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Researcher · Tel Aviv University · Israel

Yakir Aharonov

Yakir Aharonov publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Information and Cryptography and Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics.

OpenAlex
World rank
#107,333
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Israel
#901
of 38,292
Works
349
Citations
32k
Citations per work
90.5
h-index
67
i10-index 171Top 0.7% in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Yakir Aharonov

What does Yakir Aharonov research?

Yakir Aharonov's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (62%), Computer Science (15%), Mathematics (3%).

Physical Sciences: 279 works · 80.0% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 217 works · 62.3% of their workAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 163 works · 46.7% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 36 works · 10.2% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 19 works · 5.4% of their workComputer Science: 52 works · 14.8% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 52 works · 14.8% of their workMathematics: 10 works · 2.9% of their workMathematical Physics: 10 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 61 works · 17.4% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 2.6% of their workMedicine: 9 works · 2.6% of their workPhysiology: 9 works · 2.6% of their workTHEIR WORKYakir Aharonov349works
Physical Sciences80%Health Sciences3%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy21762.3%
    2. Computer Science5214.8%
    3. Mathematics102.9%
  2. Everything else6117.4%
    1. Medicine92.6%
  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics47% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence15% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics10% of their works
  4. 4Nuclear and High Energy Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics3% of their works
  6. 6Physiology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Yakir Aharonov's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Entanglement, Quantum Information, Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Cryptography, Quantum, Optical Lattices and Fluctuation Theorems.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Entanglement3212 topics
  2. Quantum Information2462 topics
  3. Bell Inequality2031 topic
  4. Decoherence2031 topic
  5. Cryptography1181 topic
  6. Quantum1181 topic
  7. Optical Lattices702 topics
  8. Fluctuation Theorems491 topic
  9. Stochastic Thermodynamics491 topic
  10. Semiconductor Quantum Dots471 topic
  11. Spintronics471 topic
  12. Quantum Simulation431 topic
  13. Ultracold Gases431 topic
  14. Non-Hermitian Physics271 topic
  15. PT-Symmetry271 topic
  16. Biofield241 topic
  17. Biophoton241 topic
  18. Lagrangian Coherent Structures231 topic
  19. Quantum Chaos231 topic

Where does Yakir Aharonov work?

Yakir Aharonov's main affiliation in the publication record is Tel Aviv University, Israel.

How many publications and citations does Yakir Aharonov have?

OpenAlex counts 349 works and 31,581 citations for Yakir Aharonov, an h-index of 67, ranking #107,333 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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