Leon Gunther

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
66 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Leon Gunther is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Gunther has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 31 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Leon Gunther's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (17 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (16 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers). Leon Gunther is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (17 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (16 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (16 papers). Leon Gunther collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and France. Leon Gunther's co-authors include Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Y. Imry, Leonard Gruenberg, B. Barbara, I. Klik, G. Deutscher, J. E. Avron, David J. Bergman, J. Žák and A. Großmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Journal of Applied Physics.

In The Last Decade

Leon Gunther

65 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in Small Ferromagnetic... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 100 200 300 400
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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. Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization in Small Ferromagnetic Particles
    1988 447 citations Leon Gunther et al. 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
Leon Gunther United States 23 1.2k 1.1k 895 547 294 66 2.4k
D. L. Huber United States 24 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 521 0.6× 981 1.8× 129 0.4× 121 2.7k
B. Barbara France 30 1.6k 1.3× 1.8k 1.5× 1.7k 1.9× 1.1k 2.0× 96 0.3× 119 3.3k
D. A. Garanin United States 28 2.2k 1.8× 1.2k 1.1× 1.6k 1.8× 906 1.7× 332 1.1× 131 3.4k
K. Hasselbach France 25 1.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.5× 1.7k 1.9× 950 1.7× 51 0.2× 75 3.2k
F. Waldner Switzerland 19 372 0.3× 470 0.4× 435 0.5× 731 1.3× 123 0.4× 64 1.5k
Rolfe G. Petschek United States 29 742 0.6× 316 0.3× 1.3k 1.5× 964 1.8× 110 0.4× 127 2.6k
G A Gehring United Kingdom 22 968 0.8× 1.3k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 797 1.5× 72 0.2× 73 2.3k
M. G. Pini Italy 24 1.2k 1.0× 940 0.8× 2.2k 2.5× 1.4k 2.5× 70 0.2× 112 3.1k
F. Keffer United States 20 1.1k 0.9× 953 0.8× 906 1.0× 483 0.9× 28 0.1× 32 1.9k
M. Röger France 24 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 533 0.6× 433 0.8× 132 0.4× 83 2.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leon Gunther

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gunther, Leon. (1997). Spin tunneling in a swept magnetic field. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 39(1). 1–6. 65 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1997). Nucleation of the phase of a finite Josephson junction. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter. 9(9). 2075–2084. 2 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon & M. P. Sarachik. (1997). Hysteresis Research Is a Priority Issue. Physics Today. 50(12). 98–100. 1 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon & B. Barbara. (1995). Quantum Tunneling of Magnetization — QTM ’94. 206 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1995). Determination of the energy barrier distribution and prefactor for switching in a heterogeneous magnetic system. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 140-144. 661–662. 6 indexed citations
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Frankel, Richard B., et al.. (1995). The anomalous Mössbauer fraction of ferritin and polysaccharide iron complex (PIC). Hyperfine Interactions. 96(1). 111–138. 9 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1994). Thermally activated escape over time-modulated fluctuating barriers. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 50(2). 770–773. 6 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1994). Motional narrowing and magnetostrictive broadening of the Mössbauer spectrum due to superparamagnetism. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 129(2-3). 334–338. 3 indexed citations
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Barbara, B. & Leon Gunther. (1993). The ‘barrier plot’ as a tool in magnetic relaxation studies. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. 128(1-2). 35–41. 30 indexed citations
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Klik, I. & Leon Gunther. (1990). First-passage-time approach to overbarrier relaxation of magnetization. Journal of Statistical Physics. 60(3-4). 473–484. 92 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon. (1990). An effect on the critical current of a DC SQUID by electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations. Solid State Communications. 75(6). 483–484. 1 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1990). Macroscopic quantum tunneling in unshunted Josephson junctions. Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 78(1-2). 131–139. 4 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1990). Macroscopic quantum tunneling in long Josephson junctions. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 42(1). 930–933. 7 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1989). Evolution of a magnetic bubble after quantum nucleation. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 39(16). 11755–11758. 3 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1983). An exact solution to diffusion via the vacancy mechanism. Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics. 16(10). 1863–1874. 1 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon & Y. Imry. (1980). Self-Diffusion via Sine-Gordon Solitons. Physical Review Letters. 44(18). 1225–1229. 24 indexed citations
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Shapira, Y., C. C. Becerra, S. Foner, et al.. (1976). Magnetostriction and the two-spin correlation function in EuO. Physical review. B, Solid state. 14(7). 3007–3023. 8 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, et al.. (1975). The m�ssbauer effect: A potentially ideal probe into Brownian motion. Journal of Statistical Physics. 12(3). 205–215. 6 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon, David J. Bergman, & Y. Imry. (1971). Renormalized Critical Behavior or First-Order Phase Transitions?. Physical Review Letters. 27(9). 558–561. 51 indexed citations
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Gunther, Leon. (1967). Stability of the finite two-dimensional harmonic lattice. Physics Letters A. 25(9). 649–650. 17 indexed citations

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