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Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Nonlinear Photonic Systems is a research topic within Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Science Explorer counts 31k research works in it since 1951. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the behavior of discrete solitons in nonlinear photonic systems, including their observation, stability, and interactions in various media such as optical lattices, waveguide arrays, and nematic liquid crystals. The studies also delve into the phenomena of modulational instability and the dynamics of solitons in granular chains.

  • Solitons
  • Nonlinear Photonic Systems
  • Discrete
  • Optical Lattices
  • Nonlocal Media
  • Waveguide Arrays
  • Spatial Solitons
  • Modulational Instability
  • Nematic Liquid Crystals
  • Granular Chains
Research works
31k
fractional, since 1951
In the world top 10%
3.1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Nonlinear Photonic Systems

Which countries lead Nonlinear Photonic Systems research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (2.1k and 447 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 2.1k works
  2. 2 United States 447 works
  3. 3 India 341 works
  4. 4 Russia 296 works
  5. 5 Saudi Arabia 272 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 228 works
  7. 7 Pakistan 220 works
  8. 8 Egypt 162 works
  9. 9 France 151 works
  10. 10 Japan 111 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: 49.0%United States: 10.2%India: 7.8%Russia: 6.8%6 others listed: 26.2%49%largest
China2,141 · 49.0%United States447 · 10.2%India341 · 7.8%Russia296 · 6.8%6 others listed1,145 · 26.2%

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

Which institutions lead Nonlinear Photonic Systems research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Nonlinear Photonic Systems research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 104 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 76 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 66 works
  4. 4 Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 63 works
  5. 5 Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsChina 48 works
  6. 6 China University of Mining and TechnologyChina 45 works
  7. 7 Taibah UniversitySaudi Arabia 43 works
  8. 8 University of the PunjabPakistan 40 works
  9. 9 Biruni UniversityTürkiye 38 works
  10. 10 Ningbo UniversityChina 36 works

Who are the leading researchers in Nonlinear Photonic Systems?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Nonlinear Photonic Systems include Kenji Watanabe, Donald G. Truhlar and Takashi Taniguchi.

  1. 1 Kenji Watanabe Japan 237k citations
  2. 2 Donald G. Truhlar United States 230k citations
  3. 3 Takashi Taniguchi Japan 227k citations
  4. 4 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  5. 5 Edward Hartley Sargent Canada 185k citations
  6. 6 Edward H. Witten United States 174k citations
  7. 7 Han Zhang China 161k citations
  8. 8 R. E. Frey United States 142k citations
  9. 9 Abdullah Mohamed Asiri Saudi Arabia 140k citations
  10. 10 James Hone United States 138k 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 Nonlinear Photonic Systems?

The most cited paper in Nonlinear Photonic Systems is "Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Having P T Symmetry" (Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher, 1998), with 6,760 citations. Next come "Linear methods in band theory" (6,557) and "Method for Solving the Korteweg-deVries Equation" (4,683).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Having P T Symmetry Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher · Physical Review Letters Open access 15 Jun 1998 6,760
2 Linear methods in band theory OK Andersen · Physical review. B, Solid state Open access 15 Oct 1975 6,557
3 Method for Solving the Korteweg-deVries Equation Clifford S. Gardner, J. M. Greene, Martin David Kruskal et al. · Physical Review Letters 6 Nov 1967 4,683
4 Two soluble models of an antiferromagnetic chain Elliott Lieb, T. D. Schultz, Daniel Charles Mattis · Annals of Physics Dec 1961 4,350
5 Nonlinear Field Theory of Large-Spin Heisenberg Antiferromagnets: Semiclassically Quantized Solitons of the One-Dimensional Easy-Axis Néel State F. D. M. Haldane · Physical Review Letters 11 Apr 1983 3,733
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Where is Nonlinear Photonic Systems research done?

The largest centres of Nonlinear Photonic Systems research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Moscow (Russia) and Cairo (Egypt). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zeytinburnu, Medina and Jinhua.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 299 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 155 works
  3. 3 MoscowRussia 134 works
  4. 4 CairoEgypt 96 works
  5. 5 TaiyuanChina 85 works
  6. 6 GuangzhouChina 83 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 82 works
  8. 8 NanjingChina 81 works
  9. 9 Xi'anChina 73 works
  10. 10 LahorePakistan 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZeytinburnuTR · 38.0 works122×
  2. MedinaSA · 46.7 works37×
  3. JinhuaCN · 64.0 works30×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Nonlinear Photonic Systems than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Nonlinear Photonic Systems?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Delhi, Henan Polytechnic University and Taibah University 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%60%mean 30.48%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of DelhiUniversity of DuhokHenan Polytechnic Un…Taibah 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
1University of DelhiIndia 75.455.0%7.2×25 +58.8%
2Henan Polytechnic UniversityChina 73.340.6%24.1×35 +299.4%
3Taibah UniversitySaudi Arabia 71.823.6%54.9×43 +25.3%
4University of DuhokIraq 70.249.9%30.3×15 +859.8%
5Obour InstitutesEgypt 62.438.6%306.0×11 +159.0%
6Zhejiang Normal UniversityChina 62.212.9%42.9×63 +95.3%
7Biruni UniversityTürkiye 62.118.0%147.3×38 +528.7%
8University of GujratPakistan 60.827.5%44.4×19 +530.1%
9Imam Mohammad ibn Saud Islamic UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.724.0%19.0×18 +319.0%
10COMSATS University IslamabadPakistan 58.814.7%23.9×28 +103.1%

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 Nonlinear Photonic Systems, country by country

Is Nonlinear Photonic Systems research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2022. The fastest-growing topics are Nonlinear Photonic Systems.

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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 Nonlinear Photonic Systems as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.024% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Nonlinear Photonic Systems0.022% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Nonlinear Photonic Systems 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%Nonlinear Photonic Systems9.8% 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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