Simon Trebst

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
120 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Simon Trebst 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, Simon Trebst has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 80 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 19 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in Simon Trebst's work include Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (72 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (63 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (50 papers). Simon Trebst is often cited by papers focused on Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (72 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (63 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (50 papers). Simon Trebst collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Simon Trebst's co-authors include Matthias Troyer, Johannes Reuther, Ciarán Hickey, Andreas W. W. Ludwig, Maria Hermanns, Ronny Thomale, Leon Balents, Zhenghan Wang, P. Gegenwart and Ulrich H. E. Hansmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Simon Trebst

118 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the Honeycomb Lattice IridatesA2IrO3

2012 577 citations Yogesh Singh, Soham Manni et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Kitaev materials

2022 213 citations Simon Trebst, Ciarán Hickey profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon Trebst Germany	39	3.9k	3.0k	1.4k	621	379	120	5.4k
Tao Xiang China	49	6.1k 1.5×	4.1k 1.4×	3.4k 2.4×	971 1.6×	471 1.2×	238	8.4k
Richard T. Scalettar United States	52	7.0k 1.8×	6.6k 2.2×	2.2k 1.6×	917 1.5×	261 0.7×	266	9.4k
Yong Baek Kim Canada	43	5.5k 1.4×	3.9k 1.3×	2.4k 1.7×	1.4k 2.2×	115 0.3×	228	7.2k
Stefan Weßel Germany	38	3.2k 0.8×	3.5k 1.2×	624 0.4×	929 1.5×	201 0.5×	142	4.9k
Cristian D. Batista United States	45	5.4k 1.4×	3.6k 1.2×	3.2k 2.3×	812 1.3×	181 0.5×	196	7.0k
Hong Yao China	44	3.7k 0.9×	4.9k 1.6×	1.6k 1.1×	2.3k 3.7×	401 1.1×	138	7.1k
J. T. Chalker United Kingdom	44	4.4k 1.1×	4.4k 1.5×	1.2k 0.9×	903 1.5×	560 1.5×	138	6.8k
Diptiman Sen India	37	2.2k 0.6×	4.3k 1.4×	456 0.3×	653 1.1×	531 1.4×	191	5.0k
Adrian Feiguin United States	30	2.8k 0.7×	3.5k 1.2×	939 0.7×	501 0.8×	377 1.0×	116	4.5k
Andreas M. Läuchli Switzerland	50	4.6k 1.2×	5.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.8×	359 0.6×	501 1.3×	140	6.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Simon Trebst

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Fields of papers citing papers by Simon Trebst

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simon Trebst

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Vojta, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Quantum effects on pyrochlore higher-rank U(1) spin liquids: Pinch-line singularities, spin nematics, and connections to oxide materials. Physical Review Research. 7(3). 1 indexed citations

Trebst, Simon, et al.. (2025). Revealing Quadrupolar Excitations with Nonlinear Spectroscopy. Physical Review Letters. 134(10). 106703–106703. 2 indexed citations

DiVincenzo, David P., et al.. (2024). Classical chaos in quantum computers. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 7 indexed citations

Attig, Jan, et al.. (2024). Supersymmetry on the lattice: Geometry, topology, and flat bands. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 3 indexed citations

Hickey, Ciarán, et al.. (2023). Candidate quantum disordered intermediate phase in the Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the maple-leaf lattice. Physical review. B.. 108(24). 12 indexed citations

Zhu, Guoyi, Ji-Yao Chen, Peng Ye, & Simon Trebst. (2023). Topological Fracton Quantum Phase Transitions by Tuning Exact Tensor Network States. Physical Review Letters. 130(21). 216704–216704. 12 indexed citations

Kiese, Dominik, Francesco Ferrari, Nikita Astrakhantsev, et al.. (2023). Pinch-points to half-moons and up in the stars: The kagome skymap. Physical Review Research. 5(1). 18 indexed citations

Schmidt, Heinz–Jürgen, et al.. (2023). Noncoplanar magnetic order in classical square-kagome antiferromagnets. Physical Review Research. 5(4). 8 indexed citations

Trebst, Simon, et al.. (2022). Transmon platform for quantum computing challenged by chaotic fluctuations. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2495–2495. 47 indexed citations

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O’Brien, Kevin, Troels Arnfred Bojesen, Yasuyuki Kato, et al.. (2020). Thermodynamic classification of three-dimensional Kitaev spin liquids. Physical review. B.. 102(7). 23 indexed citations

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Kato, Yasuyuki, Kevin O’Brien, Troels Arnfred Bojesen, et al.. (2020). Chiral spin liquids with crystalline Z2 gauge order in a three-dimensional Kitaev model. Physical review. B.. 101(4). 6 indexed citations

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Dwivedi, Vatsal, et al.. (2020). Partial flux ordering and thermal Majorana metals in higher-order spin liquids. Physical Review Research. 2(4). 5 indexed citations

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Bothe, Hermann, Thomas Happe, Simon Trebst, & Matthias Rögner. (2018). In memory of Achim Trebst (1929–2017): a pioneer of photosynthesis research. Photosynthesis Research. 137(3). 341–359. 1 indexed citations

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Hermanns, Maria, Simon Trebst, & Achim Rosch. (2015). Spin-Peierls Instability of Three-Dimensional Spin Liquids with Majorana Fermi Surfaces. Physical Review Letters. 115(17). 177205–177205. 30 indexed citations

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Bauer, Bela, Łukasz Cincio, Michele Dolfi, et al.. (2014). Chiral spin liquid and emergent anyons in a Kagome lattice Mott insulator. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5137–5137. 1 indexed citations

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Singh, Yogesh, Soham Manni, Johannes Reuther, et al.. (2012). Relevance of the Heisenberg-Kitaev Model for the Honeycomb Lattice IridatesA2IrO3. Physical Review Letters. 108(12). 127203–127203. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ardonne, Eddy, et al.. (2008). Topological stability of anyonic quantum spin chains and formation of new topological liquids. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Trebst, Simon, Eddy Ardonne, Adrian Feiguin, et al.. (2008). Collective States of Interacting Fibonacci Anyons. Physical Review Letters. 101(5). 50401–50401. 61 indexed citations

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Alicea, Jason, Doron L. Bergman, Emanuel Gull, Simon Trebst, & Leon Balents. (2007). Order-by-disorder in frustrated diamond lattice antiferromagnets. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations

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Wu, Yong, Mathias Körner, Simon Trebst, et al.. (2005). Overcoming the slowing down of flat-histogram Monte Carlo simulations: Cluster updates and optimized broad-histogram ensembles. Physical Review E. 72(4). 46704–46704. 13 indexed citations

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