| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor | Science | 1995 | 5,988 |
| 2 | Carrier-Envelope Phase Control of Femtosecond Mode-Locked Lasers and Direct Optical Frequency Synthesis | Science | 2000 | 2,344 |
| 3 | Sideband cooling of micromechanical motion to the quantum ground state | Nature | 2011 | 1,701 |
| 4 | A High Phase-Space-Density Gas of Polar Molecules | Science | 2008 | 1,570 |
| 5 | Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers | Science | 2012 | 1,537 |
| 6 | Vortices in a Bose-Einstein Condensate | Physical Review Letters | 1999 | 1,534 |
| 7 | Observation of Resonance Condensation of Fermionic Atom Pairs | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 1,431 |
| 8 | Optical atomic clocks | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2015 | 1,421 |
| 9 | Emergence of a molecular Bose–Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas | Nature | 2003 | 1,129 |
| 10 | Production of Two Overlapping Bose-Einstein Condensates by Sympathetic Cooling | Physical Review Letters | 1997 | 1,045 |
| 11 | Direct Link between Microwave and Optical Frequencies with a 300 THz Femtosecond Laser Comb | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 1,030 |
| 12 | Onset of Fermi Degeneracy in a Trapped Atomic Gas | Science | 1999 | 975 |
| 13 | V Coherent Population Trapping in Laser Spectroscopy | Progress in Optics | 1996 | 933 |
| 14 | Colloquium: Femtosecond optical frequency combs | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2003 | 913 |
| 15 | Dynamics of Component Separation in a Binary Mixture of Bose-Einstein Condensates | Physical Review Letters | 1998 | 852 |
| 16 | An optical lattice clock with accuracy and stability at the 10−18 level | Nature | 2014 | 822 |
| 17 | Quantum-State Controlled Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Potassium-Rubidium Molecules | Science | 2010 | 775 |
| 18 | Stable85RbBose-Einstein Condensates with Widely Tunable Interactions | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 770 |
| 19 | Cold-cathode discharges and breakdown in argon: surface and gas phase production of secondary electrons | Plasma Sources Science and Technology | 1999 | 744 |
| 20 | Optical dielectric function of gold | Physical Review B | 2012 | 704 |
| 21 | Vibrational Energy Flow in Highly Excited Molecules: Role of Intramolecular Vibrational Redistribution | The Journal of Physical Chemistry | 1996 | 690 |
| 22 | Shaped-pulse optimization of coherent emission of high-harmonic soft X-rays | Nature | 2000 | 681 |
| 23 | Observation of dipolar spin-exchange interactions with lattice-confined polar molecules | Nature | 2013 | 671 |
| 24 | Dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose–Einstein condensates | Nature | 2001 | 670 |
| 25 | Nonexponential “blinking” kinetics of single CdSe quantum dots: A universal power law behavior | Journal of Chemical Physics | 2000 | 669 |
| 26 | Spectroscopy made easy: A new tool for fitting observations with synthetic spectra | Astronomy and Astrophysics | 1996 | 666 |
| 27 | Watching Dark Solitons Decay into Vortex Rings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate | Physical Review Letters | 2001 | 656 |
| 28 | Bidirectional and efficient conversion between microwave and optical light | Nature Physics | 2014 | 648 |
| 29 | Nobel Lecture: Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute gas, the first 70 years and some recent experiments | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2002 | 643 |
| 30 | Creation of ultracold molecules from a Fermi gas of atoms | Nature | 2003 | 639 |
| 31 | Formation of supermassive black holes by direct collapse in pre-galactic haloes | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2006 | 610 |
| 32 | Atom–molecule coherence in a Bose–Einstein condensate | Nature | 2002 | 600 |
| 33 | Beyond crystallography: Diffractive imaging using coherent x-ray light sources | Science | 2015 | 596 |
| 34 | Systematic evaluation of an atomic clock at 2 × 10−18 total uncertainty | Nature Communications | 2015 | 584 |
| 35 | Two-orbital S U(N) magnetism with ultracold alkaline-earth atoms | Nature Physics | 2010 | 572 |
| 36 | A sub-40-mHz-linewidth laser based on a silicon single-crystal optical cavity | Nature Photonics | 2012 | 571 |
| 37 | Entangling Mechanical Motion with Microwave Fields | Science | 2013 | 524 |
| 38 | The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation | Nature Photonics | 2010 | 523 |
| 39 | Amplification and squeezing of quantum noise with a tunable Josephson metamaterial | Nature Physics | 2008 | 501 |
| 40 | Sr Lattice Clock at 1 × 10 –16 Fractional Uncertainty by Remote Optical Evaluation with a Ca Clock | Science | 2008 | 500 |
| 41 | Dipolar collisions of polar molecules in the quantum regime | Nature | 2010 | 494 |
| 42 | Significance of the largest scale CMB fluctuations in WMAP | Physical Review D | 2004 | 488 |
| 43 | Hartree-Fock Theory for Double Condensates | Physical Review Letters | 1997 | 462 |
| 44 | Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas | Physical Review Letters | 2001 | 455 |
| 45 | Using photoemission spectroscopy to probe a strongly interacting Fermi gas | Nature | 2008 | 448 |
| 46 | Broadband Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy for Sensitive and Rapid Molecular Detection | Science | 2006 | 447 |
| 47 | Resonant Magnetic Field Control of Elastic Scattering in ColdR85b | Physical Review Letters | 1998 | 444 |
| 48 | Nobel Lecture: Defining and measuring optical frequencies | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2006 | 444 |
| 49 | Optical arbitrary waveform generation | Nature Photonics | 2010 | 439 |
| 50 | A quantum network of clocks | Nature Physics | 2014 | 435 |
