Atsushi Higuchi

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
95 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Atsushi Higuchi is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Atsushi Higuchi has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 73 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 65 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 48 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Atsushi Higuchi's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (62 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (60 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (41 papers). Atsushi Higuchi is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (62 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (60 papers) and Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (41 papers). Atsushi Higuchi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Atsushi Higuchi's co-authors include George E. A. Matsas, Luís C. B. Crispino, Roberto Camporesi, Anthony Sudbery, Ednilton S. de Oliveira, Daniel Sudarsky, Hilary A. Carteret, Leonard Parker, Mir Faizal and Ian A. Morrison and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Atsushi Higuchi

93 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

The Unruh effect and its applications 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400 500
What are hit papers?

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. The Unruh effect and its applications
    2008 535 citations Luís C. B. Crispino, Atsushi Higuchi et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Atsushi Higuchi United Kingdom 32 2.2k 2.1k 1.5k 986 427 95 3.4k
Luis J. Garay Spain 27 1.9k 0.8× 1.7k 0.8× 1.7k 1.1× 1.7k 1.7× 233 0.5× 109 3.1k
Y. Jack Ng United States 27 1.2k 0.6× 1.8k 0.8× 694 0.5× 791 0.8× 72 0.2× 105 2.5k
N. D. Birrell United Kingdom 14 4.7k 2.1× 4.0k 1.9× 2.7k 1.8× 2.0k 2.0× 192 0.4× 19 5.9k
Ulvi Yurtsever United States 17 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 572 0.4× 576 0.6× 174 0.4× 32 1.9k
Jiliang Jing China 39 4.1k 1.8× 3.6k 1.7× 1.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 722 1.7× 314 5.3k
Esteban Calzetta Argentina 26 1.8k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 1.0× 202 0.5× 100 2.9k
V. B. Bezerra Brazil 35 1.9k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 2.5k 1.6× 1.7k 1.7× 65 0.2× 208 3.7k
Michael S. Morris United States 7 3.2k 1.5× 2.7k 1.3× 687 0.4× 903 0.9× 118 0.3× 11 3.7k
Cláus Lämmerzahl Germany 36 2.9k 1.3× 2.0k 1.0× 1.4k 0.9× 996 1.0× 160 0.4× 217 4.2k
Mukund Rangamani United States 33 3.0k 1.3× 3.3k 1.6× 812 0.5× 1.4k 1.4× 101 0.2× 83 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Atsushi Higuchi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Atsushi Higuchi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Atsushi Higuchi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Atsushi Higuchi based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Atsushi Higuchi. Atsushi Higuchi is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2024). Classical Larmor formula through the Unruh effect for uniformly accelerated electrons. Physical review. D. 109(2). 5 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2024). Semiclassical bremsstrahlung from a charge radially falling into a Schwarzschild black hole. Physical review. D. 109(8). 1 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2015). Removing the Faddeev-Popov zero modes from Yang-Mills theory in spacetimes with compact spatial sections. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(2). 2 indexed citations
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Crispino, Luís C. B., Sam R. Dolan, Atsushi Higuchi, & Ednilton S. de Oliveira. (2014). Inferring black hole charge from backscattered electromagnetic radiation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(6). 30 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, Donald Marolf, & Ian A. Morrison. (2011). Equivalence between Euclidean and in-in formalisms in de Sitter QFT. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(8). 58 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi. (2008). Tree-level vacuum instability in an interacting field theory in de Sitter spacetime. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2008). How to use retarded Green’s functions in de Sitter spacetime. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(8). 18 indexed citations
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Crispino, Luís C. B., Atsushi Higuchi, & George E. A. Matsas. (2008). The Unruh effect and its applications. Reviews of Modern Physics. 80(3). 787–838. 535 indexed citations breakdown →
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2006). Quantum radiation reaction and the Green’s function decomposition. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 74(12). 12 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Atsushi Higuchi. (2005). Topological censorship and chronology protection. Annalen der Physik. 518(1-2). 109–128. 6 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, et al.. (2003). One-Qubit Reduced States of a Pure Many-Qubit State: Polygon Inequalities. Physical Review Letters. 90(10). 107902–107902. 61 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi & Anthony Sudbery. (2000). How entangled can two couples get?. Physics Letters A. 273(4). 213–217. 127 indexed citations
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Crispino, Luís C. B., Atsushi Higuchi, & George E. A. Matsas. (1999). Scalar radiation emitted from a source rotating around a black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 17(1). 19–32. 40 indexed citations
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Camporesi, Roberto & Atsushi Higuchi. (1996). On the eigenfunctions of the Dirac operator on spheres and real hyperbolic spaces. Journal of Geometry and Physics. 20(1). 1–18. 162 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Atsushi Higuchi. (1995). Quantum field theory in Lorentzian universes from nothing. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(10). 5687–5697. 9 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi & Robert M. Wald. (1995). Applications of a new proposal for solving the ‘‘problem of time’’ to some simple quantum cosmological models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 51(2). 544–561. 23 indexed citations
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Bičák, Jiřı́, et al.. (1995). Gauge symmetry breakdown at the horizon of extreme black holes. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 12(2). 479–498. 1 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi & George E. A. Matsas. (1993). Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect in classical field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 48(2). 689–697. 35 indexed citations
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Higuchi, Atsushi, George E. A. Matsas, & Daniel Sudarsky. (1992). Bremssstrahlung and zero-energy Rindler photons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 45(10). R3308–R3311. 53 indexed citations
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Friedman, John L. & Atsushi Higuchi. (1990). State vectors in higher-dimensional gravity with kinematic quantum numbers of quarks and leptons. Nuclear Physics B. 339(2). 491–515. 4 indexed citations

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