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Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Quantum and electron transport phenomena is a research topic within Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Science Explorer counts 77k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers advances in semiconductor spintronics, quantum computing, and mesoscopic systems. Topics include coherent manipulation of electron spins, observation of spin-related effects, challenges for spin injection, Kondo physics, and quantum dot-based quantum computing. The research also explores the role of nuclear spins, electron correlations, and the development of new spin-based logic operations.

  • Spintronics
  • Semiconductor Quantum Dots
  • Electron Spin
  • Quantum Computing
  • Spin Injection
  • Kondo Effect
  • Nuclear Spin
  • Quantum Hall State
  • Coherent Manipulation
  • Mesoscopic Systems
Research works
77k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
7.5k
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
27% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Quantum and electron transport phenomena

Which countries lead Quantum and electron transport phenomena research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (1.7k and 1.6k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.7k works
  2. 2 United States 1.6k works
  3. 3 Germany 639 works
  4. 4 Japan 602 works
  5. 5 India 474 works
  6. 6 France 336 works
  7. 7 Russia 317 works
  8. 8 Italy 242 works
  9. 9 United Kingdom 239 works
  10. 10 Spain 188 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: 26.9%United States: 24.9%Germany: 10.1%Japan: 9.6%6 others listed: 28.5%27%largest
China1,693 · 26.9%United States1,566 · 24.9%Germany639 · 10.1%Japan602 · 9.6%6 others listed1,796 · 28.5%

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

Which institutions lead Quantum and electron transport phenomena research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Quantum and electron transport phenomena research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 191 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 147 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 139 works
  4. 4 Max Planck SocietyGermany 70 works
  5. 5 Helmholtz Association of German Research CentresGermany 70 works
  6. 6 The University of TokyoJapan 70 works
  7. 7 University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 61 works
  8. 8 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 57 works
  9. 9 National Institute for Materials ScienceJapan 57 works
  10. 10 Peking UniversityChina 53 works

Who are the leading researchers in Quantum and electron transport phenomena?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Quantum and electron transport phenomena 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 Kieron Burke United States 276k citations
  7. 7 Matthias Ernzerhof Canada 276k citations
  8. 8 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  9. 9 Wei Huang China 267k citations
  10. 10 Ben Zhong Tang China 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 Quantum and electron transport phenomena?

The most cited paper in Quantum and electron transport phenomena is "Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set" (Georg Kresse, Jürgen Furthmüller, 1996), with 123,939 citations. Next come "Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects" (64,427) and "Density-functional exchange-energy approximation with correct asymptotic behavior" (54,107).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Efficient iterative schemes for ab initio total-energy calculations using a plane-wave basis set Georg Kresse, Jürgen Furthmüller · Physical review. B, Condensed matter 15 Oct 1996 123,939
2 Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation Effects Walter Kohn, L. J. Sham · Physical Review Open access 15 Nov 1965 64,427
3 Density-functional exchange-energy approximation with correct asymptotic behavior Axel D. Becke · Physical Review A Sep 1988 54,107
4 QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials Paolo Giannozzi et al. · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter Open access Sep 2009 29,445
5 The electronic properties of graphene Antonio H. Castro Neto, Francisco Javier Esteban Guinea, Nuno M. R. Peres et al. · Reviews of Modern Physics Open access 14 Jan 2009 24,968
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Where is Quantum and electron transport phenomena research done?

The largest centres of Quantum and electron transport phenomena research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan), Hefei (China) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Chernogolovka, Wako and San Sebastian.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 426 works
  2. 2 TokyoJapan 183 works
  3. 3 HefeiChina 132 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 127 works
  5. 5 MoscowRussia 116 works
  6. 6 NanjingChina 106 works
  7. 7 ShanghaiChina 103 works
  8. 8 TsukubaJapan 94 works
  9. 9 CambridgeUnited States 80 works
  10. 10 SeoulSouth Korea 71 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ChernogolovkaRU · 34.6 works42×
  2. WakoJP · 37.0 works42×
  3. San SebastianES · 31.1 works28×
  4. RehovotIL · 34.9 works27×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Quantum and electron transport phenomena than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Quantum and electron transport phenomena?

Among universities, judged by research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Delft University of Technology and Weizmann Institute of Science 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 23.78%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Massachusetts Instit…California Institute…Delft University of …Weizmann Institute o…
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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
1Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States 82.928.0%11.1×57 +6.8%
2Delft University of TechnologyNetherlands 80.123.4%10.4×52 +4.0%
3Weizmann Institute of ScienceIsrael 71.819.2%33.4×35 +19.4%
4California Institute of TechnologyUnited States 71.025.1%9.5×25 +19.9%
5Yale UniversityUnited States 70.927.5%2.7×22 +23.5%
6Harvard UniversityUnited States 69.029.3%1.1×26 +2.6%
7Stanford UniversityUnited States 68.623.1%3.0×33 +23.9%
8University of California, BerkeleyUnited States 67.625.2%4.1×29 +22.7%
9University of BaselSwitzerland 66.017.9%8.6×24 +9.7%
10Princeton UniversityUnited States 65.219.1%12.1×40 -7.0%

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 Quantum and electron transport phenomena, country by country

Is Quantum and electron transport phenomena research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2007.

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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 Quantum and electron transport phenomena as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.034% in 2024.

still counting0.10%0.20%Quantum and electron transport phenomena0.030% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Quantum and electron transport phenomena 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%Quantum and electron transport phenomena9.6% 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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