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  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Spain Leader Award
  • 2018 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2017 - Polish Academy of Science
  • 2012 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his seminal contributions to physics of strong laser fields, quantum degenerate gases and quantum information theory

Overview

Maciej Lewenstein is affiliated with the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain. Their research spans primarily the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a specific focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as notable contributions in Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Quantum many-body systems
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Quantum and electron transport phenomena
  • Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Maciej Lewenstein has published extensively in prominent venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review B
  • Physical Review A
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review Research

Recent representative papers include:

  • "Generation of optical Schrödinger cat states in intense laser-matter interactions" (2021) published in Nature Physics
  • "Bounds on the capacity and power of quantum batteries" (2020) published in Physical Review Research
  • "Polynomially Filtered Exact Diagonalization Approach to Many-Body Localization" (2020) published in Physical Review Letters
  • "Circular dichroism in higher-order harmonic generation: Heralding topological phases and transitions in Chern insulators" (2020) published in Physical Review B
  • "Unsupervised Phase Discovery with Deep Anomaly Detection" (2020) published in Physical Review Letters

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues including Marcelo F. Ciappina, Utso Bhattacharya, Jakub Zakrzewski, Tobias Graß, and Marcin Płodzień.

Lewenstein has also contributed to book publications across several publishers, such as Springer Science+Business Media and Cambridge University Press. Titles include:

  • "Tensor Network Contractions" (2020)
  • "Sketches of Physics" (2023)
  • "Tensor Network Contractions: Methods and Applications to Quantum Many-Body Systems" (2020)
  • "Machine Learning in Quantum Sciences" (2025)

The scientist has received several awards and honors, including:

  • Member of Academia Europaea (2018)
  • Polish Academy of Science (2017)
  • Member of the European Academy of Sciences (2012)
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) (2004) with citation for contributions to the physics of strong laser fields, quantum degenerate gases, and quantum information theory

Best Publications

  • Theory of high-harmonic generation by low-frequency laser fields.

    M. Lewenstein;Ph. Balcou;M. Ivanov;Anne L’Huillier

  • Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices: mimicking condensed matter physics and beyond

    Maciej Lewenstein;Anna Sanpera;Veronica Ahufinger;Bogdan Damski

  • Dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates

    S. Burger;K. Bongs;S. Dettmer;W. Ertmer

  • Ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices: Mimicking condensed matter physics and beyond

    Maciej Lewenstein;Anna Sanpera;Veronica Ahufinger;Bogdan Damski

  • Volume of the set of separable states

    Karol Życzkowski;Paweł Horodecki;Anna Sanpera;Maciej Lewenstein

  • The physics of dipolar bosonic quantum gases

    Thierry Lahaye;Thierry Lahaye;Thierry Lahaye;C. Menotti;L. Santos;M. Lewenstein

  • Quantum Games and Quantum Strategies

    Jens Eisert;Martin Wilkens;Maciej Lewenstein

  • Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices: Simulating Quantum Many-Body Systems

    Maciej Lewenstein;Anna Sanpera;Verònica Ahufinger

  • Attosecond pulse trains using high-order harmonics

    Philippe Antoine;Philippe Antoine;Anne L'Huillier;Maciej Lewenstein

  • Optimization of entanglement witnesses

    M. Lewenstein;B. Kraus;J. I. Cirac;P. Horodecki

  • Quantum Optics of Dielectric Media

    Roy J. Glauber;M. Lewenstein

  • Feynman's Path-Integral Approach for Intense-Laser-Atom Interactions

    P. Salières;B. Carré;L. Le Déroff;F. Grasbon

  • Quantum simulation of frustrated classical magnetism in triangular optical lattices.

    J. Struck;C. Ölschläger;R. Le Targat;P. Soltan-Panahi

  • Bose-einstein condensation in trapped dipolar gases

    L. Santos;G. V. Shlyapnikov;G. V. Shlyapnikov;P. Zoller;M. Lewenstein

  • Quantum Phases of Dipolar Bosons in Optical Lattices

    K. Góral;L. Santos;M. Lewenstein

  • Tunable Gauge Potential for Neutral and Spinless Particles in Driven Optical Lattices

    J. Struck;C. Ölschläger;M. Weinberg;P. Hauke

  • Classification of mixed three-qubit states

    A. Acin;D. Bruss;M. Lewenstein;A. Sanpera

  • Coherence control of high-order harmonics.

    Pascal Salières;Anne L'Huillier;Maciej Lewenstein

  • Roton-Maxon Spectrum and Stability of Trapped Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

    L. Santos;G. V. Shlyapnikov;G. V. Shlyapnikov;M. Lewenstein

  • Phase of the atomic polarization in high-order harmonic generation

    Maciej Lewenstein;Pascal Salières;Anne L’Huillier

Frequent Co-Authors

J. I. Cirac
J. I. Cirac Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck
Antonio Acín
Antonio Acín Institute of Photonic Sciences
Wolfgang Ertmer
Wolfgang Ertmer University of Hannover
Anne L'Huillier
Anne L'Huillier Lund University
Andrzej Nowak
Andrzej Nowak University of Warsaw
J. Ignacio Cirac
J. Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Society
Robert Moszynski
Robert Moszynski University of Warsaw
Jens Eisert
Jens Eisert Freie Universität Berlin
Boris A. Malomed
Boris A. Malomed Tel Aviv University

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