Kimball A. Milton

10.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
248 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Kimball A. Milton is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kimball A. Milton has authored 248 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 163 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 100 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 78 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Kimball A. Milton's work include Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (116 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (63 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (51 papers). Kimball A. Milton is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect (116 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (63 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (51 papers). Kimball A. Milton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Norway and United Kingdom. Kimball A. Milton's co-authors include Carl M. Bender, Lester L. DeRaad, Julian Schwinger, Iver Brevik, Stephen S. Pinsky, L. M. Simmons, I. L. Solovtsov, Wu-yang Tsai, Prachi Parashar and O. P. Solovtsova and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Kimball A. Milton

242 papers receiving 6.0k citations

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The Casimir Effect

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kimball A. Milton United States	39	4.7k	3.2k	2.2k	1.4k	985	248	6.3k
A. O. Barut United States	35	2.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	556 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	527 0.5×	238	5.1k
S. Stringari Italy	62	19.1k 4.1×	3.0k 1.0×	549 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	474 0.5×	284	20.4k
Eric Cornell United States	61	20.7k 4.4×	2.8k 0.9×	390 0.2×	601 0.4×	319 0.3×	141	21.6k
R. Balescu Belgium	29	1.4k 0.3×	1.8k 0.6×	923 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	37 0.0×	120	4.2k
Aurel Bulgac United States	39	3.0k 0.7×	811 0.3×	433 0.2×	1.3k 0.9×	51 0.1×	144	4.5k
Giovanni Gallavotti Italy	39	1.6k 0.4×	3.5k 1.1×	254 0.1×	442 0.3×	139 0.1×	153	5.5k
G. Barton United Kingdom	37	4.7k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	650 0.3×	772 0.5×	372 0.4×	131	5.9k
E. Elizalde Spain	47	2.4k 0.5×	2.3k 0.7×	7.5k 3.5×	6.4k 4.5×	150 0.2×	329	10.2k
N. N. Bogoli︠u︡bov Russia	7	783 0.2×	686 0.2×	356 0.2×	759 0.5×	51 0.1×	24	2.4k
Karl E. Lonngren United States	33	2.2k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	742 0.5×	14 0.0×	216	4.2k

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Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2025). Spontaneous torque on an inhomogeneous chiral body out of thermal equilibrium. Physical review. A. 111(2).

Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2024). Quantum self-propulsion of an inhomogeneous object out of thermal equilibrium. Physical review. A. 110(4). 3 indexed citations

Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2023). Vacuum torque, propulsive forces, and anomalous tangential forces: Effects of nonreciprocal media out of thermal equilibrium. Physical review. A. 108(2). 7 indexed citations

Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2023). Quantum friction in the presence of a perfectly conducting plate. Physical review. A. 107(6). 6 indexed citations

Li, Yang, et al.. (2022). Casimir self-entropy of nanoparticles with classical polarizabilities: Electromagnetic field fluctuations. Physical review. D. 106(3). 1 indexed citations

Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2021). Energetics of quantum vacuum friction: Field fluctuations. Physical review. D. 104(11). 11 indexed citations

Lambrecht, Astrid, et al.. (2016). Reply to “Comment on ‘Lifshitz-Matsubara sum formula for the Casimir pressure between magnetic metallic mirrors’ ”. Physical review. E. 94(2). 26102–26102. 1 indexed citations

Høye, Johan S., Iver Brevik, & Kimball A. Milton. (2015). Casimir Friction Between Polarizable Particle and Half-Space with Radiation Damping at Zero Temperature. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Guérout, R., Astrid Lambrecht, Kimball A. Milton, & Serge Reynaud. (2014). Derivation of the Lifshitz-Matsubara sum formula for the Casimir pressure between metallic plane mirrors. Physical Review E. 90(4). 42125–42125. 17 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A.. (2011). Resource Letter: Van der Waals and Casimir-Polder forces. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A. & M. Bordag. (2010). Proceedings of the Ninth conference on quantum field theory under the influence of external conditions (QFEXT 09) : devoted to the centenary of H B G Casmir : University of Oklahoma, USA, 21-25 September 2009. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A., et al.. (2010). Casimir energies of cylinders: Universal function. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(12). 13 indexed citations

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Brevik, Iver, Kimball A. Milton, Shin’ichi Nojiri, & Sergei D. Odintsov. (2001). Quantum (in)stability of a brane-world universe at nonzero temperature. Nuclear Physics B. 599(1-2). 305–318. 65 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A.. (2000). A Quantum Legacy. 3 indexed citations

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Mehra, Jagdish & Kimball A. Milton. (2000). Climbing the mountain: the scientific biography of Julian Schwinger. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 25 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A. & Y. Jack Ng. (1998). Observability of the bulk Casimir effect: Can the dynamical Casimir effect be relevant to sonoluminescence?. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 57(5). 5504–5510. 50 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A. & Mark A. Samuel. (1983). Workshop on Non-Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. Birkhäuser Boston eBooks. 7 indexed citations

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Bender, Carl M., Kimball A. Milton, & David H. Sharp. (1983). Consistent Formulation of Fermions on a Minkowski Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 51(20). 1815–1818. 61 indexed citations

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Milton, Kimball A. & Lester L. DeRaad. (1978). Strings and gauge invariance. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 19(2). 375–382. 2 indexed citations

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Tsai, Wen‐Tien, Lester L. DeRaad, & Kimball A. Milton. (1975). Resonance-model description of the decay psi (3.1) $Yields$ $pi$$sup +$$pi$$sup -$$gamma$. Physical Review D. 1 indexed citations

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