Ben R. Mottelson

9.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Ben R. Mottelson is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ben R. Mottelson has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 38 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ben R. Mottelson's work include Nuclear physics research studies (38 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (22 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (15 papers). Ben R. Mottelson is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (38 papers), Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (22 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (15 papers). Ben R. Mottelson collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and United States. Ben R. Mottelson's co-authors include Aage Bohr, Adam Bohr, G. Breit, I. Hamamoto, A. Winther, Torben Huus, K. Alder, J. G. Valatin, David Pines and Sven Gösta Nilsson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ben R. Mottelson

81 papers receiving 6.9k 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.

Study of Nuclear Structure by Electromagnetic Excitation with Accelerated Ions

1956 1.4k citations Adam Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson et al. profile →
Nuclear Structure, Vol. 1

1970 1.3k citations Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson et al. Physics Today profile →
Possible Analogy between the Excitation Spectra of Nuclei and Those of the Superconducting Metallic State

1958 570 citations Adam Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson et al. Physical Review profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Nilsson Model and Sven Gösta Nilsson 2006 ·Physica Scripta ·Ben R. Mottelson	1
2	Quantum World Is Only Smoke and Mirrors 2004 ·Physics Today ·Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson, (unknown)	3
3	A personal view of some issues involved in the structure of nuclei with large neutron excess 2003 ·Comptes Rendus Physique ·I. Hamamoto, Ben R. Mottelson	8
4	Shell Structure and Pairing for Interacting Fermions in a Trap 2002 ·Physical Review Letters ·H. Heiselberg, Ben R. Mottelson	30
5	Weakly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensates under Rotation: Mean-Field versus Exact Solutions 2001 ·Physical Review Letters ·A.D. Jackson, G. M. Kavoulakis, Ben R. Mottelson, S. M. Reimann	46
6	Low Energy Collective Modes of a Superfluid Trapped Atomic Fermi Gas 2001 ·Physical Review Letters ·G. M. Bruun, Ben R. Mottelson	57
7	Low-lying excitations of a trapped rotating Bose-Einstein condensate 2001 ·Physical Review A ·G. M. Kavoulakis, Ben R. Mottelson, S. M. Reimann	11
8	Magnetic properties of quantum dots and rings 2001 ·The European Physical Journal D ·M. Manninen, M. Koskinen, S. M. Reimann, Ben R. Mottelson	25
9	Nuclear Structure 1998 ·Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	59
10	Nuclear Structure 1998 ·Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	170
11	ΔI = 4 structure in superdeformed rotational band - deformation with C_4v symmetry 1995 ·Physica Scripta ·I. Hamamoto, Ben R. Mottelson	13
12	The intrinsic line width of the plasmon resonances in metal microclusters at very low temperatures: quantal surface fluctuations 1991 ·Zeitschrift für Physik D Atoms Molecules and Clusters ·Jorge M. Pacheco, R.A. Broglia, Ben R. Mottelson	25
13	Elementarnye vidy vozbuzhdeniya v yadrakh 1976 ·Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk ·Ben R. Mottelson	2
14	Role of symmetry of the nuclear shape in rotational contributions to nuclear level densities 1974 ·OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·(unknown), Adam Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	10
15	Single-particle motion 1969 ·WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks ·Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	17
16	On the theory of rotational spectra 1963 ·Atomic Energy ·Adam Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	16
17	Quantization and Stability of Currents in Superconductors 1962 ·Physical Review ·Adam Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	21
18	The shape of the nuclear photo-resonance in deformed nuclei 1959 ·Nuclear Physics ·Ben R. Mottelson, Sven Gösta Nilsson	31
19	MOMENTS OF INERTIA OF ROTATING NUCLEI 1955 ·CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Aage Bohr, Ben R. Mottelson	4
20	ON THE FINE STRUCTURE IN ALPHA DECAY 1954 ·CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) ·Aage Bohr, Per Olof Fröman, Ben R. Mottelson	2

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