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Researcher · University of Vienna · Austria

Walter Thirring

Walter Thirring publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, on topics such as Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Applications and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems.

OpenAlex
World rank
#63,396
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Austria
#572
of 10,230
Works
111
Citations
667
Citations per work
6.0

What does Walter Thirring research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 23.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 20.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 7.7%Mathematical Physics: 4.6%other fields: 43.9%24%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics23.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics20.0%Astronomy and Astrophysics7.7%Mathematical Physics4.6%other fields43.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics24% of their works
  2. 2Statistical and Nonlinear Physics20% of their works
  3. 3Astronomy and Astrophysics8% of their works
  4. 4Mathematical Physics5% of their works
  5. 5Condensed Matter Physics4% of their works
  6. 6Economics and Econometrics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Walter Thirring's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Information, Entanglement, Fluctuation Theorems, Stochastic Thermodynamics, Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Lagrangian Coherent Structures and Quantum Chaos.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Information152 topics
  2. Entanglement132 topics
  3. Fluctuation Theorems131 topic
  4. Stochastic Thermodynamics131 topic
  5. Bell Inequality101 topic
  6. Decoherence101 topic
  7. Lagrangian Coherent Structures71 topic
  8. Quantum Chaos71 topic
  9. Relativity61 topic
  10. Unified Field Theories61 topic
  11. Quantum Simulation51 topic
  12. Ultracold Gases51 topic
  13. Casimir Effect41 topic
  14. Quantum Vacuum41 topic
  15. Many-Body Localization31 topic
  16. Protein31 topic
  17. Quantum Thermalization31 topic
  18. Structure31 topic

Where does Walter Thirring work?

Walter Thirring's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Vienna, Austria.

How many publications and citations does Walter Thirring have?

Science Explorer counts 111 works and 667 citations for Walter Thirring, ranking #63,396 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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