Bill Sutherland

11.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
72 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Bill Sutherland is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Sutherland has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 25 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 17 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Bill Sutherland's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (26 papers), Quantum many-body systems (21 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (16 papers). Bill Sutherland is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (26 papers), Quantum many-body systems (21 papers) and Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (16 papers). Bill Sutherland collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and United Kingdom. Bill Sutherland's co-authors include B. Sriram Shastry, Mahito Kohmoto, Chao Tang, Kazumoto Iguchi, P. C. Taylor, W. Gellermann, Neelam Gupta, Chongming Yang, Changqing Yang and Rudolf A. Römer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Bill Sutherland

70 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

Model for a multicomponent quantum system 1971 2026 1989 2007 1975 1971 1981 1987 1990 200 400 600
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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. Model for a multicomponent quantum system
    1975 698 citations Bill Sutherland profile →
  2. Exact Results for a Quantum Many-Body Problem in One Dimension
    1971 610 citations Bill Sutherland Physical review. A, General physics profile →
  3. Exact ground state of a quantum mechanical antiferromagnet
    1981 605 citations B. Sriram Shastry, Bill Sutherland profile →
  4. Critical wave functions and a Cantor-set spectrum of a one-dimensional quasicrystal model
    1987 576 citations Mahito Kohmoto, Bill Sutherland et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
  5. Twisted boundary conditions and effective mass in Heisenberg-Ising and Hubbard rings
    1990 470 citations B. Sriram Shastry, Bill Sutherland Physical Review Letters profile →
  6. Quantum Many-Body Problem in One Dimension: Ground State
    1971 469 citations Bill Sutherland Journal of Mathematical 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
Bill Sutherland United States 35 5.2k 3.6k 2.0k 1.6k 1.5k 72 8.1k
M. P. Nightingale United States 31 6.9k 1.3× 4.3k 1.2× 1.2k 0.6× 507 0.3× 2.4k 1.5× 74 9.1k
Andreas W. W. Ludwig United States 42 8.9k 1.7× 5.0k 1.4× 1.3k 0.6× 855 0.5× 1.6k 1.1× 80 10.3k
Henk W. J. Blöte Netherlands 40 2.9k 0.6× 5.6k 1.5× 1.6k 0.8× 572 0.4× 1.1k 0.7× 182 6.9k
Franz Wegner Germany 39 5.0k 1.0× 5.1k 1.4× 1.8k 0.9× 329 0.2× 901 0.6× 87 8.3k
Ingo Peschel Germany 35 4.1k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 369 0.2× 520 0.3× 87 5.5k
Mahito Kohmoto Japan 41 9.5k 1.8× 3.9k 1.1× 1.8k 0.9× 488 0.3× 5.3k 3.4× 134 12.5k
J. Moser Germany 34 3.1k 0.6× 925 0.3× 2.6k 1.3× 1.1k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 133 8.0k
N. Read United States 53 9.8k 1.9× 8.7k 2.4× 560 0.3× 482 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 108 12.5k
P. Wiegmann United States 42 3.6k 0.7× 3.3k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 198 0.1× 107 6.3k
Michael N. Barber Australia 31 2.4k 0.5× 3.1k 0.9× 1.0k 0.5× 565 0.4× 697 0.5× 77 4.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sutherland, Bill. (2000). Interacting spin systems exhibiting spin plateaus and gaps. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 62(17). 11499–11510. 5 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1995). Confirmation of the Asymptotic Bethe Ansatz. Physical Review Letters. 75(7). 1248–1251. 15 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill & A. E. Jacobs. (1994). Self-Organization and Scaling in a Lattice Predator-Prey Model.. Complex Systems. 8. 10 indexed citations
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Römer, Rudolf A. & Bill Sutherland. (1994). Critical exponents for the sinh-cosh interaction model in the zero sector. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 49(10). 6779–6787. 4 indexed citations
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Shastry, B. Sriram & Bill Sutherland. (1993). Super Lax pairs and infinite symmetries in the 1/r2system. Physical Review Letters. 70(26). 4029–4033. 42 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill & B. Sriram Shastry. (1993). Solution of some integrable one-dimensional quantum systems. Physical Review Letters. 71(1). 5–8. 76 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill & Rudolf A. Römer. (1993). Exciton, spinon, and spin wave modes in a soluble one-dimensional many-body system. Physical Review Letters. 71(17). 2789–2792. 15 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1988). Novel mechanism for superconductivity in the resonating-valence-bond ground state. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 38(10). 7192–7195. 9 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1988). Exact solution of a lattice band problem related to an exactly soluble many-body problem: The missing-states problem. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 38(10). 6689–6692. 6 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1986). Simple System with Quasiperiodic Dynamics: a Spin in a Magnetic Field. Physical Review Letters. 57(6). 770–773. 43 indexed citations
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Kohmoto, Mahito & Bill Sutherland. (1986). Electronic and vibrational modes on a Penrose lattice: Localized states and band structure. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 34(6). 3849–3853. 95 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1983). Investigation of the Peierls distortion. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 27(12). 7209–7228. 2 indexed citations
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Mattis, Daniel C. & Bill Sutherland. (1981). Strange solutions to field theories in one spatial dimension. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 22(8). 1692–1695. 3 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill & Daniel C. Mattis. (1981). Ambiguities with the relativisticδ-function potential. Physical review. A, General physics. 24(3). 1194–1197. 44 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1979). Exact Solution of Some Nonseparable Band Problems. Physical Review Letters. 42(14). 915–918. 2 indexed citations
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Bonner, J. C., Bill Sutherland, & Peter M. Richards. (1975). The spectral weight of low-lying excitations in the one-dimensional spin 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet. AIP conference proceedings. 24. 335–337. 6 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1973). Exact Results for the Eight-Vertex Model in Three Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 31(25). 1504–1506. 7 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1969). Eigenvalues of the Liouville Equation for a One-Dimensional System. Physical Review Letters. 22(9). 393–395. 3 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill. (1968). Further Results for the Many-Body Problem in One Dimension. Physical Review Letters. 20(3). 98–100. 214 indexed citations
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Sutherland, Bill, Chongming Yang, & Changqing Yang. (1967). Exact Solution of a Model of Two-Dimensional Ferroelectrics in an Arbitrary External Electric Field. Physical Review Letters. 19(10). 588–591. 101 indexed citations

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