| Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms WD Phillips Reviews of Modern Physics 70 (3), 721, 1998 | 2661 | 1998 |
| Generating solitons by phase engineering of a Bose-Einstein condensate J Denschlag, JE Simsarian, DL Feder, CW Clark, LA Collins, J Cubizolles, ... Science 287 (5450), 97-101, 2000 | 1710 | 2000 |
| Observation of atoms laser cooled below the Doppler limit PD Lett, RN Watts, CI Westbrook, WD Phillips, PL Gould, HJ Metcalf Physical review letters 61 (2), 169, 1988 | 1504 | 1988 |
| Laser deceleration of an atomic beam WD Phillips, H Metcalf Physical Review Letters 48 (9), 596, 1982 | 1323 | 1982 |
| First observation of magnetically trapped neutral atoms AL Migdall, JV Prodan, WD Phillips, TH Bergeman, HJ Metcalf Physical review letters 54 (24), 2596, 1985 | 989 | 1985 |
| Optical molasses PD Lett, WD Phillips, SL Rolston, CE Tanner, RN Watts, CI Westbrook JOSA B 6 (11), 2084-2107, 1989 | 916 | 1989 |
| A well-collimated quasi-continuous atom laser EW Hagley, L Deng, M Kozuma, J Wen, K Helmerson, SL Rolston, ... Science 283 (5408), 1706-1709, 1999 | 757 | 1999 |
| Bose-Einstein condensate in a uniform light-induced vector potential YJ Lin, RL Compton, AR Perry, WD Phillips, JV Porto, IB Spielman Physical Review Letters 102 (13), 130401, 2009 | 715 | 2009 |
| Quantized rotation of atoms from photons with orbital angular momentum MF Andersen, C Ryu, P Cladé, V Natarajan, A Vaziri, K Helmerson, ... Physical review letters 97 (17), 170406, 2006 | 712 | 2006 |
| Four-wave mixing with matter waves L Deng, EW Hagley, J Wen, M Trippenbach, Y Band, PS Julienne, ... Nature 398 (6724), 218-220, 1999 | 700 | 1999 |
| Coherent splitting of Bose-Einstein condensed atoms with optically induced Bragg diffraction M Kozuma, L Deng, EW Hagley, J Wen, R Lutwak, K Helmerson, ... Physical Review Letters 82 (5), 871, 1999 | 684 | 1999 |
| Observation of persistent flow of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a toroidal trap C Ryu, MF Andersen, P Clade, V Natarajan, K Helmerson, WD Phillips Physical Review Letters 99 (26), 260401, 2007 | 664 | 2007 |
| Superflow in a toroidal Bose-Einstein condensate: an atom circuit with a tunable weak link A Ramanathan, KC Wright, SR Muniz, M Zelan, WT Hill III, CJ Lobb, ... Physical review letters 106 (13), 130401, 2011 | 641 | 2011 |
| Controlled exchange interaction between pairs of neutral atoms in an optical lattice M Anderlini, PJ Lee, BL Brown, J Sebby-Strabley, WD Phillips, JV Porto Nature 448 (7152), 452-456, 2007 | 604 | 2007 |
| A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice JH Denschlag, JE Simsarian, H Häffner, C McKenzie, A Browaeys, D Cho, ... Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 35 (14), 3095, 2002 | 571 | 2002 |
| Mott-insulator transition in a two-dimensional atomic Bose gas IB Spielman, WD Phillips, JV Porto Physical Review Letters 98 (8), 080404, 2007 | 542 | 2007 |
| Observation of reduced three-body recombination in a correlated 1D degenerate Bose gas BL Tolra, KM O’hara, JH Huckans, WD Phillips, SL Rolston, JV Porto Physical review letters 92 (19), 190401, 2004 | 539 | 2004 |
| Observation of quantized motion of Rb atoms in an optical field PS Jessen, C Gerz, PD Lett, WD Phillips, SL Rolston, RJC Spreeuw, ... Physical review letters 69 (1), 49, 1992 | 508 | 1992 |
| Laser cooling of cesium atoms below 3 μK C Salomon, J Dalibard, WD Phillips, A Clairon, S Guellati Europhysics Letters 12 (8), 683, 1990 | 461 | 1990 |
| Dynamical tunnelling of ultracold atoms WK Hensinger, H Häffner, A Browaeys, NR Heckenberg, K Helmerson, ... Nature 412 (6842), 52-55, 2001 | 451 | 2001 |
