Nicholas Read

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
7 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Read is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Condensed Matter Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Read has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 2 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Read's work include Quantum and electron transport phenomena (4 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (2 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics (2 papers). Nicholas Read is often cited by papers focused on Quantum and electron transport phenomena (4 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (2 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics (2 papers). Nicholas Read collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. Nicholas Read's co-authors include Gregory Moore, B. I. Halperin, Jack Harris, Yogesh Sharad Patil, Luyao Jiang, Nenad Kralj, S. Das Sarma, Frank Pollmann and Pablo Sala and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Read

7 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Nonabelions in the fractional quantum hall effect 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 1993 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Nonabelions in the fractional quantum hall effect
    1991 2.0k citations Gregory Moore, Nicholas Read Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. Theory of the half-filled Landau level
    1993 1.3k citations B. I. Halperin, Nicholas Read et al. Physical review. B, Condensed matter profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Read United States 6 3.4k 1.9k 500 421 372 7 3.5k
Gergely Zaránd Hungary 37 3.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 487 1.0× 585 1.4× 315 0.8× 145 3.5k
Roger S. K. Mong United States 29 3.2k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 960 1.9× 154 0.4× 279 0.8× 53 3.5k
Kirill Shtengel United States 21 2.0k 0.6× 966 0.5× 346 0.7× 143 0.3× 323 0.9× 53 2.1k
V. Meden Germany 33 3.1k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 317 0.6× 447 1.1× 191 0.5× 105 3.5k
Christoph Karrasch Germany 32 3.1k 0.9× 1.6k 0.8× 310 0.6× 207 0.5× 302 0.8× 83 3.3k
E. H. Rezayi United States 43 6.2k 1.8× 3.4k 1.8× 905 1.8× 920 2.2× 855 2.3× 92 6.4k
Parsa Bonderson United States 20 2.1k 0.6× 886 0.5× 406 0.8× 164 0.4× 393 1.1× 38 2.2k
Martin Greiter Germany 30 4.0k 1.2× 1.6k 0.8× 623 1.2× 212 0.5× 270 0.7× 70 4.3k
Alexander O. Gogolin United Kingdom 27 2.5k 0.8× 1.4k 0.7× 747 1.5× 524 1.2× 134 0.4× 59 3.1k
C. Morais Smith Netherlands 32 2.5k 0.7× 1.0k 0.5× 967 1.9× 223 0.5× 210 0.6× 146 3.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicholas Read

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Read

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Read

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

All Works

7 of 7 papers shown
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Pollmann, Frank, et al.. (2025). Highly Entangled Stationary States from Strong Symmetries. Physical Review X. 15(1). 5 indexed citations
2.
Read, Nicholas & S. Das Sarma. (2023). Clarification of braiding statistics in Fabry–Perot interferometry. Nature Physics. 20(3). 381–382. 5 indexed citations
3.
Patil, Yogesh Sharad, et al.. (2022). Measuring the knot of non-Hermitian degeneracies and non-commuting braids. Nature. 607(7918). 271–275. 82 indexed citations
4.
Read, Nicholas, et al.. (2019). Non-Hermitian adiabatic transport in the space of exceptional points. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 3 indexed citations
5.
Read, Nicholas. (2012). Topological phases and quasiparticle braiding. Physics Today. 65(7). 38–43. 29 indexed citations
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Halperin, B. I., et al.. (1993). Theory of the half-filled Landau level. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 47(12). 7312–7343. 1325 indexed citations breakdown →
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Moore, Gregory & Nicholas Read. (1991). Nonabelions in the fractional quantum hall effect. Nuclear Physics B. 360(2-3). 362–396. 2042 indexed citations breakdown →

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