N. Read

16.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
108 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

N. Read is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, N. Read has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 73 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in N. Read's work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (61 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (25 papers). N. Read is often cited by papers focused on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (61 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers) and Theoretical and Computational Physics (25 papers). N. Read collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. N. Read's co-authors include Dmitry Green, Subir Sachdev, E. H. Rezayi, P. A. Lee, D. M. Newns, C. L. Kane, D. M. Newns, Bulbul Chakraborty, Hubert Saleur and Barry Bradlyn 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

N. Read

107 papers receiving 12.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Paired states of fermions in two dimensions with breaking of parity and time-reversal symmetries and the fractional quantum Hall effect

2000 2.4k citations N. Read et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Large-Nexpansion for frustrated quantum antiferromagnets

1991 669 citations N. Read, Subir Sachdev Physical Review Letters profile →
Beyond paired quantum Hall states: Parafermions and incompressible states in the first excited Landau level

1999 643 citations N. Read, E. H. Rezayi Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Motion of a single hole in a quantum antiferromagnet

1989 637 citations N. Read et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →
Valence-bond and spin-Peierls ground states of low-dimensional quantum antiferromagnets

1989 516 citations N. Read, Subir Sachdev Physical Review Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Smallholder decision-making and its misalignment with sustainable development goal 2 (Zero Hunger) 2025 ·Agriculture and Human Values ·Brian R. Cook, Van Touch, (unknown), Thong Anh Tran, Nicholas Harrigan, N. Read, (unknown), (unknown)	0
2	Proof of Single-Replica Equivalence in Short-Range Spin Glasses 2023 ·Physical Review Letters ·Charles M. Newman, N. Read, D. L. Stein	4
3	One-step replica-symmetry-breaking phase below the de Almeida–Thouless line in low-dimensional spin glasses 2020 ·Physical review. E ·(unknown), N. Read	12
4	Triviality of the ground-state metastate in long-range Ising spin glasses in one dimension 2018 ·Physical review. E ·N. Read	2
5	Comment on “Elementary formula for the Hall conductivity of interacting systems” 2014 ·Physical Review B ·Steven H. Simon, Fenner Harper, N. Read	2
6	Short-range Ising spin glasses: The metastate interpretation of replica symmetry breaking 2014 ·Physical Review E ·N. Read	22
7	Entanglement Spectra of Complex Paired Superfluids 2011 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jérôme Dubail, N. Read	41
8	Theory of minimum spanning trees. I. Mean-field theory and strongly disordered spin-glass model 2010 ·Physical Review E ·(unknown), N. Read	41
9	Theory of minimum spanning trees. II. Exact graphical methods and perturbation expansion at the percolation threshold 2010 ·Physical Review E ·(unknown), N. Read	17
10	Conformal invariance of chiral edge theories 2009 ·Physical Review B ·N. Read	58
11	Minimum spanning trees and random resistor networks inddimensions 2005 ·Physical Review E ·N. Read	6
12	Incompressible Liquid State of Rapidly Rotating Bosons at Filling Factor3/2 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·E. H. Rezayi, N. Read, Nigel R. Cooper	58
13	Localization in disordered superconducting wires with broken spin-rotation symmetry 2005 ·Physical Review B ·Ilya A. Gruzberg, N. Read, Smitha Vishveshwara	74
14	Traveling Salesman Problem, Conformal Invariance, and Dense Polymers 2004 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, N. Read, Hubert Saleur	11
15	Exponents and bounds for uniform spanning trees inddimensions 2004 ·Physical Review E ·N. Read	2
16	Radiation-Induced Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a 2D Electron Gas 2003 ·Physical Review Letters ·Adam C. Durst, Subir Sachdev, N. Read, S. M. Girvin	298
17	Dense Loops, Supersymmetry, and Goldstone Phases in Two Dimensions 2003 ·Physical Review Letters ·Jesper Lykke Jacobsen, N. Read, Hubert Saleur	64
18	Thermal metal in network models of a disordered two-dimensional superconductor 2001 ·Physical review. B, Condensed matter ·J. T. Chalker, N. Read, V. Kagalovsky, B. Horovitz, Y. Avishai, Arne Ludwig	78
19	Directed waves in random media 1992 ·Physical Review A ·Lawrence K. Saul, Mehran Kardar, N. Read	25
20	Fermi liquid description of La2−xSrxCuO4 1988 ·Physica C Superconductivity ·Gabriel Kotliar, (unknown), N. Read	95

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