Most cited papers in Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics
What are the most cited papers in Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics?
The most cited paper in Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics is "Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory" (S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov, 1998), with 9,403 citations. Next come "EXPGUI , a graphical user interface for GSAS" (9,279) and "On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization" (7,183).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 584 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov · Physics Letters B | May 1998 | 9,403 |
| 2 | EXPGUI , a graphical user interface for GSAS Brian H. Toby · Journal of Applied Crystallography | Apr 2001 | 9,279 |
| 3 | On Gauge Invariance and Vacuum Polarization Julian Schwinger · Physical Review | Jun 1951 | 7,183 |
| 4 | Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory Yakir Aharonov, David Böhm · Physical Review | Aug 1959 | 7,047 |
| 5 | New dimensions at a millimeter to a fermi and superstrings at a TeV Ignatios Antoniadis, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos et al. · Physics Letters B | Sep 1998 | 3,918 |
| 6 | Cosmological constant—the weight of the vacuum T Padmanabhan · Physics Reports | 19 May 2003 | 3,214 |
| 7 | Review of Particle Properties K. Hagiwara et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 2002 | 3,120 |
| 8 | Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians Carl M Bender · Reports on Progress in Physics | 30 May 2007 | 3,022 |
| 9 | Quantum electrodynamical corrections to the fine structure of helium Marvin Douglas, Norman M. Kroll · Annals of Physics | 1974 | 2,945 |
| 10 | Relativistic Quantum Mechanics James D. Bjorken, Sidney D. Drell, John E. Mansfield · Physics Today | Mar 1965 | 2,901 |
| 11 | Time-harmonic electromagnetic fields C.W. Hargens · Journal of the Franklin Institute | Jul 1961 | 2,863 |
| 12 | A Relativistic Equation for Bound-State Problems E. E. Salpeter, Hans Albrecht Bethe · Physical Review | 15 Dec 1951 | 2,684 |
| 13 | Two U(1)'s and ϵ charge shifts Bob Holdom · Physics Letters B | 1986 | 2,514 |
| 14 | Global Structure of the Kerr Family of Gravitational Fields Brandon Carter · Physical Review | 25 Oct 1968 | 2,329 |
| 15 | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases Tin-Lun Ho · Physics Today | Jun 2003 | 2,255 |
| 16 | Review of Particle Physics R. M. Barnett et al. · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 1996 | 2,195 |
| 17 | An Exact Quantum Theory of the Time-Dependent Harmonic Oscillator and of a Charged Particle in a Time-Dependent Electromagnetic Field Harry R. Lewis, W. B. Riesenfeld · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Aug 1969 | 1,830 |
| 18 | Group Theory and its Applications to Physical Problems Morton Hamermesh, Albert A. Mullin · American Journal of Physics | Oct 1962 | 1,742 |
| 19 | Quantum Mechanics of Fractional-Spin Particles Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 4 Oct 1982 | 1,725 |
| 20 | On the electrodynamics of continuous media В. Е. Пафомов · Bulletin of the Lebedev Physics Institute | Oct 2015 | 1,717 |
| 21 | Lorentz Invariance and the Gravitational Field T. W. B. Kibble · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Mar 1961 | 1,681 |
| 22 | Quantum Electrodynamics at Small Distances Murray Gell‐Mann, Francis E. Low · Physical Review | Sep 1954 | 1,647 |
| 23 | Classical Electrodynamics Arash Ahmadivand, Burak Gerislioglu, Zeinab Ramezani · Engineering materials | 25 Sep 2020 | 1,645 |
| 24 | Current-induced spin orientation of electrons in semiconductors M. I. Dyakonov, V. I. Perel · Physics Letters A | Jul 1971 | 1,624 |
| 25 | Bremsstrahlung, Synchrotron Radiation, and Compton Scattering of High-Energy Electrons Traversing Dilute Gases George R. Blumenthal, Robert J. Gould · Reviews of Modern Physics | Apr 1970 | 1,545 |
| 26 | Invariant Theoretical Interpretation of Interaction Ryôyû Utiyama · Physical Review | Mar 1956 | 1,537 |
| 27 | New developments in the Casimir effect M. Bordag, U. Mohideen, V.M. Mostepanenko · Physics Reports | Oct 2001 | 1,488 |
| 28 | Heavy-quark symmetry Matthias Neubert · Physics Reports | Sep 1994 | 1,476 |
| 29 | Methods of Mathematical Physics Richard Courant, David R. Hilbert, Theodor Teichmann · Physics Today | Nov 1962 | 1,419 |
| 30 | Degenerate Systems and Mass Singularities T. D. Lee, Michael Nauenberg · Physical Review | 23 Mar 1964 | 1,418 |
| 31 | The infrared divergence phenomena and high-energy processes Donald R. Yennie, Steven C. Frautschi, H. Suura · Annals of Physics | Jun 1961 | 1,366 |
| 32 | The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states Hua-Xing Chen, Wei Chen, Xiang Liu et al. · Physics Reports | 31 May 2016 | 1,301 |
| 33 | Magnetic Flux, Angular Momentum, and Statistics Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 26 Apr 1982 | 1,259 |
| 34 | Exactly massless quarks on the lattice Herbert Neuberger · Physics Letters B | 1998 | 1,219 |
| 35 | Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields Tai Tsun Wu, Chen Ning Yang · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Dec 1975 | 1,216 |
| 36 | An Operator Calculus Having Applications in Quantum Electrodynamics Richard P. Feynman · Physical Review | Oct 1951 | 1,197 |
| 37 | Particle spectrum in quantum field theory Alexander M. Polyakov · World Scientific series in 20th century physics | Aug 1996 | 1,189 |
| 38 | Perturbative Gauge Theory as a String Theory in Twistor Space Edward Witten · Communications in Mathematical Physics | 7 Oct 2004 | 1,138 |
| 39 | Electromagnetic wave theory Krzysztof Arkadiusz Michalski · Proceedings of the IEEE | Jun 1987 | 1,121 |
| 40 | Anomalous Ward Identities in Spinor Field Theories William A. Bardeen · Physical Review | 25 Aug 1969 | 1,107 |
| 41 | Quantum Electrodynamics A. I. Akhiezer, V.B. Berestetskii, R. A. Shaffer · American Journal of Physics | Nov 1965 | 1,088 |
| 42 | Causality and the Dispersion Relation: Logical Foundations John S. Toll · Physical Review | 15 Dec 1956 | 1,088 |
| 43 | Absence of Higher-Order Corrections in the Anomalous Axial-Vector Divergence Equation Stephen L. Adler, William A. Bardeen · Physical Review | 25 Jun 1969 | 1,076 |
| 44 | Investigating the near-criticality of the Higgs boson Dario Buttazzo, Giuseppe Degrassi, Pier Paolo Giardino et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | Dec 2013 | 1,066 |
| 45 | The Littlest Higgs Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andrew G Cohen, Emanuel Katz et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics | 12 Jul 2002 | 1,053 |
| 46 | Bose-Einstein Condensation with Internal Degrees of Freedom in Alkali Atom Gases Tetsuo Ohmi, Kazushige Machida · Journal of the Physical Society of Japan | 15 Jun 1998 | 1,050 |
| 47 | Heat kernel expansion: user's manual D.V. Vassilevich · Physics Reports | 31 Oct 2003 | 1,025 |
| 48 | The Next-to-Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Ulrich Ellwanger, Cyril Hugonie, Ana M. Teixeira · Physics Reports | 12 Jul 2010 | 999 |
| 49 | Group Theory and Its Application to the Quantum Mechanics of Atomic Spectra E. P. Wigner, U. Fano · American Journal of Physics | Apr 1960 | 967 |
| 50 | Target space duality in string theory Amit Giveon, Massimo Porrati, Eliezer Rabinovici · Physics Reports | Aug 1994 | 943 |
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