Charles M. Sommerfield

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Charles M. Sommerfield is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Charles M. Sommerfield has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Charles M. Sommerfield's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (9 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (4 papers). Charles M. Sommerfield is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (9 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (4 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (4 papers). Charles M. Sommerfield collaborates with scholars based in United States. Charles M. Sommerfield's co-authors include M. K. Prasad, Eyvind H. Wichmann, Robert Karplus, Lowell S. Brown, A. Neveu, Stephen Parke, Sidney Coleman, Alan Chodos, Sheldon L. Glashow and David A. Owen and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Charles M. Sommerfield

20 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Exact Classical Solution for the 't Hooft Monopole and th... 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 250 500 750 1000
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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. Exact Classical Solution for the 't Hooft Monopole and the Julia-Zee Dyon
    1975 1.0k citations M. K. Prasad, Charles M. Sommerfield Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Charles M. Sommerfield United States 14 1.5k 596 488 453 175 20 2.0k
G. Furlan Italy 25 2.0k 1.3× 670 1.1× 617 1.3× 448 1.0× 145 0.8× 89 2.6k
Noboru Nakanishi Japan 22 1.7k 1.1× 741 1.2× 583 1.2× 518 1.1× 112 0.6× 159 2.2k
Myron Bander United States 22 1.7k 1.1× 803 1.3× 380 0.8× 360 0.8× 292 1.7× 88 2.6k
W. Zimmermann Germany 21 1.5k 1.0× 364 0.6× 324 0.7× 399 0.9× 175 1.0× 67 2.0k
Jean-Louis Basdevant France 23 1.5k 1.0× 521 0.9× 533 1.1× 419 0.9× 103 0.6× 69 2.1k
V. de Alfaro Italy 20 1.5k 1.0× 481 0.8× 534 1.1× 549 1.2× 106 0.6× 58 1.8k
V.N. Gribov Russia 23 3.2k 2.1× 461 0.8× 368 0.8× 344 0.8× 165 0.9× 71 3.7k
Shau-Jin Chang United States 26 1.2k 0.8× 708 1.2× 745 1.5× 231 0.5× 221 1.3× 76 2.1k
T. D. Lee United States 14 2.3k 1.5× 827 1.4× 455 0.9× 842 1.9× 178 1.0× 23 3.2k
R. Rajaraman India 26 1.5k 1.0× 983 1.6× 820 1.7× 377 0.8× 306 1.7× 94 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sommerfield, Charles M. & Charles B. Thorn. (2008). Classical worldsheets for string scattering on flat and AdS spacetime. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(4). 6 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M., et al.. (2000). Dynamics of gauge fields : TMU-Yale Symposium, proceedings of TMU-Yale Symposium on the Occasion of TMU's 50th anniversary held on December 13-15, 1999 at Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan : external activity of Asia Pacific Center for theoretical physics. 2 indexed citations
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Chodos, Alan, David A. Owen, & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1988). Strong field dependence of the fine structure constant. Physics Letters B. 212(4). 491–494. 20 indexed citations
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Freedman, Daniel Z., Paul Ginsparg, Charles M. Sommerfield, & Nicholas P. Warner. (1987). String-ghost interactions and the trace anomaly. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 36(6). 1800–1818. 6 indexed citations
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Chodos, Alan & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1983). Practical use of the Hamilton–Jacobi equation. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 24(2). 271–275. 8 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1979). Generating functional for gauge-invariant Green's functions. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 96(1-2). 309–314. 3 indexed citations
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Coleman, Sidney, Stephen Parke, A. Neveu, & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1977). Can one dent a dyon?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 15(2). 544–545. 61 indexed citations
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Prasad, M. K. & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1976). Solutions of classical gauge field theories with spin and internal symmetry. Nuclear Physics B. 110(1). 153–172. 5 indexed citations
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Prasad, M. K. & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1975). Exact Classical Solution for the 't Hooft Monopole and the Julia-Zee Dyon. Physical Review Letters. 35(12). 760–762. 1049 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1974). Quantization on spacetime hyperboloids. Annals of Physics. 84(1-2). 285–302. 36 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1968). Currents as Dynamical Variables. Physical Review. 176(5). 2019–2025. 101 indexed citations
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Brown, Lowell S. & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1966). Algebra of Currents and Nonleptonic Hyperon Decay. Physical Review Letters. 16(17). 751–754. 86 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M., et al.. (1966). Overlapping Resonances in Three-Particle Final States. Physical Review. 152(4). 1401–1407. 13 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1965). Solution of the Integral Equation for Vθ Scattering in the Lee Model. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 6(7). 1170–1172. 15 indexed citations
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Glashow, Sheldon L. & Charles M. Sommerfield. (1965). Is Charge-Conjugation Invariance Badly Broken?. Physical Review Letters. 15(2). 78–80. 18 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1964). On the definition of currents and the action principle in field theories of one spatial dimension. Annals of Physics. 26(1). 1–43. 100 indexed citations
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Karplus, Robert, Charles M. Sommerfield, & Eyvind H. Wichmann. (1959). Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory. II. Two-Particle Scattering. Physical Review. 114(1). 376–382. 75 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1958). The magnetic moment of the electron. Annals of Physics. 5(1). 26–57. 107 indexed citations
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Karplus, Robert, Charles M. Sommerfield, & Eyvind H. Wichmann. (1958). Spectral Representations in Perturbation Theory. I. Vertex Function. Physical Review. 111(4). 1187–1190. 166 indexed citations
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Sommerfield, Charles M.. (1957). Magnetic Dipole Moment of the Electron. Physical Review. 107(1). 328–329. 173 indexed citations

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