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Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Reviews Physics is 14. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Precise measurement of neutron lifetime	2828
Nonlocality with massive particles and mesoscopic systems	1415
Phonon-limited electronic transport through first principles	326
How to set up your first machine learning project in astronomy	262
The scientific article as a master finding system	243
Ab initio methods for superconductivity	236
Nobel 2004: freedom for quarks!	212
70 years of CERN	209
First-principles calculations for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction	204
Thermal conductivity of materials under pressure	198
Generation of large strains in 2D van der Waals materials at cryogenic temperatures	164
Ultrafast magneto-optical measurements for probing magnon–phonon interactions in nanomagnets	162
Bringing together science and fiction	148
Peer review in a changing world	147
How redundancy and distributed control are helping make robots autonomous	144
Blowing bubbles from a reservoir	138
Shapes of ice and rock	133
Fighting stereotypes	133
The physics of breakfast	131
Then and now	130
Tracking a long-duration gravitational-wave signal with a hidden Markov model	128
Challenges and opportunities in quantum machine learning for high-energy physics	127
Ultrathin waveguides for 2D photonic integrated circuits	123
How detection and imaging technologies could make us better humans	121
Light–matter interaction at atomic scales	117

When scientists disagree	114
Quantum Zeno effect at 45	114
Nature Reviews Physics turns five	113
Hares and hounds	112
Boxfish keels	98
How you can change gender stereotypes about physicists	97
Networks get more cliquey as they grow	91
Ten years of IceCube	85
Hydraulic spider legs	81
The long and winding road	77
Why we ask for synopses	77
Quantum rotations of nanoparticles	76
Materials discovery screening with pymatgen	75
Dual topological insulator found in superlattice	74
A 10 kg mechanical oscillator close to its motional ground state	74
Laser power stabilization via radiation pressure	72
Review of performance metrics of spin qubits in gated semiconducting nanostructures	72
Weaving smooth 3D shapes with curved ribbons	71
A century of Compton scattering	70
60 years of Landauer’s principle	70
Anomalies in particle physics and their implications for physics beyond the standard model	69
Machine learning as a tool in theoretical science	66
10 years of the quantum anomalous Hall effect	66
Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials	65
90 years of the Wigner crystal	65
A brief history of nonlinear excitations	64
Visual anemometry for physics-informed inference of wind	64
Liquid-metal experiments on geophysical and astrophysical phenomena	63
Tip-enhanced Raman scattering for atomic-scale spectroscopy and imaging	63
New physics from the polarized light of the cosmic microwave background	63
Characterization and control of non-Markovian quantum noise	62
Time irreversibility in active matter, from micro to macro	62
The Stern–Gerlach experiment at 100	61
Exascale image processing for next-generation beamlines in advanced light sources	61
Controlling water waves with artificial structures	59
Machine-and-data intelligence for synchrotron science	59
30 years of orbital angular momentum of light	58
Dequantizing algorithms to understand quantum advantage in machine learning	57
The thorium-229 low-energy isomer and the nuclear clock	57
Author Correction: High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	57
Graph neural networks at the Large Hadron Collider	57
Learning quantum systems	57
Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics	57
Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test	55
Machine learning and density functional theory	55
Magnetic resonance elastography from fundamental soft-tissue mechanics to diagnostic imaging	54
Hydride superconductivity is here to stay	51
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy	51
Photocurrent as a multiphysics diagnostic of quantum materials	50
Experimental signatures of the chiral anomaly in Dirac–Weyl semimetals	46

The superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition and the birth of experimental quantum simulation	45
Magnetic reconnection in the era of exascale computing and multiscale experiments	44
A new frontier for Hopfield networks	44
Controlling complex networks with complex nodes	41
Making clean electrical contacts on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides	41
Amyloid formation as a protein phase transition	39
Topological quantum materials for energy conversion and storage	38
A concise guide to modelling the physics of embodied intelligence in soft robotics	38
Graphene nanoribbons for quantum electronics	38
Publisher Correction: Resonant anomalous X-ray reflectivity for revealing ion distributions near electrodes	36
Author Correction: Optimizing the dynamic pair distribution function method for inelastic neutron spectrometry	35
Too much efficiency leads to delays	35
On scientific understanding with artificial intelligence	33
Science in the age of large language models	33
A snapshot of 2023	31
Big science in India	30
Physics words with surprising origins	29
Economics lessons	28
Dipolar many-body complexes and their interactions in stacked 2D heterobilayers	28
From physics to art and back	28
Rigor with machine learning from field theory to the Poincaré conjecture	27
Learning quantum states from their classical shadows	27
A model for changing land use	26
A fully connected Ising machine using standard technology	26
In fusion, collaboration is both a necessity and an opportunity	25
The difficult but necessary role of political engagement for scientists	24
High-accuracy electronic structure calculations with QMCPACK	24
An AI pipeline to investigate the binding properties of poorly annotated molecules	23
Tree of light	23
100 Years of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics	22
Bird nest packing	22
How multiscale curvature couples forces to cellular functions	22
Physicists and the first computing revolution	22
Forging personal connections with science through storytelling	22
What we’ve learned about flying less for conferences	20
Diffusion metamaterials	20
How to teach climate change in a physics classroom	20
Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation	20
Meet the Nature Reviews Physics 2023 team	19
The early days of Monte Carlo methods	19
Probing surface motion above ambient temperature with helium spin-echo spectroscopy	19
Navigating an incomplete network using a map	19
The spectrum of early career physics	18
Why review Reviews	18
Characterizing gravitational-wave sources with likelihood reweighting	17
Should artificial intelligence be interpretable to humans?	17
Neutrino physics over the two decades since the first SNO result	17
A new century of quantum physics	17
Discovery of the odderon	17
Nobel 1983: chemistry and evolution of stars	16
Dynamics of electricity exchange markets	16
Nobel 1923: determining the charge of the electron	15
Automated reproducible workflows and data provenance with AiiDA	15
Nobel 1943: magnetic moment of the proton	15
Controlling light with air	14
Engagement opportunities on the continuum between science and policy	14
To reform peer review, we need to understand its past	14
50 years of Penrose tilings	14
Physics does not exist in a vacuum	14
How technology made condensed matter physics boring	14