D. Comparat

6.5k citations

167 papers · 5.3k · 1 hit paper · h-index 36

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.5%
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Atomic and Molecular Physics
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Advanced Chemical Physics Studies
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
Spectroscopy top 2%
- Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure

Papers in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 141
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates 79
- Atomic and Molecular Physics 72
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research 16
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions 11
- Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 11
Nuclear and High Energy Physics 22
- Particle Detector Development and Performance 19

Co-authors: P. Pillet (65 shared papers)Matthieu Viteau (21 shared papers)A. Fioretti (25 shared papers)Amodsen Chotia (13 shared papers)Olivier Dulieu (14 shared papers)Thibault Vogt (9 shared papers)A. Crubellier (8 shared papers)Françoise Masnou-Seeuws (5 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review A (36 papers)The European Physical Journal D (16 papers)Physical Review Letters (15 papers)New Journal of Physics (6 papers)Journal of Instrumentation (6 papers)
Partner nations: France Italy Switzerland

In The Last Decade

D. Comparat

164 papers receiving 5.1k citations

D. Comparat's Hit Papers

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Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime 2009 · 669 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2009 Nature Physics

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1	Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime Nature Physics ·Alpha Gaétan, Y. Miroshnychenko, Tatjana Wilk, Amodsen Chotia, Matthieu Viteau, D. Comparat, P. Pillet, Antoine Browaeys Hit paper breakdown →	2009	669
2	Formation of Cold Cs2 Molecules through Photoassociation Physical Review Letters ·A. Fioretti, D. Comparat, A. Crubellier, Olivier Dulieu, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, P. Pillet	1998	464
3	Dipole Blockade at Förster Resonances in High Resolution Laser Excitation of Rydberg States of Cesium Atoms Physical Review Letters ·Thibault Vogt, Matthieu Viteau, Jianming Zhao, Amodsen Chotia, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2006	279
4	Many-Body Effects in a Frozen Rydberg Gas Physical Review Letters ·I. Mourachko, D. Comparat, F. De Tomasi, A. Fioretti, P. Nosbaum, V. M. Akulin, P. Pillet	1998	277
5	Dipole blockade in a cold Rydberg atomic sample [Invited] Journal of the Optical Society of America B ·D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2010	272
6	Optical Pumping and Vibrational Cooling of Molecules Science ·Matthieu Viteau, Amodsen Chotia, M. Allegrini, Nadia Bouloufa-Maafa, Olivier Dulieu, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2008	236
7	Proposed antimatter gravity measurement with an antihydrogen beam Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms ·Alban Kellerbauer, Alexander Belov, Germano Bonomi, I. Boscolo, Roberto Sennen Brusa, M Büchner, V.M. Byakov, L. Cabaret	2008	220
8	Electric-Field Induced Dipole Blockade with Rydberg Atoms Physical Review Letters ·Thibault Vogt, Matthieu Viteau, Amodsen Chotia, Jianming Zhao, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2007	121
9	Atom-Molecule Collisions in an Optically Trapped Gas Physical Review Letters ·Nassim Zahzam, Thibault Vogt, Marcel Carto Constantin Mudrich, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2006	112
10	Photoassociative spectroscopy of the $\mathsf{Cs_2 0_g^-}$ long-range state The European Physical Journal D ·A. Fioretti, D. Comparat, Cyril Drag, Claude Amiot, Olivier Dulieu, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, P. Pillet	1999	98
11	Laser Cooling of Molecular Anions Physical Review Letters ·P. Yzombard, M. Hamamda, S. Gerber, M. Doser, D. Comparat	2015	81
12	Evolution dynamics of a dense frozen Rydberg gas to plasma Physical Review A ·Wenhui Li, Michael W. Noel, Michael Robinson, Paul J. Tanner, Thomas F. Gallagher, D. Comparat, B. Laburthe-Tolra, Nicolas Vanhaecke	2004	80
13	Exploring the WEP with a pulsed cold beam of antihydrogen Classical and Quantum Gravity ·M. Doser, Claude Amsler, Alexander Belov, Germano Bonomi, P. Bräunig, Johan Bremer, Roberto Sennen Brusa, G Burkhart	2012	74
14	General conditions for quantum adiabatic evolution Physical Review A ·D. Comparat	2009	69
15	A moiré deflectometer for antimatter Nature Communications ·Stefano Aghion, O. Ahlén, Claude Amsler, A. Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Alexander Belov, Germano Bonomi, P. Bräunig	2014	69
16	Long-Range Forces between Cold Atoms Physical Review Letters ·A. Fioretti, D. Comparat, Cyril Drag, Thomas F. Gallagher, P. Pillet	1999	66
17	Observation of a Resonant Four-Body Interaction in Cold Cesium Rydberg Atoms Physical Review Letters ·J. H. Gurian, Patrick Cheinet, Paul H. Huillery, A. Fioretti, Jianming Zhao, P. L. Gould, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2012	65
18	Accumulation of Cold Cesium Molecules via Photoassociation in a Mixed Atomic and Molecular Trap Physical Review Letters ·Nicolas Vanhaecke, Wilson S. Melo, B. Laburthe-Tolra, D. Comparat, P. Pillet	2002	62
19	Experimental versus theoretical rates for photoassociation and for formation of ultracold molecules IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics ·Cyril Drag, B. Laburthe-Tolra, Olivier Dulieu, D. Comparat, Mihaela Vatasescu, Salah Boussen, S. Guibal, A. Crubellier	2000	59
20	Cooperative Excitation and Many-Body Interactions in a Cold Rydberg Gas Physical Review Letters ·Matthieu Viteau, Paul H. Huillery, Mark G. Bason, Nicola Malossi, D. Ciampini, O. Morsch, E. Arimondo, D. Comparat	2012	59

About D. Comparat

D. Comparat is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mechanics of Materials and Spectroscopy, having authored 167 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (79 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (72 papers), Particle Detector Development and Performance (19 papers), Relativity and Gravitational Theory (18 papers), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research (16 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (11 papers), Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (11 papers) and Muon and positron interactions and applications (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (4.7k citations), Spectroscopy (324 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (265 citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (17 citations) and Artificial Intelligence (439 citations). D. Comparat has collaborated with scholars based in France, Italy and Switzerland. Frequent co-authors include P. Pillet, Matthieu Viteau, A. Fioretti, Amodsen Chotia, Olivier Dulieu, Thibault Vogt, A. Crubellier, Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, Antoine Browaeys and Y. Miroshnychenko. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review A, The European Physical Journal D, Physical Review Letters, New Journal of Physics and Journal of Instrumentation.

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