A. Alan Middleton

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
47 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

A. Alan Middleton is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. Alan Middleton has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in A. Alan Middleton's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (36 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (12 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (11 papers). A. Alan Middleton is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (36 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (12 papers) and Material Dynamics and Properties (11 papers). A. Alan Middleton collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Israel. A. Alan Middleton's co-authors include Ofer Biham, Dov Levine, Ned S. Wingreen, Daniel S. Fisher, M. Cristina Marchetti, Chao Tang, Pierre Le Doussal, Onuttom Narayan, Kay Jörg Wiese and Chen Zeng and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

A. Alan Middleton

46 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

Self-organization and a dynamical transition in traffic-f... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1992 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Self-organization and a dynamical transition in traffic-flow models
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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. Alan Middleton United States 26 1.4k 619 542 449 448 47 2.5k
Macoto Kikuchi Japan 22 705 0.5× 336 0.5× 357 0.7× 183 0.4× 751 1.7× 78 2.0k
Hiizu Nakanishi Japan 23 713 0.5× 336 0.5× 317 0.6× 128 0.3× 67 0.1× 71 1.7k
Miguel A. Rodríguez Spain 25 791 0.6× 302 0.5× 343 0.6× 676 1.5× 231 0.5× 125 2.4k
Minoru Fukui Japan 21 139 0.1× 127 0.2× 300 0.6× 82 0.2× 1.2k 2.6× 75 2.1k
I. Morgenstern Germany 20 1.7k 1.2× 454 0.7× 468 0.9× 554 1.2× 20 0.0× 80 2.1k
Bernard Nienhuis Netherlands 20 978 0.7× 448 0.7× 454 0.8× 275 0.6× 70 0.2× 47 1.7k
R. B. Potts Australia 11 1.0k 0.7× 496 0.8× 299 0.6× 347 0.8× 102 0.2× 27 1.8k
Shin‐ichi Sasa Japan 20 272 0.2× 641 1.0× 236 0.4× 1.6k 3.7× 251 0.6× 65 2.1k
Carl P. Dettmann United Kingdom 23 220 0.2× 295 0.5× 111 0.2× 925 2.1× 30 0.1× 123 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (2015). Effective Hamiltonians of 2D Spin Glass Clusters. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2015. 1 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (2013). Numerically exact correlations and sampling in the two-dimensional Ising spin glass. Physical Review E. 87(4). 43303–43303. 7 indexed citations
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Huse, David A., et al.. (2011). Zero- and Low-Temperature Behavior of the Two-Dimensional±JIsing Spin Glass. Physical Review Letters. 107(4). 47203–47203. 40 indexed citations
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Doussal, Pierre Le, A. Alan Middleton, & Kay Jörg Wiese. (2009). Statistics of static avalanches in a random pinning landscape. Physical Review E. 79(5). 50101–50101. 43 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (2009). Exact algorithm for sampling the two-dimensional Ising spin glass. Physical Review E. 80(4). 46708–46708. 16 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, Pierre Le Doussal, & Kay Jörg Wiese. (2007). Measuring Functional Renormalization Group Fixed-Point Functions for Pinned Manifolds. Physical Review Letters. 98(15). 155701–155701. 43 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (2007). Irrational Mode Locking in Quasiperiodic Systems. Physical Review Letters. 98(14). 148001–148001. 5 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (2007). Matching Kasteleyn cities for spin glass ground states. Physical Review B. 76(22). 29 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan. (2004). Improved extremal optimization for the Ising spin glass. Physical Review E. 69(5). 55701–55701. 25 indexed citations
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Schwarz, J. M. & A. Alan Middleton. (2004). Percolation of unsatisfiability in finite dimensions. Physical Review E. 70(3). 35103–35103.
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Marchetti, Mauro, et al.. (2003). Driven Depinning of Strongly Disordered Media and Anisotropic Mean-Field Limits. Physical Review Letters. 91(10). 107002–107002. 13 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan. (2001). Critical Slowing Down in Polynomial Time Algorithms. Physical Review Letters. 88(1). 17202–17202. 28 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan. (2001). Energetics and geometry of excitations in random systems. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 63(6). 37 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, et al.. (1998). Collective Transport in Arrays of Small Metallic Dots. APS March Meeting Abstracts. 1 indexed citations
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Zeng, Chen, Jané Kondev, David D. McNamara, & A. Alan Middleton. (1998). Statistical Topography of Glassy Interfaces. Physical Review Letters. 80(1). 109–112. 20 indexed citations
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Marchetti, M. Cristina, et al.. (1996). Vortex dynamics and defects in simulated flux flow. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 54(17). 12427–12436. 115 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan & Daniel S. Fisher. (1993). Critical behavior of charge-density waves below threshold: Numerical and scaling analysis. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 47(7). 3530–3552. 72 indexed citations
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Mo, Dong-Chuan, M. Cristina Marchetti, A. Alan Middleton, & Valerii Vinokur. (1993). Elastic string in a random potential. Physical Review Letters. 70(5). 662–665. 60 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan. (1992). Thermal rounding of the charge-density-wave depinning transition. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 45(16). 9465–9468. 49 indexed citations
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Middleton, A. Alan, Daniel S. Fisher, & P. B. Littlewood. (1991). Middleton, Fisher, and Littlewood reply. Physical Review Letters. 67(27). 3873–3873. 1 indexed citations

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