Ali Alavi

14.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
176 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Ali Alavi is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ali Alavi has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 72 papers in Materials Chemistry and 39 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Ali Alavi's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (92 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (42 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (28 papers). Ali Alavi is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (92 papers), Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies (42 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (28 papers). Ali Alavi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Ali Alavi's co-authors include George H. Booth, P. Hu, Angelos Michaelides, Zhi‐Pan Liu, A. Y. Lozovoi, David A. King, Pier Luigi Silvestrelli, Michael W. Finnis, Alex J. W. Thom and Thierry Deutsch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ali Alavi

170 papers receiving 9.3k citations

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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.

CO Oxidation on Pt(111): AnAb InitioDensity Functional Theory Study

1998 688 citations Ali Alavi et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Identification of General Linear Relationships between Activation Energies and Enthalpy Changes for Dissociation Reactions at Surfaces

2003 555 citations Ali Alavi et al. profile →
Fermion Monte Carlo without fixed nodes: A game of life, death, and annihilation in Slater determinant space

2009 517 citations George H. Booth, Ali Alavi et al. The Journal of Chemical Physics profile →
Catalytic Role of Gold in Gold-Based Catalysts: A Density Functional Theory Study on the CO Oxidation on Gold

2002 500 citations Ali Alavi et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ali Alavi United Kingdom	50	5.0k	4.7k	1.5k	1.3k	1.2k	176	9.4k
Andreas Görling Germany	64	7.2k 1.4×	7.6k 1.6×	1.3k 0.9×	3.6k 2.7×	1.0k 0.8×	309	14.5k
A.M. Bradshaw Germany	53	5.4k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	1.3k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	681 0.6×	204	8.6k
Jiří Klimeš Czechia	26	3.5k 0.7×	7.2k 1.5×	650 0.4×	3.2k 2.4×	1.1k 0.9×	44	10.2k
E. Wimmer United States	40	4.8k 1.0×	4.6k 1.0×	578 0.4×	1.8k 1.3×	511 0.4×	133	10.9k
Ari P. Seitsonen France	58	4.8k 1.0×	9.1k 1.9×	1.7k 1.2×	4.5k 3.3×	1.3k 1.0×	198	13.2k
K. Christmann Germany	48	5.6k 1.1×	5.5k 1.2×	2.1k 1.4×	1.3k 1.0×	800 0.6×	134	9.2k
R. N. Barnett United States	53	5.3k 1.1×	5.7k 1.2×	966 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	623 0.5×	160	10.9k
David R. Bowler United Kingdom	35	4.4k 0.9×	7.1k 1.5×	576 0.4×	4.0k 3.0×	1.0k 0.8×	151	11.0k
W. H. Weinberg United States	57	6.6k 1.3×	7.1k 1.5×	2.7k 1.8×	3.7k 2.7×	1.1k 0.9×	312	13.2k
Talat S. Rahman United States	50	3.9k 0.8×	4.8k 1.0×	702 0.5×	2.1k 1.6×	940 0.8×	314	8.6k

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Lambie, Stephanie, Daniel Kats, Denis Usvyat, & Ali Alavi. (2025). On the applicability of CCSD(T) for dispersion interactions in large conjugated systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 162(11). 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yilin, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Kuang Yu, et al.. (2025). Towards an accurate electronic structure of single photon emitters in hexagonal boron nitride. Physical Review Research. 7(1).

Alavi, Ali, et al.. (2024). Permutation symmetry in spin-adapted many-body wave functions. Faraday Discussions. 254(0). 261–294. 2 indexed citations

Kats, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Orbital optimisation in xTC transcorrelated methods. Faraday Discussions. 254(0). 382–401. 5 indexed citations

Ríos, Pablo López, et al.. (2023). Optimizing Jastrow factors for the transcorrelated method. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(22). 16 indexed citations

Ríos, Pablo López, et al.. (2023). Transcorrelated coupled cluster methods. II. Molecular systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 158(21). 11 indexed citations

Sokolov, Igor O., Werner Dobrautz, Hongjun Luo, Ali Alavi, & Ivano Tavernelli. (2023). Orders of magnitude increased accuracy for quantum many-body problems on quantum computers via an exact transcorrelated method. Physical Review Research. 5(2). 25 indexed citations

Ríos, Pablo López, et al.. (2023). xTC: An efficient treatment of three-body interactions in transcorrelated methods. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 159(1). 13 indexed citations

Dobrautz, Werner, et al.. (2023). Ferromagnetic domains in the large-U Hubbard model with a few holes: A full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo study. Physical review. B.. 107(6). 5 indexed citations

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Alavi, Ali, et al.. (2022). Importance-sampling FCIQMC: Solving weak sign-problem systems. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(12). 124111–124111. 2 indexed citations

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Luo, Hongjun & Ali Alavi. (2022). Perturbation calculation of the uniform electron gas with a transcorrelated Hamiltonian. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 157(7). 74105–74105. 4 indexed citations

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Alavi, Ali, et al.. (2022). Introduction of maltodextrin nanosponges as green extraction phases: Magnetic solid phase extraction of fluoroquinolones. Carbohydrate Polymers. 297. 119992–119992. 32 indexed citations

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Dobrautz, Werner, Oskar Weser, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Ali Alavi, & Giovanni Li Manni. (2021). Spin-Pure Stochastic-CASSCF via GUGA-FCIQMC Applied\nto Iron–Sulfur Clusters. Europe PMC (PubMed Central). 38 indexed citations

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Cohen, Aron J., et al.. (2021). Binding curve of the beryllium dimer using similarity-transformed FCIQMC: Spectroscopic accuracy with triple-zeta basis sets. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 155(1). 11102–11102. 21 indexed citations

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Dobrautz, Werner, et al.. (2021). Benchmark study of Nagaoka ferromagnetism by spin-adapted full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo. Physical review. B.. 104(23). 9 indexed citations

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Alavi, Ali, et al.. (2021). Population control bias and importance sampling in full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo. Physical review. B.. 103(15). 13 indexed citations

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Liao, Ke, et al.. (2021). Towards efficient and accurate ab initio solutions to periodic systems via transcorrelation and coupled cluster theory. Physical Review Research. 3(3). 29 indexed citations

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Luo, Hongjun & Ali Alavi. (2018). Combining the Transcorrelated Method with Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo: Application to the Homogeneous Electron Gas. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 14(3). 1403–1411. 51 indexed citations

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Dobrautz, Werner, et al.. (2018). Time Propagation and Spectroscopy of Fermionic Systems Using a Stochastic Technique. Physical Review Letters. 121(5). 56401–56401. 12 indexed citations

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Shepherd, James J., R. J. Needs, N. D. Drummond, et al.. (2013). Full Configuration Interaction Quantum Monte Carlo and Diffusion Monte Carlo: A Comparative Study of the 3D Homogeneous Electron Gas. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations

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