C. H. Back

15.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
216 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

C. H. Back is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, C. H. Back has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 196 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 104 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 72 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in C. H. Back's work include Magnetic properties of thin films (179 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (62 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers). C. H. Back is often cited by papers focused on Magnetic properties of thin films (179 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (62 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers). C. H. Back collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. C. H. Back's co-authors include Sergio O. Valenzuela, J. Wunderlich, T. Jungwirth, Jairo Sinova, Georg Woltersdorf, M. Buess, D. Pescia, Hermann Stoll, D. Weiß and Bartel Van Waeyenberge and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

C. H. Back

212 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Spin Hall effects

2015 2.1k citations J. Wunderlich, C. H. Back et al. profile →
Magnetic vortex core reversal by excitation with short bursts of an alternating field

2006 678 citations D. Weiß, C. H. Back et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
C. H. Back Germany	54	9.1k	3.8k	3.6k	2.8k	2.0k	216	10.4k
T. J. Silva United States	48	7.3k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.5×	124	8.0k
A. V. Kimel Netherlands	55	11.3k 1.2×	3.0k 0.8×	5.0k 1.4×	6.9k 2.5×	2.9k 1.4×	238	14.1k
M. Hehn France	43	6.4k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	300	7.7k
A. Thiaville France	42	9.4k 1.0×	4.6k 1.2×	4.3k 1.2×	2.5k 0.9×	2.2k 1.1×	153	10.4k
Naoya Kanazawa Japan	36	8.0k 0.9×	4.9k 1.3×	4.3k 1.2×	945 0.3×	1.6k 0.8×	87	9.1k
J. A. Katine United States	53	11.3k 1.2×	3.4k 0.9×	4.6k 1.3×	5.2k 1.8×	2.4k 1.2×	197	12.7k
J. Faßbender Germany	48	4.9k 0.5×	2.1k 0.6×	2.8k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	285	8.0k
S. Mangin France	42	6.4k 0.7×	1.8k 0.5×	3.5k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	240	7.3k
J. A. C. Bland United Kingdom	52	10.0k 1.1×	4.3k 1.1×	5.5k 1.5×	2.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	394	11.6k
Bartel Van Waeyenberge Belgium	26	4.8k 0.5×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	773 0.4×	94	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of C. H. Back

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Aqeel, Aisha, M. Kronseder, Nynke Vlietstra, et al.. (2025). Spin Hall magnetoresistance and spin Seebeck effect in Pt |CoCr ₂ O ₄ heterostructures. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 26(1). 2457320–2457320. 1 indexed citations

Ukleev, Victor, Chen Luo, Radu Abrudan, et al.. (2025). Observation of distorted tilted conical phase at the surface of a bulk chiral magnet with resonant elastic x-ray scattering. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 26(1). 2532366–2532366. 1 indexed citations

Kronseder, M., Michael Foerster, Miguel Ángel Niño, et al.. (2024). Magnetization patterns in GaAs-Fe33Co67 core–shell nanorods. Applied Physics Letters. 125(25).

Chen, Lin, Yuping Sun, S. Mankovsky, et al.. (2024). Signatures of magnetism control by flow of angular momentum. Nature. 633(8030). 548–553. 2 indexed citations

Bauer, A., Christian Franz, Aisha Aqeel, et al.. (2023). Resonant Elastic X-Ray Scattering of Antiferromagnetic Superstructures in EuPtSi3. Physical Review Letters. 130(26). 266701–266701. 2 indexed citations

Lee, Oscar, Tianyi Wei, Kilian D. Stenning, et al.. (2023). Task-adaptive physical reservoir computing. Nature Materials. 23(1). 79–87. 61 indexed citations

Chen, Lin, S. Mankovsky, M. Kronseder, et al.. (2023). Interfacial Tuning of Anisotropic Gilbert Damping. Physical Review Letters. 130(4). 46704–46704. 9 indexed citations

Golub, L. E., M. Kronseder, Masakazu Matsubara, et al.. (2023). Terahertz spin ratchet effect in magnetic metamaterials. Physical review. B.. 107(15). 3 indexed citations

Ukleev, Victor, Chen Luo, Radu Abrudan, et al.. (2022). Chiral surface spin textures in Cu ₂ OSeO ₃ unveiled by soft X-ray scattering in specular reflection geometry. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 23(1). 682–690. 4 indexed citations

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Groß, Felix, Markus Weigand, Gisela Schütz, et al.. (2022). Imaging magnonic frequency multiplication in nanostructured antidot lattices. Physical review. B.. 106(1). 5 indexed citations

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Danilov, S. N., L. E. Golub, Thomas Mayer, et al.. (2021). Superlinear Photogalvanic Effects in (Bi0.3Sb0.7)2(Te0.1Se0.9)3: Probing Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator Surface States at Room Temperature. Physical Review Applied. 16(6). 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Lin, Martin Decker, M. Kronseder, et al.. (2021). Dynamic detection of current-induced spin-orbit magnetic fields. Physical review. B.. 104(1). 2 indexed citations

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Groß, Felix, Mateusz Zelent, S. Mamica, et al.. (2021). Phase resolved observation of spin wave modes in antidot lattices. Applied Physics Letters. 118(23). 10 indexed citations

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Wang, Yuyan, Martin Decker, Thomas Meier, et al.. (2020). Spin pumping during the antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic phase transition of iron–rhodium. Nature Communications. 11(1). 275–275. 57 indexed citations

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Groß, Felix, Mateusz Zelent, Nick Träger, et al.. (2020). Building Blocks for Magnon Optics: Emission and Conversion of Short Spin Waves. ACS Nano. 14(12). 17184–17193. 12 indexed citations

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Back, C. H., G. Bauer, & Barry Zink. (2019). Special issue on spin caloritronics. Journal of Physics D Applied Physics. 52(23). 230301–230301. 14 indexed citations

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Pudell, Jan‐Etienne, A. A. Maznev, Marc Herzog, et al.. (2018). Layer specific observation of slow thermal equilibration in ultrathin metallic nanostructures by femtosecond X-ray diffraction. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3335–3335. 42 indexed citations

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Chen, Lin, S. Mankovsky, Sebastian Wimmer, et al.. (2018). Emergence of anisotropic Gilbert damping in ultrathin Fe layers on GaAs(001). Nature Physics. 14(5). 490–494. 85 indexed citations

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Gmitra, Martin, M. Kronseder, D. Schuh, et al.. (2016). 界面スピン-軌道相互作用による超薄Fe/GaAs(001)層の異方性極性磁気光学Kerr効果. Physical Review Letters. 117(15). 1–157202. 5 indexed citations

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Buess, M., Tobias Haug, M. R. Scheinfein, & C. H. Back. (2005). Micromagnetic Dissipation, Dispersion, and Mode Conversion in Thin Permalloy Platelets. Physical Review Letters. 94(12). 127205–127205. 48 indexed citations

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