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Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Advanced Condensed Matter Physics is a research topic within Condensed Matter Physics. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1951. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the properties and behavior of quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets, with a focus on topics such as spin-orbit coupling, Kitaev model, Mott insulators, spin dynamics, superconductivity, geometric frustration, magnetic monopoles, and topological order.

  • Quantum Spin Liquids
  • Frustrated Magnets
  • Spin-Orbit Coupling
  • Kitaev Model
  • Mott Insulators
  • Spin Dynamics
  • Superconductivity
  • Geometric Frustration
  • Magnetic Monopoles
  • Topological Order
Research works
51k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Advanced Condensed Matter Physics

Which countries lead Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.6k and 917 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.6k works
  2. 2 United States 917 works
  3. 3 Japan 597 works
  4. 4 India 536 works
  5. 5 Germany 385 works
  6. 6 Russia 323 works
  7. 7 France 229 works
  8. 8 United Kingdom 152 works
  9. 9 South Korea 131 works
  10. 10 Canada 97 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 31.6%United States: 18.6%Japan: 12.1%India: 10.9%6 others listed: 26.8%32%largest
China1,555 · 31.6%United States917 · 18.6%Japan597 · 12.1%India536 · 10.9%6 others listed1,317 · 26.8%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research, followed by Russian Academy of Sciences and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 298 works
  2. 2 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 170 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 99 works
  4. 4 Tohoku UniversityJapan 85 works
  5. 5 The University of TokyoJapan 78 works
  6. 6 Max Planck SocietyGermany 78 works
  7. 7 Oak Ridge National LaboratoryUnited States 65 works
  8. 8 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 59 works
  9. 9 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51 works
  10. 10 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Condensed Matter Physics include Zhong Lin Wang, John P. Perdew and Georg Kresse.

  1. 1 Zhong Lin Wang United States 491k citations
  2. 2 John P. Perdew United States 436k citations
  3. 3 Georg Kresse Austria 431k citations
  4. 4 Kostya S. Novoselov United Kingdom 331k citations
  5. 5 Andre K. Geim United Kingdom 315k citations
  6. 6 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
  7. 7 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  8. 8 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  9. 9 M. Weber Israel 267k citations
  10. 10 Yi Ping Cui United States 261k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics?

The most cited paper in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics is "Colloquium : Topological insulators" (M. Zahid Hasan, C. L. Kane, 2010), with 20,174 citations. Next come "Topological insulators and superconductors" (14,641) and "Possible highT c superconductivity in the Ba?La?Cu?O system" (14,328).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Colloquium : Topological insulators M. Zahid Hasan, C. L. Kane · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 8 Nov 2010 20,174
2 Topological insulators and superconductors Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 14 Oct 2011 14,641
3 Possible highT c superconductivity in the Ba?La?Cu?O system J. Georg Bednorz, K. Alex M�ller · The European Physical Journal B Jun 1986 14,328
4 Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices Yuan Cao, Valla Fatemi, Shiang Fang et al. · Nature Open access 5 Mar 2018 8,553
5 Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials Wilma Eerenstein, N. D. Mathur, James Floyd Scott · Nature Aug 2006 8,024
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Where is Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research done?

The largest centres of Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Hefei (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Didcot, Villigen and Wako.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 409 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 166 works
  3. 3 HefeiChina 122 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 113 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 100 works
  6. 6 MoscowRussia 97 works
  7. 7 SendaiJapan 85 works
  8. 8 DresdenGermany 84 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 68 works
  10. 10 YekaterinburgRussia 66 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. DidcotGB · 31.0 works64×
  2. VilligenCH · 30.2 works61×
  3. WakoJP · 30.7 works49×
  4. Oak RidgeUS · 63.3 works32×
  5. LemontUS · 22.1 works20×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Advanced Condensed Matter Physics?

Among universities, judged by research, Hangzhou Dianzi University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Southern University of Science and Technology score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 18.47%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Hangzhou Dianzi Univ…Southern University …University of Chines…Tohoku University
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Hangzhou Dianzi UniversityChina 68.543.7%8.6×15 +229.9%
2University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 60.018.1%6.0×51 +17.6%
3Southern University of Science and TechnologyChina 58.720.3%8.4×23 +53.1%
4Tohoku UniversityJapan 57.52.7%24.3×85 +94.1%
5Stanford UniversityUnited States 56.418.9%4.1×32 -0.2%
6The University of TokyoJapan 55.310.3%11.9×78 -23.1%
7Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 55.125.4%15.3×11 +17.0%
8University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 54.114.1%7.5×46 +65.3%
9University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States 53.418.9%12.7×21 -3.2%
10Nanjing UniversityChina 52.112.3%9.0×44 +16.2%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics, country by country

Is Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Advanced Condensed Matter Physics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.027% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Advanced Condensed Matter Physics0.021% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Advanced Condensed Matter Physics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Advanced Condensed Matter Physics9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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