Johannes Knolle

8.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
141 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Johannes Knolle is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Johannes Knolle has authored 141 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 95 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 31 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Johannes Knolle's work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (70 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (59 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (58 papers). Johannes Knolle is often cited by papers focused on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (70 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (59 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (58 papers). Johannes Knolle collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Johannes Knolle's co-authors include Roderich Moessner, D. L. Kovrizhin, Ilya Eremin, Arnab Banerjee, S. E. Nagler, David Mandrus, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Craig A. Bridges, M. D. Lumsden and D. M. Tennant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Johannes Knolle

136 papers receiving 5.9k citations

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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.

Proximate Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Behaviour in {\alpha}-RuCl$_3$

2015 737 citations Arnab Banerjee, Craig A. Bridges et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
Neutron scattering in the proximate quantum spin liquid α-RuCl ₃

2017 516 citations Arnab Banerjee, Jiaqiang Yan et al. profile →
A Field Guide to Spin Liquids

2018 345 citations Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Johannes Knolle Germany	36	4.5k	2.8k	2.4k	706	632	141	5.9k
Hong Yao China	44	3.7k 0.8×	4.9k 1.7×	1.6k 0.6×	404 0.6×	2.3k 3.6×	138	7.1k
Dung‐Hai Lee United States	46	4.7k 1.0×	4.2k 1.5×	2.7k 1.1×	600 0.8×	1.6k 2.6×	151	7.4k
Philip Phillips United States	33	2.5k 0.6×	2.7k 1.0×	1.3k 0.5×	529 0.7×	847 1.3×	202	4.8k
Patrick A. Lee United States	30	7.2k 1.6×	5.8k 2.1×	2.9k 1.2×	984 1.4×	1.5k 2.3×	54	9.6k
Congjun Wu United States	39	2.9k 0.6×	3.9k 1.4×	1.2k 0.5×	153 0.2×	1.1k 1.8×	114	5.3k
Mark H. Fischer Switzerland	31	2.6k 0.6×	3.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.5×	379 0.5×	1.2k 1.8×	96	5.2k
Erez Berg Israel	45	5.6k 1.2×	8.3k 3.0×	1.7k 0.7×	327 0.5×	2.2k 3.5×	171	10.6k
Cenke Xu United States	41	3.6k 0.8×	4.5k 1.6×	984 0.4×	103 0.1×	1.2k 2.0×	137	6.0k
A. F. Kemper United States	32	1.4k 0.3×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	391 0.6×	1.1k 1.7×	105	3.5k
Carsten Timm Germany	32	1.4k 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	702 1.0×	784 1.2×	119	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Druga, Emanuel, Johannes Knolle, Roderich Moessner, et al.. (2025). Experimental observation of a time rondeau crystal. Nature Physics. 21(11). 1813–1819. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Ying, et al.. (2025). Exploring d-wave magnetism in cuprates from oxygen moments. Physical review. B.. 112(12). 2 indexed citations

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Knolle, Johannes, et al.. (2025). Real-time scattering in the lattice Schwinger model. Physical review. D. 111(1). 9 indexed citations

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Jin, Hui-Ke, et al.. (2024). Single-hole spectra of Kitaev spin liquids: from dynamical Nagaoka ferromagnetism to spin-hole fractionalization. npj Quantum Materials. 9(1). 6 indexed citations

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Seifert, Urban F. P., et al.. (2024). Spin-Peierls instability of deconfined quantum critical points. Physical review. B.. 110(12). 1 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongzheng, Johannes Knolle, & Roderich Moessner. (2023). Temporal disorder in spatiotemporal order. Physical review. B.. 108(10). 6 indexed citations

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Jin, Hui-Ke, et al.. (2023). Quantum liquids of the S=32 Kitaev honeycomb and related Kugel-Khomskii models. Physical review. B.. 108(7). 12 indexed citations

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Mukherjee, Rick, et al.. (2022). Dynamical Hadron Formation in Long-Range Interacting Quantum Spin Chains. PRX Quantum. 3(4). 19 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongzheng, et al.. (2022). Confinement-induced impurity states in spin chains. Physical review. B.. 105(10). 8 indexed citations

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Kiemle, Jonas, Elio J. König, Andreas P. Schnyder, et al.. (2022). Berry curvature-induced local spin polarisation in gated graphene/WTe2 heterostructures. Nature Communications. 13(1). 3152–3152. 7 indexed citations

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Khosla, Kiran E., et al.. (2021). Efficient Mitigation of Depolarizing Errors in Quantum Simulations. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Pizzi, Andrea, Andreas Nunnenkamp, & Johannes Knolle. (2021). Classical Prethermal Phases of Matter. Physical Review Letters. 127(14). 140602–140602. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Yiping, Gavin B. Osterhoudt, Yao Tian, et al.. (2020). The range of non-Kitaev terms and fractional particles in α-RuCl3. npj Quantum Materials. 5(1). 44 indexed citations

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Zhao, Hongzheng, Florian Mintert, & Johannes Knolle. (2019). Floquet Time Spirals and Discrete Time Quasi-Crystals. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Kim, Minsoo, Piranavan Kumaravadivel, John Birkbeck, et al.. (2019). Micromagnetometry of two-dimensional ferromagnets. Nature Electronics. 2(10). 457–463. 111 indexed citations

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Osterhoudt, Gavin B., Yao Tian, Arnab Banerjee, et al.. (2018). High Temperature Fermi Statistics from Majorana Fermions in an Insulating Magnet. arXiv (Cornell University). 2019. 1 indexed citations

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Knolle, Johannes & Nigel R. Cooper. (2017). Excitons in topological Kondo insulators: Theory of thermodynamic and transport anomalies inSmB6. Physical Review Letters. 118(9). 96604–96604. 66 indexed citations

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Banerjee, Arnab, Craig A. Bridges, Jiaqiang Yan, et al.. (2015). Proximate Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Behaviour in {\alpha}-RuCl$_3$. arXiv (Cornell University). 737 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eremin, Ilya, et al.. (2014). Superconductivity from repulsion in LiFeAs: novel s-wave symmetry and potential time-reversal symmetry breaking. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 4 indexed citations

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Fernandes, Rafael M., Andrey V. Chubukov, Johannes Knolle, Ilya Eremin, & Jörg Schmalian. (2012). Preemptive nematic order, pseudogap, and orbital order in the iron pnictides. Physical Review B. 85(2). 297 indexed citations

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