David Vanderbilt

96.9k total citations · 30 hit papers
363 papers, 76.0k citations indexed

About

David Vanderbilt is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, David Vanderbilt has authored 363 papers receiving a total of 76.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 213 papers in Materials Chemistry, 171 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 110 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in David Vanderbilt's work include Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (85 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (70 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (66 papers). David Vanderbilt is often cited by papers focused on Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (85 papers), Topological Materials and Phenomena (70 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (66 papers). David Vanderbilt collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Italy. David Vanderbilt's co-authors include Nicola Marzari, R. D. King-Smith, Ivo Souza, Jonathan R. Yates, Karin M. Rabe, Arash A. Mostofi, W. L. Zhong, Vincenzo Fiorentini, Fabio Bernardini and L. Bellaïche and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

David Vanderbilt

358 papers receiving 74.3k citations

Hit Papers

Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized ei... 1985 2026 1998 2012 1990 1997 1993 2007 1997 5.0k 10.0k 15.0k 20.0k
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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. Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism
    1990 20.0k citations David Vanderbilt profile →
  2. Maximally localized generalized Wannier functions for composite energy bands
    1997 3.5k citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  3. Theory of polarization of crystalline solids
    1993 3.3k citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  4. wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions
    2007 3.1k citations Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  5. Spontaneous polarization and piezoelectric constants of III-V nitrides
    1997 2.4k citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  6. Maximally localized Wannier functions: Theory and applications
    2012 2.2k citations Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  7. An updated version of wannier90: A tool for obtaining maximally-localised Wannier functions
    2014 1.7k citations Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  8. Maximally localized Wannier functions for entangled energy bands
    2001 1.6k citations Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  9. Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics with Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudopotentials
    1993 1.2k citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  10. Pseudopotentials for high-throughput DFT calculations
    2013 1.2k citations Karin M. Rabe, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  11. Electric polarization as a bulk quantity and its relation to surface charge
    1993 1.0k citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  12. Thermal Contraction and Disordering of the Al(110) Surface
    1999 950 citations David Vanderbilt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Giant LO-TO splittings in perovskite ferroelectrics
    1994 730 citations David Vanderbilt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  14. Systematic treatment of displacements, strains, and electric fields in density-functional perturbation theory
    2005 726 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  15. Magnetoelectric Polarizability and Axion Electrodynamics in Crystalline Insulators
    2009 690 citations David Vanderbilt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  16. Virtual crystal approximation revisited: Application to dielectric and piezoelectric properties of perovskites
    2000 689 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  17. First-principles theory of ferroelectric phase transitions for perovskites: The case ofBaTiO3
    1995 632 citations David Vanderbilt, Karin M. Rabe et al. profile →
  18. First-principles study of structural, vibrational, and lattice dielectric properties of hafnium oxide
    2002 621 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  19. Optimally smooth norm-conserving pseudopotentials
    1985 599 citations David Vanderbilt profile →
  20. First-principles investigation of ferroelectricity in perovskite compounds
    1994 593 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  21. Spontaneous Formation of Stress Domains on Crystal Surfaces
    1988 558 citations David Vanderbilt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  22. Monoclinic and triclinic phases in higher-order Devonshire theory
    2001 553 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  23. Phase Transitions in BaTiO3from First Principles
    1994 550 citations David Vanderbilt, Karin M. Rabe et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  24. Finite-Temperature Properties ofPb(Zr1−xTix)O3Alloys from First Principles
    2000 542 citations David Vanderbilt et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  25. First-principles calculations of the energetics of stoichiometricTiO2surfaces
    1994 530 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  26. Density-matrix electronic-structure method with linear system-size scaling
    1993 497 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  27. Ab initiocalculation of the anomalous Hall conductivity by Wannier interpolation
    2006 437 citations Ivo Souza, David Vanderbilt et al. profile →
  28. Berry Phases in Electronic Structure Theory
    2018 426 citations David Vanderbilt profile →
  29. Computing topological invariants without inversion symmetry
    2011 425 citations Alexey A. Soluyanov, David Vanderbilt profile →
  30. Implementation of ultrasoft pseudopotentials inab initiomolecular dynamics
    1991 388 citations David Vanderbilt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Vanderbilt United States 107 50.5k 28.3k 20.2k 19.1k 15.5k 363 76.0k
Alex Zunger United States 131 57.0k 1.1× 35.5k 1.3× 13.7k 0.7× 40.1k 2.1× 12.7k 0.8× 740 86.0k
Steven G. Louie United States 140 66.8k 1.3× 34.4k 1.2× 9.8k 0.5× 29.3k 1.5× 8.7k 0.6× 656 88.7k
Gustavo E. Scuseria United States 114 58.9k 1.2× 36.8k 1.3× 15.8k 0.8× 23.8k 1.2× 7.0k 0.4× 488 101.6k
L. J. Sham United States 72 33.7k 0.7× 34.9k 1.2× 10.8k 0.5× 18.9k 1.0× 9.0k 0.6× 267 70.8k
Marvin L. Cohen United States 132 61.9k 1.2× 32.6k 1.2× 10.0k 0.5× 24.3k 1.3× 11.9k 0.8× 794 86.7k
David J. Singh United States 96 38.6k 0.8× 12.2k 0.4× 22.5k 1.1× 15.5k 0.8× 14.5k 0.9× 637 61.0k
Peter E. Blöchl Germany 41 59.5k 1.2× 16.3k 0.6× 15.7k 0.8× 29.1k 1.5× 9.8k 0.6× 95 87.5k
J. Häfner Austria 66 57.8k 1.1× 20.0k 0.7× 13.2k 0.7× 24.1k 1.3× 9.1k 0.6× 415 86.3k
Daniel P. Joubert South Africa 14 49.3k 1.0× 12.7k 0.4× 12.1k 0.6× 22.4k 1.2× 7.5k 0.5× 66 69.8k
Hendrik J. Monkhorst United States 40 46.0k 0.9× 15.8k 0.6× 11.6k 0.6× 19.8k 1.0× 7.0k 0.5× 124 67.1k

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All Works

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Musfeldt, J. L., Sobhit Singh, Xianghan Xu, et al.. (2025). Pressure-Driven Polar Orthorhombic to Tetragonal Phase Transition in Hafnia at Room Temperature. Chemistry of Materials. 37(5). 1820–1825. 1 indexed citations
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Kugler, Fabian B., et al.. (2024). Vacancy-Induced Tunable Kondo Effect in Twisted Bilayer Graphene. Physical Review Letters. 133(12). 126503–126503. 1 indexed citations
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Musfeldt, J. L., Sobhit Singh, Shiyu Fan, et al.. (2024). Structural phase purification of bulk HfO 2 :Y through pressure cycling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(5). e2312571121–e2312571121. 7 indexed citations
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Vanderbilt, David, et al.. (2023). Towards a theory of surface orbital magnetization. Physical review. B.. 107(11). 5 indexed citations
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Fan, Shiyu, Sobhit Singh, Xianghan Xu, et al.. (2022). Vibrational fingerprints of ferroelectric HfO2. npj Quantum Materials. 7(1). 41 indexed citations
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Singh, Sobhit, et al.. (2022). Vibrational properties of CuInP2S6 across the ferroelectric transition. Physical review. B.. 105(7). 28 indexed citations
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O’Neal, Kenneth R., Amanda V. Haglund, David Mandrus, et al.. (2021). Exploring few and single layer CrPS4 with near-field infrared spectroscopy. 2D Materials. 8(3). 35020–35020. 18 indexed citations
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Singh, Sobhit, Tomoya Asaba, J. H. Brewer, et al.. (2021). Proximate Quantum Spin Liquid on Designer Lattice. Nano Letters. 21(5). 2010–2017. 5 indexed citations
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Gaudet, Jonathan, Hung‐Yu Yang, Santu Baidya, et al.. (2021). Weyl-mediated helical magnetism in NdAlSi. Nature Materials. 20(12). 1650–1656. 74 indexed citations
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Baidya, Santu, David Vanderbilt, Jonathan Gaudet, et al.. (2021). NdAlSi, a type II magnetic Weyl semimetal. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Yokosuk, Michael O., Heung‐Sik Kim, Kendall D. Hughey, et al.. (2020). Nonreciprocal directional dichroism of a chiral magnet in the visible range. npj Quantum Materials. 5(1). 27 indexed citations
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Kim, Heung‐Sik, Kenneth R. O’Neal, Amanda V. Haglund, et al.. (2020). Symmetry crossover in layered MPS3 complexes (M=Mn, Fe, Ni) via near-field infrared spectroscopy. Physical review. B.. 102(8). 18 indexed citations
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Kim, Jinwoong, et al.. (2020). Robust A-Type Order and Spin-Flop Transition on the Surface of the Antiferromagnetic Topological Insulator MnBi2Te4. Physical Review Letters. 125(3). 37201–37201. 80 indexed citations
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Kim, Jinwoong, Karin M. Rabe, & David Vanderbilt. (2019). Negative piezoelectric response of van der Waals layered bismuth tellurohalides. Physical review. B.. 100(10). 42 indexed citations
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Moon, Jisoo, Jin Woong Kim, Nikesh Koirala, et al.. (2019). Ferromagnetic Anomalous Hall Effect in Cr-Doped Bi2Se3 Thin Films via Surface-State Engineering. Nano Letters. 19(6). 3409–3414. 14 indexed citations
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Kim, Heung‐Sik, Amanda V. Haglund, David Mandrus, et al.. (2019). Near-field infrared spectroscopy of monolayer MnPS3. Physical review. B.. 100(7). 16 indexed citations
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Yokosuk, Michael O., Sergey Artyukhin, Kenneth R. O’Neal, et al.. (2017). Magnetoelectric Coupling through the Spin Flop Transition in Ni3TeO6. Scholarworks@UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology). 2017. 2 indexed citations
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Gresch, Dominik, Matthias Troyer, Alexey A. Soluyanov, et al.. (2016). Universal framework for identifying topological materials and its numerical implementation in Z2Pack software package. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2016. 2 indexed citations
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Vanderbilt, David. (2005). Polarization, electric fields, and dielectric response in insulators. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Souza, Ivo, Jorge Íñiguez, & David Vanderbilt. (2002). First-Principles Approach to Insulators in Finite Electric Fields. Physical Review Letters. 89(11). 117602–117602. 367 indexed citations

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