Ligong Bian

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Ligong Bian is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ligong Bian has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 41 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ligong Bian's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (40 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (36 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (30 papers). Ligong Bian is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (40 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (36 papers) and Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (30 papers). Ligong Bian collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and United States. Ligong Bian's co-authors include Jing Shu, Ruiyu Zhou, Ning Chen, Jing Liu, Rong-Gen Cai, Zong‐Kuan Guo, W. S. Cheng, Shao-Jiang Wang, W. Huang and Yongchao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Ligong Bian

52 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Primordial black hole production during first-order phase... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 25 50 75
What are hit papers?

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. Primordial black hole production during first-order phase transitions
    2022 98 citations Jing Liu, Ligong Bian et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ligong Bian China 22 1.0k 874 63 42 35 54 1.2k
Gláuber C. Dorsch United Kingdom 9 696 0.7× 723 0.8× 61 1.0× 39 0.9× 45 1.3× 13 879
Fa Peng Huang China 16 610 0.6× 631 0.7× 72 1.1× 23 0.5× 23 0.7× 34 743
Kai Schmitz Germany 23 1.3k 1.3× 1.3k 1.5× 63 1.0× 120 2.9× 26 0.7× 55 1.6k
Djuna Croon United Kingdom 17 636 0.6× 743 0.9× 65 1.0× 31 0.7× 15 0.4× 35 857
М. С. Пширков Russia 16 660 0.6× 799 0.9× 72 1.1× 54 1.3× 9 0.3× 45 985
Benjamin Shlaer United States 11 487 0.5× 603 0.7× 48 0.8× 30 0.7× 22 0.6× 15 662
Anastasios Avgoustidis United Kingdom 16 522 0.5× 672 0.8× 44 0.7× 23 0.5× 13 0.4× 40 756
Andreas Helset United States 15 597 0.6× 496 0.6× 50 0.8× 17 0.4× 9 0.3× 27 727
Natsumi Nagata Japan 25 1.8k 1.8× 1.1k 1.2× 184 2.9× 19 0.5× 31 0.9× 77 1.9k
Yanou Cui United States 23 1.3k 1.3× 1.0k 1.2× 78 1.2× 39 0.9× 23 0.7× 48 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ligong Bian

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ligong Bian

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2025). Cosmic simulations of axion: probing dark matter and gravitational waves. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(8). 91–91. 2 indexed citations
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Gao, Fei, et al.. (2025). Quantitative analysis of the gravitational wave spectrum sourced from a first-order chiral phase transition of QCD. Physical review. D. 111(2). 5 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2025). First-order electroweak phase transition with a gauge-invariant approach. Physical review. D. 111(5). 1 indexed citations
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Yang, Li, Yongtao Jia, & Ligong Bian. (2025). Numerical simulation of domain wall and first-order phase transition in an expanding universe. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(2). 38–38.
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Jia, Yongtao & Ligong Bian. (2025). Cosmological simulation of axion-Higgs strings: Gravitational waves and dark matter. Physical review. D. 111(6). 1 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2024). Gravitational wave sources for pulsar timing arrays. Physical review. D. 109(10). 31 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2024). First-order electroweak phase transition at finite density. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(8). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Jing, Ligong Bian, Rong-Gen Cai, Zong‐Kuan Guo, & Shao-Jiang Wang. (2023). Constraining First-Order Phase Transitions with Curvature Perturbations. Physical Review Letters. 130(5). 51001–51001. 25 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2023). Heavy QCD axion model in light of pulsar timing arrays. Physical review. D. 108(11). 18 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2023). Probing the electroweak symmetry breaking history with gravitational waves. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 8 indexed citations
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Deng, Shihao & Ligong Bian. (2023). Constraints on new physics around the MeV scale with cosmological observations. Physical review. D. 108(6). 12 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2022). Searching for cosmic string induced stochastic gravitational wave background with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. Physical review. D. 106(10). 32 indexed citations
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Zhou, Ruiyu & Ligong Bian. (2021). Gravitational waves from cosmic strings after a first-order phase transition *. Chinese Physics C. 46(4). 43104–43104. 5 indexed citations
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Zhou, Ruiyu, et al.. (2021). Magnetic Field and Gravitational Waves from the First-Order Phase Transition. Physical Review Letters. 126(25). 251102–251102. 35 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, Da Liu, & Jing Shu. (2018). Low scale composite Higgs model and 1.8 ∼2 TeV diboson excess. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 33(11). 1841007–1841007. 1 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2018). Dark matter and electroweak phase transition in the mixed scalar dark matter model. Physical review. D. 97(5). 11 indexed citations
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Cheng, W. S. & Ligong Bian. (2018). From inflation to cosmological electroweak phase transition with a complex scalar singlet. Physical review. D. 98(2). 28 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, et al.. (2016). Type-III two Higgs doublet model plus a pseudoscalar confronted with h→μτ, muon g− 2 and dark matter. Nuclear Physics B. 909. 507–524. 24 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong, Tao Liu, & Jing Shu. (2015). Cancellations Between Two-Loop Contributions to the Electron Electric Dipole Moment with aCP-Violating Higgs Sector. Physical Review Letters. 115(2). 21801–21801. 44 indexed citations
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Bian, Ligong. (2013). Renormalization group equation, the naturalness problem, and the understanding of the Higgs mass term. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(5). 8 indexed citations

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