2026 Loren Pfeiffer: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	127	620	592	343	322	1596	62165

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Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1994 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the growth of ultrahigh mobility semiconductor materials, the innovative use of molecular beam epitaxy, and the physics of lowdimensional electronic systems

Overview

Loren Pfeiffer is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy and Engineering. Within these areas, their work focuses extensively on several subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

Key topics covered in their research include:

Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Strong Light-Matter Interactions
Topological Materials and Phenomena
Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit Design

Loren Pfeiffer has contributed to a significant number of scientific papers published in high-impact journals and conferences. Frequent publication venues where their work appears include:

Physical Review Letters
Physical Review B
arXiv (Cornell University)
Nature Communications
Nature

Their recent published papers exemplify the focus and breadth of their research. Selected recent papers include:

"Measurement of the quantum geometric tensor and of the anomalous Hall drift" (2020), published in Nature
"Polariton Bose-Einstein condensate from a bound state in the continuum" (2022), published in Nature
"Ultra-high-quality two-dimensional electron systems" (2021), published in Nature Materials
"Observation of spontaneous ferromagnetism in a two-dimensional electron system" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Topological phase transition in an all-optical exciton-polariton lattice" (2021), published in Optica

Loren Pfeiffer collaborates frequently with several researchers, forming productive partnerships over many papers. Their most frequent coauthors include:

K. W. West
K. W. Baldwin
M. Shayegan
Yoon Jang Chung
Adbhut Gupta

The scientist's career achievements include recognition by professional bodies. Loren Pfeiffer became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994, acknowledged for contributions to the growth of ultrahigh mobility semiconductor materials, molecular beam epitaxy techniques, and the physics of low-dimensional electronic systems. In 2011, they were inducted as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

Antiresonant reflecting optical waveguides in SiO2‐Si multilayer structures

M. A. Duguay;Y. Kokubun;T. L. Koch;Loren Pfeiffer

913
Citations
Evidence for an Anisotropic State of Two-Dimensional Electrons in High Landau Levels

M. P. Lilly;K. B. Cooper;J. P. Eisenstein;L. N. Pfeiffer

832
Citations
N -electron ground state energies of a quantum dot in magnetic field

RC Ashoori;HL Stormer;JS Weiner;LN Pfeiffer

807
Citations
Optically pumped NMR evidence for finite-size skyrmions in GaAs quantum wells near Landau level filling nu =1.

S. E. Barrett;G. Dabbagh;L. N. Pfeiffer;K. W. West

737
Citations
Evidence for a new dissipationless effect in 2D electronic transport.

M. A. Zudov;R. R. Du;L. N. Pfeiffer;K. W. West

730
Citations
Near-Field Spectroscopy of the Quantum Constituents of a Luminescent System

H. F. Hess;E. Betzig;T. D. Harris;L. N. Pfeiffer

723
Citations
Single-electron capacitance spectroscopy of discrete quantum levels.

R. C. Ashoori;H. L. Stormer;J. S. Weiner;L. N. Pfeiffer

678
Citations
New fractional quantum Hall state in double-layer two-dimensional electron systems.

J. P. Eisenstein;G. S. Boebinger;L. N. Pfeiffer;K. W. West

636
Citations
Resonantly enhanced tunneling in a double layer quantum hall ferromagnet.

I. B. Spielman;J. P. Eisenstein;L. N. Pfeiffer;K. W. West

622
Citations
Nonuniversal conductance quantization in quantum wires

A. Yacoby;H. L. Stormer;Ned S. Wingreen;L. N. Pfeiffer

604
Citations
Formation of a high quality two-dimensional electron gas on cleaved GaAs

Loren Pfeiffer;K. W. West;H. L. Stormer;J. P. Eisenstein

525
Citations
Real-time detection of electron tunnelling in a quantum dot

Wei Lu;Wei Lu;Zhongqing Ji;Loren Pfeiffer;K. W. West

524
Citations
Spin-charge separation and localization in one dimension.

O. M. Auslaender;O. M. Auslaender;O. M. Auslaender;H. Steinberg;H. Steinberg;H. Steinberg;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby;A. Yacoby;Y. Tserkovnyak;Y. Tserkovnyak;Y. Tserkovnyak

508
Citations
Many-body integer quantum Hall effect: Evidence for new phase transitions.

S. Q. Murphy;J. P. Eisenstein;G. S. Boebinger;L. N. Pfeiffer

477
Citations
Electron mobilities exceeding 107 cm2/V s in modulation‐doped GaAs

Loren Pfeiffer;K. W. West;H. L. Stormer;K. W. Baldwin

473
Citations
Controlling the sign of quantum interference by tunnelling from quantum wells

Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Ken W. West

461
Citations
Evidence for Skyrmions and Single Spin Flips in the Integer Quantized Hall Effect.

A. Schmeller;J. P. Eisenstein;L. N. Pfeiffer;K. W. West

442
Citations
Quasi-particle properties from tunneling in the v = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state.

Iuliana P. Radu;J. B. Miller;C. M. Marcus;M. A. Kastner

441
Citations
Scanning Single Electron Transistor Microscopy: Imaging Individual Charges

M. J. Yoo;T. A. Fulton;H. F. Hess;R. L. Willett

438
Citations
Lasing from excitons in quantum wires

W Wegscheider;LN Pfeiffer;MM Dignam;A Pinczuk

436
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