Most cited papers in Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
What are the most cited papers in Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics?
The most cited paper in Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics is "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines" (N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al., 1953), with 37,517 citations. Next come "Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath" (31,502) and "Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions" (23,918).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,986 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Jun 1953 | 37,517 |
| 2 | Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath Herman J. C. Berendsen, Johan P. M. Postma, Wilfred F. van Gunsteren et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Oct 1984 | 31,502 |
| 3 | Canonical dynamics: Equilibrium phase-space distributions William Graham Hoover · Physical Review A | Mar 1985 | 23,918 |
| 4 | The Properties of Gases and Liquids Robert Cortas Reid, THOMAS K. SHERWOOD, Robert E. Street · Physics Today | Apr 1959 | 14,172 |
| 5 | Methods of Theoretical Physics Philip Μ. Morse, Herman Feshbach, Edward L. Hill · American Journal of Physics | Sep 1954 | 13,258 |
| 6 | Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review | 15 May 1957 | 13,114 |
| 7 | Free Energy of a Nonuniform System. I. Interfacial Free Energy John W. Cahn, J. E. Hilliard · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Feb 1958 | 10,487 |
| 8 | A molecular dynamics method for simulations in the canonical ensemble Shūichi Nosé · Molecular Physics | 10 Jun 1984 | 10,260 |
| 9 | Computer "Experiments" on Classical Fluids. I. Thermodynamical Properties of Lennard-Jones Molecules Loup Verlet · Physical Review | 5 Jul 1967 | 9,534 |
| 10 | Statistical-Mechanical Theory of Irreversible Processes. I. General Theory and Simple Applications to Magnetic and Conduction Problems Ryogo Kubo · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | Jun 1957 | 9,526 |
| 11 | Density-Functional Theory for Time-Dependent Systems Erich Runge, Eberhard K. U. Gross · Physical Review Letters | 19 Mar 1984 | 8,942 |
| 12 | The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Karl John Friston · Nature reviews. Neuroscience | 13 Jan 2010 | 8,331 |
| 13 | Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/ f noise Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt A. Wiesenfeld · Physical Review Letters | 27 Jul 1987 | 7,701 |
| 14 | Novel Type of Phase Transition in a System of Self-Driven Particles Tamás Vicsek, András Czirók, Eshel Ben‐Jacob et al. · Physical Review Letters | 7 Aug 1995 | 7,543 |
| 15 | Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor Michael H. Anderson, J. R. Ensher, M. R. Matthews et al. · Science | 14 Jul 1995 | 7,479 |
| 16 | Review of Particle Physics S. Eidelman et al. · Physics Letters B | 29 Jun 2004 | 6,725 |
| 17 | A general method for numerically simulating the stochastic time evolution of coupled chemical reactions Daniel T. Gillespie · Journal of Computational Physics | Dec 1976 | 6,326 |
| 18 | Nonphysical sampling distributions in Monte Carlo free-energy estimation: Umbrella sampling Glenn M. Torrie, John P. Valleau · Journal of Computational Physics | Feb 1977 | 6,323 |
| 19 | Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers Peter Hänggi, Peter Talkner, Michal Borkovec · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1990 | 6,214 |
| 20 | Theory of open quantum systems Rui‐Xue Xu, YiJing Yan · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 9 May 2002 | 6,155 |
| 21 | Cooling, Heating, Generating Power, and Recovering Waste Heat with Thermoelectric Systems Lon E. Bell · Science | 12 Sep 2008 | 6,108 |
| 22 | Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries Michael M. Dion, Hanna A. Rydberg, Elsebeth Schröder et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 Jun 2004 | 5,682 |
| 23 | A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables. I David Böhm · Physical Review | 15 Jan 1952 | 5,580 |
| 24 | Nonequilibrium Equality for Free Energy Differences Christopher Jarzynski · Physical Review Letters | 7 Apr 1997 | 5,427 |
| 25 | The renormalization group and the ε expansion Kenneth G. Wilson · Physics Reports | Aug 1974 | 5,222 |
| 26 | Thin-film thermoelectric devices with high room-temperature figures of merit R. Venkatasubramanian, Edward Siivola, T.S. Colpitts et al. · Nature | Oct 2001 | 5,210 |
| 27 | The fluctuation-dissipation theorem Ryogo Kubo · Reports on Progress in Physics | 1966 | 5,136 |
| 28 | A New Equation of State for Carbon Dioxide Covering the Fluid Region from the Triple-Point Temperature to 1100 K at Pressures up to 800 MPa Roland Span, Wolfgang Wagner · Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data | Nov 1996 | 5,041 |
| 29 | Transport, Collective Motion, and Brownian Motion Hazime Mori · Progress of Theoretical Physics | Mar 1965 | 4,628 |
| 30 | Effect of contact deformations on the adhesion of particles Boris V Derjaguin, Veronika Müller, Yu. P. Toporov · Journal of Colloid and Interface Science | Nov 1975 | 4,575 |
| 31 | Renormalization group analysis of turbulence. I. Basic theory Victor Yakhot, Steven A. Orszag · Journal of Scientific Computing | 1986 | 4,271 |
| 32 | Enhancement of Thermoelectric Efficiency in PbTe by Distortion of the Electronic Density of States Joseph P. Heremans, Vladimir Jovovic, Eric S. Toberer et al. · Science | 24 Jul 2008 | 4,159 |
| 33 | Quantum states with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations admitting a hidden-variable model Reinhard F. Werner · Physical Review A | Oct 1989 | 4,149 |
| 34 | A computer simulation method for the calculation of equilibrium constants for the formation of physical clusters of molecules: Application to small water clusters William C. Swope, Hans Christian Andersen, Peter H. Berens et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 1982 | 4,090 |
| 35 | Convective Heat and Mass Transfer W. M. Kays, Jim H. Whitelaw · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Mar 1967 | 4,037 |
| 36 | Optimization of equilibrium geometries and transition structures H. Bernhard Schlegel · Journal of Computational Chemistry | Jun 1982 | 3,929 |
| 37 | Effect of quantum-well structures on the thermoelectric figure of merit L. D. Hicks, M. S. Dresselhaus · Physical review. B, Condensed matter | 15 May 1993 | 3,749 |
| 38 | Logical Reversibility of Computation C. H. Bennett · IBM Journal of Research and Development | Nov 1973 | 3,735 |
| 39 | Quantum tunnelling in a dissipative system A. O. Caldeira, A. J. Leggett · Annals of Physics | Sep 1983 | 3,672 |
| 40 | The mechanism of stochastic resonance Roberto Benzi, Alfonso Sutera, Angelo Vulpiani · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General | Nov 1981 | 3,654 |
| 41 | TESTING FOR SERIAL CORRELATION IN LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION. II James Durbin, G. S. Watson · Biometrika | 1951 | 3,650 |
| 42 | The Nose–Hoover thermostat D.J. Evans, Brad Lee Holian · The Journal of Chemical Physics | 15 Oct 1985 | 3,622 |
| 43 | Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines Udo Seifert · Reports on Progress in Physics | 20 Nov 2012 | 3,390 |
| 44 | Size effect on the melting temperature of gold particles Ph. Buffat, JP Borel · Physical Review A | Jun 1976 | 3,352 |
| 45 | Thermal Fluctuations of a Single-Domain Particle William Fuller Brown · Physical Review | Jun 1963 | 3,351 |
| 46 | Dissipative dynamical systems part I: General theory Jan C. Willems · Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis | 1972 | 3,262 |
| 47 | Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics. II E. T. Jaynes · Physical Review | 15 Oct 1957 | 3,253 |
| 48 | Thermalization and its mechanism for generic isolated quantum systems Marcos Rigol, Vanja Dunjko, Maxim Olshanii · Nature | 16 Apr 2008 | 3,168 |
| 49 | High-Temperature Equation of State by a Perturbation Method. I. Nonpolar Gases Robert W. Zwanzig · The Journal of Chemical Physics | Aug 1954 | 3,151 |
| 50 | Irreversibility and Generalized Noise Herbert B. Callen, Theodore A. Welton · Physical Review | Jul 1951 | 3,070 |
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