M. B. Hastings

7.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
73 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

M. B. Hastings is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. B. Hastings has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 32 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 19 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in M. B. Hastings's work include Quantum many-body systems (25 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (21 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (16 papers). M. B. Hastings is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (25 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (21 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (16 papers). M. B. Hastings collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. M. B. Hastings's co-authors include Frank Verstraete, Sergey Bravyi, Xiao-Gang Wen, Mari Carmen Bañuls, J. I. Cirac, C. Reichhardt, Terry A. Loring, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, Dmitry Mozyrsky and Ivar Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

M. B. Hastings

73 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

An area law for one-dimensional quantum systems 2004 2026 2011 2018 2007 2004 2006 200 400 600
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. An area law for one-dimensional quantum systems
    2007 652 citations M. B. Hastings Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment profile →
  2. Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in higher dimensions
    2004 434 citations M. B. Hastings Physical Review B profile →
  3. Lieb-Robinson Bounds and the Generation of Correlations and Topological Quantum Order
    2006 428 citations M. B. Hastings, Frank Verstraete 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
M. B. Hastings United States 30 3.5k 1.5k 1.5k 1.1k 281 73 4.5k
Gerardo Ortíz United States 42 4.6k 1.3× 1.5k 1.0× 2.1k 1.4× 614 0.6× 519 1.8× 181 5.9k
Matthew B. Hastings United States 32 3.2k 0.9× 2.1k 1.4× 969 0.7× 616 0.6× 280 1.0× 68 4.2k
Michael Levin United States 27 4.9k 1.4× 760 0.5× 2.4k 1.7× 660 0.6× 356 1.3× 70 5.5k
Sarang Gopalakrishnan United States 42 5.1k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 1.8k 1.2× 1.8k 1.7× 221 0.8× 145 5.5k
M. A. Martín-Delgado Spain 41 4.7k 1.3× 2.8k 1.9× 1.2k 0.8× 644 0.6× 277 1.0× 136 5.7k
Jonathan Simon United States 28 5.4k 1.5× 1.5k 1.0× 663 0.5× 760 0.7× 390 1.4× 75 6.1k
Andrew J. Daley United Kingdom 40 6.2k 1.8× 2.2k 1.5× 1.3k 0.9× 1.0k 1.0× 180 0.6× 125 6.7k
Tobias J. Osborne Germany 31 3.8k 1.1× 2.4k 1.6× 897 0.6× 876 0.8× 59 0.2× 91 4.7k
Dima L. Shepelyansky France 41 4.0k 1.1× 948 0.6× 849 0.6× 4.3k 4.0× 151 0.5× 244 6.3k
Zhenghan Wang United States 27 2.9k 0.8× 755 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 323 0.3× 182 0.6× 96 3.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hastings, M. B.. (2018). A Short Path Quantum Algorithm for Exact Optimization. Quantum. 2. 78–78. 9 indexed citations
2.
Gottesman, Daniel & M. B. Hastings. (2010). Entanglement versus gap for one-dimensional spin systems. New Journal of Physics. 12(2). 25002–25002. 43 indexed citations
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Bañuls, Mari Carmen, M. B. Hastings, Frank Verstraete, & J. I. Cirac. (2009). Matrix Product States for Dynamical Simulation of Infinite Chains. Physical Review Letters. 102(24). 240603–240603. 123 indexed citations
4.
Hastings, M. B.. (2008). Topology and phases in fermionic systems. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2008(1). L01001–L01001. 14 indexed citations
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Ben‐Naim, E., et al.. (2007). Statistics of partial minima. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 40(47). F1021–F1030. 1 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2007). Entropy and entanglement in quantum ground states. Physical Review B. 76(3). 119 indexed citations
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Mozyrsky, Dmitry, et al.. (2006). 間欠的なポーラロン動力学 平衡からずれたBorn-Oppenheimer近似. Physical Review B. 73(3). 1–35104. 9 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B. & Christopher Mudry. (2006). Universal Scaling Relations in Strongly Anisotropic Materials. Physical Review Letters. 96(2). 27215–27215. 5 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2006). Community detection as an inference problem. Physical Review E. 74(3). 35102–35102. 123 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2006). Solving gapped Hamiltonians locally. Physical Review B. 73(8). 143 indexed citations
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Reichhardt, C., C. Reichhardt, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, & M. B. Hastings. (2005). Glassy ratchets for collectively interacting particles. Physics Letters A. 342(1-2). 162–167. 5 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2005). Statistical mechanics of interfering links. Physical Review E. 72(1). 15102–15102. 6 indexed citations
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Reichhardt, C. J. Olson, C. J. Olson Reichhardt, C. Reichhardt, et al.. (2004). Ratchet superconducting vortex cellular automata. Physica C Superconductivity. 404(1-4). 266–272. 6 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2004). Lieb-Schultz-Mattis in higher dimensions. Physical Review B. 69(10). 434 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hastings, M. B., C. J. Olson Reichhardt, & C. Reichhardt. (2003). Ratchet Cellular Automata. Physical Review Letters. 90(24). 247004–247004. 53 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B., C. J. Olson Reichhardt, & C. Reichhardt. (2003). Depinning by Fracture in a Glassy Background. Physical Review Letters. 90(9). 98302–98302. 47 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2002). Exact Multifractal Spectra for Arbitrary Laplacian Random Walks. Physical Review Letters. 88(5). 55506–55506. 24 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B., Zahir A. Daya, E. Ben‐Naim, & Robert E. Ecke. (2002). Entropic tightening of vibrated chains. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 66(2). 25102–25102. 19 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B.. (2000). Fermionic mapping for eigenvalue correlation functions of weakly non-Hermitian symplectic ensemble. Nuclear Physics B. 572(3). 535–546. 4 indexed citations
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Hastings, M. B. & Leonid Levitov. (1996). Bragg Resonances for Tunneling Between Edges of a 2D Quantum Hall System. Physical Review Letters. 77(21). 4422–4425. 4 indexed citations

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