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| Direct frequency comb spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet | Nature | 2012 | 280 |
| A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon | Nature | 2012 | 259 |
| Ultrafast magnetization enhancement in metallic multilayers driven by superdiffusive spin current | Nature Communications | 2012 | 249 |
| A MEASUREMENT OF SECONDARY COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES WITH TWO YEARS OF SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 222 |
| Time-domain classification of charge-density-wave insulators | Nature Communications | 2012 | 195 |
| A MEASUREMENT OF GRAVITATIONAL LENSING OF THE MICROWAVE BACKGROUND USING SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE DATA | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 193 |
| Probing the timescale of the exchange interaction in a ferromagnetic alloy | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 186 |
| Long-lived dipolar molecules and Feshbach molecules in a 3D optical lattice | Physical Review Letters | 2012 | 180 |
| Selection of the Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site | Space Science Reviews | 2012 | 173 |
| Nano-optical imaging and spectroscopy of order, phases, and domains in complex solids | Advances in Physics | 2012 | 167 |
| A reconnection switch to trigger gamma-ray burst jet dissipation | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society | 2012 | 165 |
| Strain and temperature dependence of the insulating phases of VO2 near the metal-insulator transition | Physical Review B | 2012 | 156 |
| Thermal infrared near-field spectroscopy | Nano Letters | 2012 | 151 |
| Evaporative cooling of the dipolar hydroxyl radical | Nature | 2012 | 142 |
| Light on the Tip of a Needle: Plasmonic Nanofocusing for Spectroscopy on the Nanoscale | Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters | 2012 | 141 |
| A massive, cooling-flow-induced starburst in the core of a luminous cluster of galaxies | Nature | 2012 | 131 |
| Comparison of two independent Sr optical clocks with 1×10(-17) stability at 10(3) s | Physical Review Letters | 2012 | 130 |
| Use of research-based instructional strategies in introductory physics: Where do faculty leave the innovation-decision process? | Physical Review Physics Education Research | 2012 | 124 |
| Origin of the three-body parameter universality in Efimov physics | Physical Review Letters | 2012 | 122 |
| Initialization by measurement of a superconducting quantum bit circuit | Physical Review Letters | 2012 | 118 |
| Demonstration of on-sky calibration of astronomical spectra using a 25 GHz near-IR laser frequency comb | Optics Express | 2012 | 116 |
| Feedback control of a solid-state qubit using high-fidelity projective measurement | Physical Review Letters | 2012 | 116 |
| COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND CONSTRAINTS ON THE DURATION AND TIMING OF REIONIZATION FROM THE SOUTH POLE TELESCOPE | Astrophysical Journal | 2012 | 116 |
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