Markus Heyl

8.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
82 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Markus Heyl is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Heyl has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 31 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 30 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Markus Heyl's work include Quantum many-body systems (72 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (23 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (23 papers). Markus Heyl is often cited by papers focused on Quantum many-body systems (72 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (23 papers) and Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (23 papers). Markus Heyl collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and Italy. Markus Heyl's co-authors include Philipp Hauke, Stefan Kehrein, Anatoli Polkovnikov, Jan Carl Budich, P. Zoller, Marcello Dalmonte, R. Blatt, Markus Schmitt, David A. Huse and C. Monroe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

Markus Heyl

81 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Many-body localization in a quantum simulator with programmable random disorder

2016 635 citations Philipp Hauke, Markus Heyl et al. Nature Physics profile →
Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in the Transverse-Field Ising Model

2013 590 citations Markus Heyl, Anatoli Polkovnikov et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer

2016 519 citations Esteban A. Martinez, Christine A. Muschik et al. Nature profile →
Dynamical quantum phase transitions: a review

2018 448 citations Markus Heyl profile →
Direct Observation of Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in an Interacting Many-Body System

2017 364 citations Philipp Hauke, Markus Heyl et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Observation of dynamical vortices after quenches in a system with topology

2017 262 citations Markus Heyl et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Markus Heyl Germany	32	5.2k	1.8k	1.7k	1.3k	198	82	5.6k
Sarang Gopalakrishnan United States	42	5.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.3×	125 0.6×	145	5.5k
Marcello Dalmonte Italy	36	5.1k 1.0×	906 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.9×	439 2.2×	99	5.5k
Marko Žnidarič Slovenia	32	3.8k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.9×	108 0.5×	81	4.1k
Alessandro Silva Italy	35	4.7k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	1.0k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	168 0.8×	84	5.0k
Nicolas Laflorencie France	28	3.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	780 0.4×	2.0k 1.5×	173 0.9×	82	4.1k
Luigi Amico Italy	26	5.8k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	3.3k 1.9×	1.2k 0.9×	218 1.1×	100	6.2k
Vedika Khemani United States	18	3.3k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	713 0.4×	1.0k 0.8×	123 0.6×	22	3.5k
E. Rico Spain	26	5.3k 1.0×	895 0.5×	2.5k 1.4×	1.2k 0.9×	559 2.8×	41	5.6k
M. Eric Tai United States	11	3.6k 0.7×	878 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	784 0.6×	128 0.6×	17	3.8k
Corinna Kollath Germany	39	5.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	838 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	79 0.4×	104	5.8k

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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2025). Active Quantum Flocks. Physical Review Letters. 135(24). 248302–248302.

Cui, Jian, et al.. (2025). Characterizing dynamical criticality of many-body localization transitions from a Fock-space perspective. Physical review. B.. 111(9). 1 indexed citations

Schmitt, Markus, Álex Rodríguez, H. J. Williams, et al.. (2024). Wave-Function Network Description and Kolmogorov Complexity of Quantum Many-Body Systems. Physical Review X. 14(2). 5 indexed citations

Heyl, Markus, et al.. (2024). Simplicity of mean-field theories in neural quantum states. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 3 indexed citations

Heyl, Markus, et al.. (2024). Empowering deep neural quantum states through efficient optimization. Nature Physics. 20(9). 1476–1481. 36 indexed citations

Zhao, Hongzheng, Marin Bukov, Markus Heyl, & Roderich Moessner. (2023). Making Trotterization Adaptive and Energy-Self-Correcting for NISQ Devices and Beyond. PRX Quantum. 4(3). 21 indexed citations

Zhang, Jiaju, et al.. (2023). Identifying Quantum Many-Body Integrability and Chaos Using Eigenstate Trace Distances. Physical Review Letters. 131(21). 1 indexed citations

Heyl, Markus, et al.. (2023). Anomalous relaxation of density waves in a ring-exchange system. Physical review. E. 107(3). 34119–34119. 1 indexed citations

Heyl, Markus, et al.. (2022). Disorder-free localization transition in a two-dimensional lattice gauge theory. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations

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Russomanno, Angelo, Michele Fava, & Markus Heyl. (2021). Quantum chaos and ensemble inequivalence of quantum long-range Ising chains. Physical review. B.. 104(9). 17 indexed citations

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Huang, Yi-Ping, et al.. (2021). Disorder-Free Localization in an Interacting 2D Lattice Gauge Theory. Physical Review Letters. 126(13). 130401–130401. 51 indexed citations

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Heyl, Markus, et al.. (2021). Finite-temperature critical behavior of long-range quantum Ising models. SciPost Physics. 11(4). 20 indexed citations

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Liu, Fangli, et al.. (2020). Real-time dynamics of string breaking in quantum spin chains. Physical review. B.. 102(1). 42 indexed citations

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Muschik, Christine A., Esteban A. Martinez, Philipp Schindler, et al.. (2018). Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Ardila, Luis A. Peña, Markus Heyl, & André Eckardt. (2018). Measuring the Single-Particle Density Matrix for Fermions and Hard-Core Bosons in an Optical Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 121(26). 260401–260401. 17 indexed citations

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Martinez, Esteban A., Christine A. Muschik, Philipp Schindler, et al.. (2016). Real-time dynamics of lattice gauge theories with a few-qubit quantum computer. Nature. 534(7608). 516–519. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heyl, Markus. (2015). Scaling and Universality at Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions. Physical Review Letters. 115(14). 140602–140602. 177 indexed citations

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Heyl, Markus & Matthias Vojta. (2014). Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking during Quantum Real-Time Evolution in a Minimal Model System. Physical Review Letters. 113(18). 180601–180601. 2 indexed citations

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Heyl, Markus. (2014). Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in Systems with Broken-Symmetry Phases. Physical Review Letters. 113(20). 205701–205701. 155 indexed citations

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Heyl, Markus, Anatoli Polkovnikov, & Stefan Kehrein. (2013). Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions in the Transverse-Field Ising Model. Physical Review Letters. 110(13). 135704–135704. 590 indexed citations breakdown →

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