications

Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases

Immanuel Bloch;Jean Dalibard;Wilhelm Zwerger

9691
Citations
Experimental Test of Bell's Inequalities Using Time- Varying Analyzers

Alain Aspect;Jean Dalibard;Gérard Roger

6145
Citations
Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases

Immanuel Bloch;Jean Dalibard;Sylvain Nascimbène

2693
Citations
Laser cooling below the Doppler limit by polarization gradients: simple theoretical models

Jean Dalibard;C. Cohen-Tannoudji

2355
Citations
Wave-function approach to dissipative processes in quantum optics.

Jean Dalibard;Yvan Castin;Klaus Mølmer

2254
Citations
Colloquium: Artificial gauge potentials for neutral atoms

Jean Dalibard;Fabrice Gerbier;Gediminas Juzeliūnas;Patrik Öhberg

2252
Citations
Monte Carlo wave-function method in quantum optics

Klaus Mølmer;Yvan Castin;Jean Dalibard

1466
Citations
Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless crossover in a trapped atomic gas

Zoran Hadzibabic;Peter Krüger;Marc Cheneau;Baptiste Battelier

1279
Citations
Periodically-driven quantum systems: Effective Hamiltonians and engineered gauge fields

Nathan Goldman;Nathan Goldman;Jean Dalibard;Jean Dalibard

1009
Citations
Dressed-atom approach to atomic motion in laser light: the dipole force revisited

J. Dalibard;C. Cohen-Tannoudji

920
Citations
Topological bands for ultracold atoms.

N. R. Cooper;J. Dalibard;I. B. Spielman

822
Citations
Relative phase of two Bose-Einstein condensates

Yvan Castin;Jean Dalibard

585
Citations
PHASE-SPACE DENSITY IN THE MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAP

C. G. Townsend;N. H. Edwards;C. J. Cooper;K. P. Zetie

563
Citations
Fast Rotation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Vincent Bretin;Sabine Stock;Yannick Seurin;Jean Dalibard

525
Citations
Stationary States of a Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensate: Routes to Vortex Nucleation

K.W. Madison;Frédéric Chevy;Vincent Bretin;Jean Dalibard

449
Citations
Laser Cooling of Cesium Atoms Below 3 μK

C. Salomon;J. Dalibard;W. D. Phillips;A. Clairon

427
Citations
Measurement of the angular momentum of a rotating bose-einstein condensate

F. Chevy;K. W. Madison;J. Dalibard

405
Citations
Vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction : identification of their respective contributions

J. Dalibard;J. Dupont-Roc;C. Cohen-Tannoudji

396
Citations
Gauge fields for ultracold atoms in optical superlattices

Fabrice Gerbier;Jean Dalibard

386
Citations
Cesium atoms bouncing in a stable gravitational cavity

C. G. Aminoff;A. M. Steane;P. Bouyer;P. Desbiolles

361
Citations