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. 18.2% 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%
- 9.3k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 18.2% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
- +7% the tick is no change
Which countries lead Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research?
By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.4k and 868 works in 2022–2025).
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 China 1.4k works
- 2 United States 868 works
- 3 Japan 565 works
- 4 India 514 works
- 5 Germany 362 works
- 6 Russia 315 works
- 7 France 219 works
- 8 United Kingdom 145 works
- 9 South Korea 123 works
- 10 Canada 93 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.
Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.
Which institutions lead Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research?
By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research, followed by Tohoku University and The University of Tokyo.
By volume, 2022–2025
- 1 Chinese Academy of Sciences China 84 works
- 2 Tohoku University Japan 81 works
- 3 The University of Tokyo Japan 74 works
- 4 Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States 60 works
- 5 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China 49 works
- 6 University of Science and Technology of China China 44 works
- 7 Nanjing University China 41 works
- 8 Institute of Physics China 36 works
- 9 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France 36 works
- 10 Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures China 32 works
Who are the leading researchers in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Advanced Condensed Matter Physics include Georg Kresse, David Vanderbilt and Kenji Watanabe.
- 1 Georg Kresse 24k citations
- 2 David Vanderbilt 7.3k citations
- 3 Kenji Watanabe 6.4k citations
- 4 Takashi Taniguchi 6.2k citations
- 5 John B. Goodenough 6.2k citations
- 6 Philip W. Anderson 5.8k citations
- 7 Fujio Izumi 5.8k citations
- 8 David J. Singh 5.1k citations
- 9 Huan Liu 4.9k citations
- 10 Jean‐Marie Tarascon 4.9k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research done?
The largest centres of Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025
Where it is the local speciality
- DidcotGB · 29.8 works64×
- VilligenCH · 29.1 works60×
- WakoJP · 29.6 works48×
- Oak RidgeUS · 59.9 works31×
- LemontUS · 21.6 works20×
Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Advanced Condensed Matter Physics than the world average.
Where is the best place to study Advanced Condensed Matter Physics?
Among universities, judged by research, Southern University of Science and Technology, Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology and The University of Tokyo 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.
One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Southern University of Science and Technology China | 65.0 | 35.6% | 7.2× | 22 | +674.0% |
| 2 | Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology Germany | 61.2 | 39.7% | 104.5× | 8 | — |
| 3 | The University of Tokyo Japan | 61.0 | 20.6% | 11.1× | 74 | -1.4% |
| 4 | Renmin University of China China | 61.0 | 34.8% | 8.8× | 16 | +134.2% |
| 5 | Weizmann Institute of Science Israel | 60.4 | 42.5% | 14.1× | 11 | -2.3% |
| 6 | ShanghaiTech University China | 58.8 | 36.9% | 12.2× | 13 | — |
| 7 | University of Tennessee at Knoxville United States | 58.0 | 32.4% | 9.5× | 21 | +39.5% |
| 8 | University of California, Santa Barbara United States | 57.7 | 32.3% | 11.6× | 21 | +4.0% |
| 9 | University of Chinese Academy of Sciences China | 57.6 | 23.1% | 5.3× | 49 | +204.0% |
| 10 | Hefei University China | 54.8 | 30.0% | 25.0× | 14 | — |
Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.
Is Advanced Condensed Matter Physics research growing?
Output in 2018–2022 was 7% higher than in 2013–2017, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Advanced Condensed Matter Physics.
The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.
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.