Rainer Sommer

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
51 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Rainer Sommer is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rainer Sommer has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 8 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Rainer Sommer's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (37 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (28 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (25 papers). Rainer Sommer is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (37 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (28 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (25 papers). Rainer Sommer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Rainer Sommer's co-authors include Marc Hiller, Steffen Bernet, Michele Della Morte, B. Blossier, Georg von Hippel, Tereza Mendes, Ulli Wolff, Juri Rolf, Jochen Heitger and Francesco Knechtli and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Reports, Nuclear Physics B and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

In The Last Decade

Rainer Sommer

50 papers receiving 2.7k 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.

Modulation, Losses, and Semiconductor Requirements of Modular Multilevel Converters

2009 813 citations Marc Hiller, Rainer Sommer et al. profile →
A new way to set the energy scale in lattice gauge theories and its application to the static force and σs in SU (2) Yang-Mills theory

1994 601 citations Rainer Sommer Nuclear Physics B profile →

Peers

Rainer Sommer

NHEP

EEE

CMP

CSE

AMPO

Junji Morikawa Japan

R. Meinke United States

M. M. Hindi United States

G. Marchiori Italy

J. Tompkins United States

M. Vijaya Santhi India

R.R. Khayrutdinov Russia

Hiroshi Matsuoka Japan

D. Raju India

C. Gatti Italy

Junji Morikawa Japan

Rainer Sommer

442 ×0.2

NHEP

302 ×0.3

EEE

80 ×0.3

CMP

24 ×0.2

CSE

194 ×2.1

AMPO

Citations per year, relative to Rainer Sommer Rainer Sommer (= 1×) peers Junji Morikawa

Countries citing papers authored by Rainer Sommer

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Rainer Sommer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rainer Sommer

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Engel, Georg P., et al.. (2014). Chiral condensate from the Banks-Casher relation. Proceedings of 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory LATTICE 2013 — PoS(LATTICE 2013). 119–119. 4 indexed citations

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Bernardoni, Fabio, B. Blossier, John Bulava, et al.. (2014). The b-quark mass from non-perturbative Nf=2 Heavy Quark Effective Theory at O(1/mh). Physics Letters B. 730. 171–177. 16 indexed citations

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Bernardoni, Fabio, et al.. (2014). Precision lattice QCD computation of theB⁎Bπcoupling. Physics Letters B. 740. 278–284. 26 indexed citations

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Bernardoni, Fabio, B. Blossier, John Bulava, et al.. (2014). Decay constants of B-mesons from non-perturbative HQET with two light dynamical quarks. Physics Letters B. 735. 349–356. 18 indexed citations

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Blossier, B., Michele Della Morte, Nicolas Garrón, & Rainer Sommer. (2010). HQET at order 1/m: I. Non-perturbative parameters in the quenched approximation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010(6). 17 indexed citations

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Blossier, B., Michele Della Morte, Nicolas Garrón, et al.. (2010). HQET at order 1/m: II. Spectroscopy in the quenched approximation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010(5). 16 indexed citations

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Blossier, B., Michele Della Morte, Georg von Hippel, Tereza Mendes, & Rainer Sommer. (2009). On the generalized eigenvalue method for energies and matrix elements in lattice field theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(4). 94–94. 257 indexed citations

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Morte, Michele Della, Patrick Fritzsch, Harvey B. Meyer, et al.. (2008). Scaling test of two-flavorO(a)-improved lattice QCD. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008(7). 37–37. 6 indexed citations

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Hiller, Marc, et al.. (2008). Converter Topologies and Power Semiconductors for Industrial Medium Voltage Converters. 1–8. 23 indexed citations

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Hiller, Marc, et al.. (2007). A new 7.2kV medium voltage 3-Level-NPC inverter using 6.5kV-IGBTs. 1–9. 18 indexed citations

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Sommer, Rainer, et al.. (2007). Comparison of Si- and SiC-powerdiodes in 100A-modules. 1–8. 15 indexed citations

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Meyer, Harvey B., Hubert Simma, Rainer Sommer, et al.. (2006). Exploring the HMC trajectory-length dependence of autocorrelation times in lattice QCD. Computer Physics Communications. 176(2). 91–97. 25 indexed citations

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Morte, Michele Della, R. Frezzotti, Jochen Heitger, et al.. (2005). Computation of the strong coupling in QCD with two dynamical flavors. Nuclear Physics B. 713(1-3). 378–406. 108 indexed citations

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Morte, Michele Della, Roland Hoffmann, & Rainer Sommer. (2005). Non-perturbative improvement of the axial current for dynamical Wilson fermions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(3). 29–29. 38 indexed citations

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Dürr, Stephan, Andreas Jüttner, Juri Rolf, & Rainer Sommer. (2004). Signal at subleading order in lattice HQET ∗†.

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Sommer, Rainer, Sinya Aoki, Michele Della Morte, et al.. (2003). 1 Large cutoff effects of dynamical Wilson fermions ∗. 20 indexed citations

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Doncker, Rik W. De, et al.. (2003). Snubberless operation of series connected 6.5 kV IGBTs for high-power and high-voltage applications. RWTH Publications (RWTH Aachen). 6 indexed citations

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Knechtli, Francesco, Michele Della Morte, Juri Rolf, et al.. (2002). 1 Running quark mass in two flavor QCD ∗. 8 indexed citations

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Sommer, Rainer. (1994). A new way to set the energy scale in lattice gauge theories and its application to the static force and σs in SU (2) Yang-Mills theory. Nuclear Physics B. 411(2-3). 839–854. 601 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sommer, Rainer. (1987). Chromoflux distribution in lattice QCD. Nuclear Physics B. 291. 673–691. 44 indexed citations

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