Christoph Heil

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christoph Heil is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Materials Chemistry and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christoph Heil has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 16 papers in Materials Chemistry and 15 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Christoph Heil's work include High-pressure geophysics and materials (15 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (13 papers) and Iron-based superconductors research (10 papers). Christoph Heil is often cited by papers focused on High-pressure geophysics and materials (15 papers), Rare-earth and actinide compounds (13 papers) and Iron-based superconductors research (10 papers). Christoph Heil collaborates with scholars based in Austria, United Kingdom and United States. Christoph Heil's co-authors include Lilia Boeri, Simone Di Cataldo, Wolfgang von der Linden, Feliciano Giustino, Giovanni B. Bachelet, Elena R. Margine, Martin Schlipf, Samuel Poncé, Henry Lambert and Chris J. Pickard and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and Nano Letters.

In The Last Decade

Christoph Heil

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Feasible Route to High-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity

2024 71 citations Kapildeb Dolui, Lewis J. Conway et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers

Christoph Heil

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Tiange Bi United States

Yanbin Ma China

J. C. Cooley United States

S. M. Souliou Germany

A. V. Irodova Russia

Shaun R. Evans United Kingdom

K. S. Nemkovski France

Arnab Majumdar India

J. S. Schilling United States

Bo Gyu Jang South Korea

Tiange Bi United States

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156 ×0.5

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84 ×0.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Christoph Heil

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christoph Heil

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christoph Heil

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christoph Heil. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christoph Heil 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 Christoph Heil. Christoph Heil is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sahoo, Mihir Ranjan, Birgit Kunert, Roland Resel, et al.. (2025). Vacancy-free cubic superconducting NbN enabled by quantum anharmonicity. Communications Materials. 6(1).

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Dolui, Kapildeb, Mihir Ranjan Sahoo, Chris J. Pickard, et al.. (2025). Prediction and synthesis of Mg4Pt3H6: A superconducting complex transition metal hydride stabilized at ambient pressure. Physical review. B.. 112(9).

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Mori, Hitoshi, et al.. (2025). IsoME: Streamlining high-precision Eliashberg calculations. Computer Physics Communications. 315. 109720–109720. 5 indexed citations

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Semenok, Dmitrii V., Di Zhou, Wuhao Chen, et al.. (2025). Stability and Superconductivity of Ternary Polyhydrides. Annalen der Physik. 538(1).

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Marqués, María José, et al.. (2024). Ab initio modeling of superconducting alloys. Materials Today Physics. 48. 101547–101547. 4 indexed citations

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Bhattacharyya, A., Rajib Mondal, A. Thamizhavel, et al.. (2024). Probing the superconducting gap structure of ScRuSi via μSR and first-principles calculations. Physical review. B.. 109(22). 3 indexed citations

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Conway, Lewis J., Kapildeb Dolui, Christoph Heil, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of Mg2IrH5: A potential pathway to high-Tc hydride superconductivity at ambient pressure. Physical review. B.. 110(21). 4 indexed citations

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Buč̌ar, Dejan-Krešimir, et al.. (2024). Machine learning assisted prediction of organic salt structure properties. npj Computational Materials. 10(1). 6 indexed citations

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Hajinazar, Samad, et al.. (2024). Full-bandwidth anisotropic Migdal-Eliashberg theory and its application to superhydrides. Communications Physics. 7(1). 18 indexed citations

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Dolui, Kapildeb, Lewis J. Conway, Christoph Heil, et al.. (2024). Feasible Route to High-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Hydride Superconductivity. Physical Review Letters. 132(16). 166001–166001. 71 indexed citations breakdown →

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Conway, Lewis J., Simone Di Cataldo, Luiz T. F. Eleno, et al.. (2023). Search for ambient superconductivity in the Lu-N-H system. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5367–5367. 53 indexed citations

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Cataldo, Simone Di, et al.. (2023). Quantum lattice dynamics and their importance in ternary superhydride clathrates. Communications Physics. 6(1). 298–298. 21 indexed citations

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Heil, Christoph, et al.. (2021). Superconductivity and strong anharmonicity in novel Nb–S phases. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 33(17). 174001–174001. 5 indexed citations

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Yim, Chi Ming, et al.. (2021). Probing Magnetic Exchange Interactions with Helium. Physical Review Letters. 127(16). 166803–166803. 1 indexed citations

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Cataldo, Simone Di, Christoph Heil, Wolfgang von der Linden, & Lilia Boeri. (2021). LaBH8: Towards high-Tc low-pressure superconductivity in ternary superhydrides. Physical review. B.. 104(2). 138 indexed citations

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Ying, Jianjun, et al.. (2018). Unusual Pressure-Induced Periodic Lattice Distortion in SnSe2. Physical Review Letters. 121(2). 27003–27003. 31 indexed citations

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Boeri, Lilia, Christian Kokail, & Christoph Heil. (2017). Search for high-Tc conventional superconductivity at megabar pressures in the lithium-sulfur system. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2017.

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Heil, Christoph, Samuel Poncé, Henry Lambert, et al.. (2017). Origin of Superconductivity and Latent Charge Density Wave in NbS2. Physical Review Letters. 119(8). 87003–87003. 121 indexed citations

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Heil, Christoph, H. Sormann, Lilia Boeri, Markus Aichhorn, & Wolfgang von der Linden. (2014). Accurate bare susceptibilities from full-potentialab initiocalculations. Physical Review B. 90(11). 23 indexed citations

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Barton, Lawrence & Christoph Heil. (1970). The reduction of germanium dioxide with graphite at high temperatures. Journal of the Less Common Metals. 22(1). 11–17. 6 indexed citations

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