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Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 59k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of many-body physics with ultracold gases, including topics such as quantum simulation, Bose-Einstein condensation, optical lattices, fermi gases, rydberg atoms, quantum information, mott insulators, dipole interactions, and superfluidity.

  • Ultracold Gases
  • Quantum Simulation
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Optical Lattices
  • Fermi Gases
  • Rydberg Atoms
  • Quantum Information
  • Mott Insulator
  • Dipole Interactions
  • Superfluidity
Research works
59k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
5.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
0%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

Which countries lead Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 United States 1k works
  3. 3 Germany 496 works
  4. 4 France 354 works
  5. 5 India 289 works
  6. 6 Japan 262 works
  7. 7 Russia 256 works
  8. 8 Italy 233 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 227 works
  10. 10 Spain 134 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 29.2%United States: 22.5%Germany: 10.6%France: 7.6%6 others listed: 30.0%29%largest
China1,363 · 29.2%United States1,049 · 22.5%Germany496 · 10.6%France354 · 7.6%6 others listed1,400 · 30.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research, followed by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 186 works
  2. 2 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 162 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 99 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 70 works
  5. 5 Shanxi UniversityChina 54 works
  6. 6 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 50 works
  7. 7 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 48 works
  8. 8 University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 44 works
  9. 9 Peking UniversityChina 43 works
  10. 10 Harvard UniversityUnited States 40 works

Who are the leading researchers in Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates include John P. Perdew, Andre K. Geim and Kieron Burke.

  1. 1 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  2. 2 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  3. 3 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  4. 4 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  5. 5 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  6. 6 Jens K. Nørskov Denmark 260k citations
  7. 7 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
  8. 8 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  9. 9 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  10. 10 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates?

The most cited paper in Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates is "Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics" (Eli Yablonovitch, 1987), with 14,068 citations. Next come "First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code" (11,917) and "Effects of Configuration Interaction on Intensities and Phase Shifts" (11,186).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics Eli Yablonovitch · Physical Review Letters Open access 18 May 1987 14,068
2 First-principles simulation: ideas, illustrations and the CASTEP code Matthew Segall, Philip J. D. Lindan, Matt I. J. Probert et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter Open access 8 Mar 2002 11,917
3 Effects of Configuration Interaction on Intensities and Phase Shifts U. Fano · Physical Review 15 Dec 1961 11,186
4 Fully optimized contracted Gaussian basis sets for atoms Li to Kr Ansgar Schäfer, Hans W. Horn, Reinhart Ahlrichs · The Journal of Chemical Physics 15 Aug 1992 9,689
5 Density-Functional Theory for Time-Dependent Systems Erich Runge, Eberhard K. U. Gross · Physical Review Letters 19 Mar 1984 8,942
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Where is Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research done?

The largest centres of Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia) and Tokyo (Japan).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 330 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 149 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 112 works
  4. 4 TokyoJapan 100 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 97 works
  6. 6 HefeiChina 95 works
  7. 7 WuhanChina 73 works
  8. 8 CambridgeUnited States 70 works
  9. 9 WarsawPoland 61 works
  10. 10 TaiyuanChina 60 works
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Where is the best place to study Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates?

Among universities, judged by research, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Harvard University and University of Colorado Boulder score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany 83.625.1%8.5×39 +20.0%
2Harvard UniversityUnited States 81.331.5%2.4×40 +8.6%
3University of Colorado BoulderUnited States 76.824.0%18.0×44 -2.5%
4Princeton UniversityUnited States 71.827.7%8.9×21 +74.8%
5Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 71.520.5%8.6×32 +8.7%
6ETH ZurichSwitzerland 71.221.3%9.1×33 -10.9%
7California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 66.721.0%14.8×28 +5.1%
8University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 64.512.8%8.0×50 +58.2%
9Universität InnsbruckAustria 63.520.9%14.3×21 -16.2%
10Université Paris-SaclayFrance 61.417.4%7.5×26 +7.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, country by country

Is Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 0% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2016.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.026% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates9.7% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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