Roderich Moessner

23.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
344 papers, 16.9k citations indexed

About

Roderich Moessner is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, Roderich Moessner has authored 344 papers receiving a total of 16.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 214 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 67 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Roderich Moessner's work include Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (182 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (161 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (137 papers). Roderich Moessner is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (182 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (161 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (137 papers). Roderich Moessner collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Roderich Moessner's co-authors include S. L. Sondhi, J. T. Chalker, Johannes Knolle, Achilleas Lazarides, Arnab Das, A. P. Ramirez, D. L. Kovrizhin, S. L. Sondhi, Frank Pollmann and Balázs Dóra and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roderich Moessner

327 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

Proximate Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid ... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2015 2001 2016 2006 2017 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Proximate Kitaev Quantum Spin Liquid Behaviour in {\alpha}-RuCl$_3$
    2015 737 citations Subhro Bhattacharjee, Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  2. Resonating Valence Bond Phase in the Triangular Lattice Quantum Dimer Model
    2001 619 citations Roderich Moessner, S. L. Sondhi Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems
    2016 583 citations Achilleas Lazarides, Roderich Moessner et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Geometrical frustration
    2006 521 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  5. Neutron scattering in the proximate quantum spin liquid α-RuCl 3
    2017 516 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  6. Dirac Strings and Magnetic Monopoles in the Spin Ice Dy 2 Ti 2 O 7
    2009 427 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  7. Colloquium: Artificial spin ice: Designing and imaging magnetic frustration
    2013 363 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  8. Equilibrium states of generic quantum systems subject to periodic driving
    2014 349 citations Achilleas Lazarides, Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  9. A Field Guide to Spin Liquids
    2018 345 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →
  10. Fate of Many-Body Localization Under Periodic Driving
    2015 274 citations Achilleas Lazarides, Roderich Moessner et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  11. Quantum Many-Body Scars: A Quasiparticle Perspective
    2022 128 citations Roderich Moessner et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roderich Moessner Germany 63 12.0k 9.6k 4.7k 2.2k 1.8k 344 16.9k
Thierry Giamarchi Switzerland 56 9.3k 0.8× 10.7k 1.1× 2.9k 0.6× 2.2k 1.0× 914 0.5× 268 15.0k
Eduardo Fradkin United States 65 11.4k 1.0× 11.1k 1.2× 4.0k 0.9× 2.5k 1.1× 1.0k 0.6× 241 17.0k
Ronny Thomale Germany 59 6.6k 0.5× 9.2k 1.0× 2.6k 0.6× 2.4k 1.1× 1.7k 1.0× 232 12.4k
Sudip Chakravarty United States 47 7.6k 0.6× 8.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.9× 163 13.4k
G. Blatter Switzerland 46 9.4k 0.8× 6.6k 0.7× 3.0k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 477 0.3× 230 12.9k
Eugene Demler United States 82 9.2k 0.8× 24.3k 2.5× 2.1k 0.4× 2.4k 1.1× 3.0k 1.7× 392 27.3k
Achim Rosch Germany 55 10.3k 0.9× 13.1k 1.4× 6.7k 1.4× 2.5k 1.1× 524 0.3× 182 17.0k
Leon Balents United States 78 17.9k 1.5× 18.6k 1.9× 6.7k 1.4× 9.7k 4.4× 913 0.5× 249 28.7k
Joel E. Moore United States 63 6.5k 0.5× 15.5k 1.6× 1.5k 0.3× 8.1k 3.7× 1.7k 0.9× 223 18.4k
Chetan Nayak United States 53 7.7k 0.6× 13.2k 1.4× 1.4k 0.3× 2.9k 1.3× 1.0k 0.6× 147 15.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benton, Owen, et al.. (2025). Fragile spin liquid in three dimensions. Physical review. B.. 111(13). 3 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2024). Exploiting polarization dependence in two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy: Examples of Ce2Zr2O7 and Nd2Zr2O7. Physical review. B.. 109(10). 6 indexed citations
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Yahne, D. R., Owen Benton, Roderich Moessner, et al.. (2024). Dipolar Spin Ice Regime Proximate to an All-In-All-Out Néel Ground State in the Dipolar-Octupolar Pyrochlore Ce2Sn2O7. Physical Review X. 14(1). 13 indexed citations
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Bobowski, J. S., James Day, Mohamed Oudah, et al.. (2024). Nonlocal Electrodynamics in Ultrapure PdCoO2. Physical Review X. 14(1). 2 indexed citations
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Yan, Han, Owen Benton, Andriy H. Nevidomskyy, & Roderich Moessner. (2024). Classification of classical spin liquids: Detailed formalism and suite of examples. Physical review. B.. 109(17). 17 indexed citations
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Yan, Han, Owen Benton, Roderich Moessner, & Andriy H. Nevidomskyy. (2024). Classification of classical spin liquids: Typology and resulting landscape. Physical review. B.. 110(2). 16 indexed citations
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Benton, Owen, et al.. (2024). Irrational Moments and Signatures of Higher-Rank Gauge Theories in Diluted Classical Spin Liquids. Physical Review Letters. 133(10). 106501–106501. 3 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2023). Mobility edges through inverted quantum many-body scarring. Physical review. B.. 108(10). 7 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2023). Time-reversal invariant finite-size topology. Physical review. B.. 108(12). 5 indexed citations
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Benton, Owen, et al.. (2023). Abundance of Hard-Hexagon Crystals in the Quantum Pyrochlore Antiferromagnet. Physical Review Letters. 131(9). 9 indexed citations
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Yahne, D. R., J. Beare, Jonathan Gaudet, et al.. (2023). Quantum spin ice response to a magnetic field in the dipole-octupole pyrochlore Ce2Zr2O7. Physical review. B.. 108(5). 14 indexed citations
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Tang, Nan, Kenta Kimura, Subhro Bhattacharjee, et al.. (2022). Spin–orbital liquid state and liquid–gas metamagnetic transition on a pyrochlore lattice. Nature Physics. 19(1). 92–98. 13 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2022). Non-Hermitian dislocation modes: Stability and melting across exceptional points. Physical review. B.. 106(4). 29 indexed citations
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Roy, Sthitadhi, Roderich Moessner, & Achilleas Lazarides. (2021). How periodic driving stabilizes and destabilizes Anderson localization on random trees. Physical review. B.. 103(10). 1 indexed citations
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Sanyal, Sambuddha, Kedar Damle, J. T. Chalker, & Roderich Moessner. (2021). Emergent Moments and Random Singlet Physics in a Majorana Spin Liquid. Physical Review Letters. 127(12). 127201–127201. 13 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2021). Interacting spin-32 fermions in a Luttinger semimetal: Competing phases and their selection in the global phase diagram. Physical review. B.. 103(16). 12 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2020). Strain-engineered higher-order topological phases for spin-32 Luttinger fermions. Physical review. B.. 101(12). 17 indexed citations
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Moessner, Roderich, et al.. (2020). Hierarchy of energy scales and field-tunable order by disorder in dipolar-octupolar pyrochlores. Physical review. B.. 102(24). 10 indexed citations
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Sikora, Olga, Owen Benton, Nic Shannon, et al.. (2012). Quantum Ice : A Quantum Monte Carlo Study. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2012. 2 indexed citations
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Laumann, Chris R., Roderich Moessner, Antonello Scardicchio, & S. L. Sondhi. (2009). Phase transitions in random quantum satisfiability. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.

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