Benjamin Hunt

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Benjamin Hunt is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin Hunt has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 21 papers in Materials Chemistry and 7 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Benjamin Hunt's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (14 papers), Graphene research and applications (13 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (10 papers). Benjamin Hunt is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (14 papers), Graphene research and applications (13 papers) and 2D Materials and Applications (10 papers). Benjamin Hunt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Benjamin Hunt's co-authors include Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, R. C. Ashoori, Pablo Jarillo‐Herrero, Andrea F. Young, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Matthew Yankowitz, Brian J. LeRoy, Pilkyung Moon and Mikito Koshino and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin Hunt

30 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van ... 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 400 800 1.2k
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. Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure
    2013 1.3k citations Benjamin Hunt, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin Hunt United States 15 2.0k 1.4k 468 468 303 32 2.6k
Nityan Nair United States 12 1.7k 0.9× 1.4k 1.0× 202 0.4× 630 1.3× 363 1.2× 20 2.4k
Toshiya Ideue Japan 22 1.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 1.1k 2.3× 826 1.8× 704 2.3× 35 2.9k
I. S. Beloborodov United States 16 748 0.4× 725 0.5× 531 1.1× 496 1.1× 352 1.2× 64 1.5k
Xiangang Wan China 18 1.4k 0.7× 966 0.7× 330 0.7× 532 1.1× 397 1.3× 44 2.0k
A. M. Kalashnikova Russia 22 630 0.3× 1.1k 0.8× 421 0.9× 885 1.9× 892 2.9× 67 1.9k
Benjamin Sacépé France 21 1.1k 0.6× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 2.4× 376 0.8× 433 1.4× 46 2.1k
Steve M. Young United States 12 1.4k 0.7× 720 0.5× 162 0.3× 826 1.8× 762 2.5× 24 1.9k
A. Yurgens Sweden 29 932 0.5× 884 0.6× 1.5k 3.3× 684 1.5× 870 2.9× 106 2.6k
Paola Barbara United States 23 1.1k 0.6× 709 0.5× 322 0.7× 858 1.8× 113 0.4× 59 1.9k
Sophie Collin France 18 564 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 566 1.2× 501 1.1× 616 2.0× 70 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin Hunt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin Hunt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin Hunt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin Hunt 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 Benjamin Hunt. Benjamin Hunt 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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Ma, Lei, Yuze Meng, Bo Chen, et al.. (2025). Anomalously enhanced diffusivity of moiré excitons via manipulating the interplay with correlated electrons. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10569–10569.
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Meng, Yuze, Lei Ma, Yan Li, et al.. (2025). Strong-interaction-driven quadrupolar-to-dipolar exciton transitions in a trilayer moiré superlattice. Nature Photonics. 19(11). 1219–1224. 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Dengyu, John Hayden, Ian P. Mercer, et al.. (2024). Nanoscale Ferroelectric Programming of van der Waals Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 24(51). 16231–16238. 2 indexed citations
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Telford, Evan J., Avishai Benyamini, Ian M. Kennedy, et al.. (2022). Tunneling Spectroscopy of Two-Dimensional Materials Based on Via Contacts. Nano Letters. 22(22). 8941–8948. 5 indexed citations
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Barrera, Sergio C. de la, Yang Gao, Jiaqiang Yan, et al.. (2021). Direct measurement of ferroelectric polarization in a tunable semimetal. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5298–5298. 65 indexed citations
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Sun, Zheng, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, et al.. (2021). Charged Bosons Made of Fermions in Bilayer Structures with Strong Metallic Screening. Nano Letters. 21(18). 7669–7675. 14 indexed citations
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Xu, Ke, Maokun Wu, Benjamin Hunt, et al.. (2019). Molecularly Thin Electrolyte for All Solid-State Nonvolatile Two-Dimensional Crystal Memory. Nano Letters. 19(12). 8911–8919. 8 indexed citations
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Barrera, Sergio C. de la, Michael Sinko, Devashish Gopalan, et al.. (2018). Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin–orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1427–1427. 299 indexed citations
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Zibrov, Alexander, T. Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, et al.. (2017). Direct measurement of discrete valley and orbital quantum numbers in bilayer graphene. Nature. 3 indexed citations
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Hunt, Benjamin, Alexander Zibrov, T. Taniguchi, et al.. (2016). Competing valley, spin, and orbital symmetry breaking in bilayer graphene. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Jang, Joonho, Benjamin Hunt, L. N. Pfeiffer, Kenneth West, & R. C. Ashoori. (2016). Sharp tunnelling resonance from the vibrations of an electronic Wigner crystal. Nature Physics. 13(4). 340–344. 57 indexed citations
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Sanchez-Yamagishi, Javier, Jason Luo, Andrea F. Young, et al.. (2016). Helical edge states and fractional quantum Hall effect in a graphene electron–hole bilayer. Nature Nanotechnology. 12(2). 118–122. 74 indexed citations
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Fatemi, Valla, Benjamin Hunt, Hadar Steinberg, et al.. (2014). Electrostatic Coupling between Two Surfaces of a Topological Insulator Nanodevice. Physical Review Letters. 113(20). 206801–206801. 27 indexed citations
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Hunt, Benjamin, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Andrea F. Young, et al.. (2013). Massive Dirac Fermions and Hofstadter Butterfly in a van der Waals Heterostructure. Science. 340(6139). 1427–1430. 1267 indexed citations breakdown →
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Young, Andrea F., Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Benjamin Hunt, et al.. (2013). Tunable symmetry breaking and helical edge transport in a graphene quantum spin Hall state. Nature. 505(7484). 528–532. 226 indexed citations
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Gadagkar, Vikram, Benjamin Hunt, Minoru Yamashita, et al.. (2012). Generalized Rotational Susceptibility Studies of Solid 4He. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 169(3-4). 180–196. 1 indexed citations
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Hunt, Benjamin, et al.. (2009). A `Superglass' State in Solid $^{4}$He. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Robertazzi, R. P., Benjamin Hunt, & R. A. Buhrman. (1987). Coupled tunnel junction experiments at the gap frequency. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 23(2). 1271–1274. 7 indexed citations
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Hunt, Benjamin, R. P. Robertazzi, & R. A. Buhrman. (1985). Gap suppression devices. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 21(2). 717–720. 8 indexed citations
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Hunt, Benjamin & R. A. Buhrman. (1983). Three terminal, non-equilibrium quasiparticle device experiments with submicron tunnel junctions. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. 19(3). 1155–1159. 14 indexed citations

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