Stefan Boettcher

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
106 papers, 7.6k citations indexed

About

Stefan Boettcher is a scholar working on Condensed Matter Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefan Boettcher has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 7.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Condensed Matter Physics, 39 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 27 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Stefan Boettcher's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (52 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (24 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers). Stefan Boettcher is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (52 papers), Complex Network Analysis Techniques (24 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers). Stefan Boettcher collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Stefan Boettcher's co-authors include Carl M. Bender, Peter N. Meisinger, Allon G. Percus, Maya Paczuski, Robert M. Ziff, Stefan Falkner, Vijay Singh, Van M. Savage, Marco Baiesi and Renato Portugal and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Stefan Boettcher

105 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians HavingPTSymmetry 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 1999 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians HavingPTSymmetry
    1998 4.5k citations Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. 𝓟𝓣-symmetric quantum mechanics
    1999 917 citations Carl M. Bender, Stefan Boettcher et al. Journal of Mathematical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stefan Boettcher United States 25 5.7k 4.9k 796 750 445 106 7.6k
Giulio Casati Italy 51 5.4k 1.0× 6.4k 1.3× 864 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 533 1.2× 248 10.1k
M. Lakshmanan India 53 3.8k 0.7× 9.5k 1.9× 337 0.4× 362 0.5× 920 2.1× 385 11.3k
Dima L. Shepelyansky France 41 4.0k 0.7× 4.3k 0.9× 849 1.1× 948 1.3× 269 0.6× 244 6.3k
Naomichi Hatano Japan 29 2.4k 0.4× 2.2k 0.4× 603 0.8× 317 0.4× 246 0.6× 130 5.2k
F. M. Izrailev Mexico 37 4.1k 0.7× 3.7k 0.8× 885 1.1× 391 0.5× 242 0.5× 144 5.6k
Stefano Ruffo Italy 38 2.0k 0.4× 4.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 242 0.3× 264 0.6× 187 5.9k
M. B. Hastings United States 30 3.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 1.5k 1.8× 1.5k 2.0× 173 0.4× 73 4.5k
Yan V. Fyodorov United Kingdom 36 2.1k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 242 0.3× 873 2.0× 118 4.0k
Hidetoshi Nishimori Japan 33 2.0k 0.4× 1.1k 0.2× 2.3k 2.8× 2.9k 3.9× 316 0.7× 153 6.0k
N. N. Bogolyubov Ukraine 18 1.8k 0.3× 1.7k 0.3× 476 0.6× 254 0.3× 528 1.2× 113 5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefan Boettcher

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stefan Boettcher

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefan Boettcher

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

All Works

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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2022). Transport and localization in quantum walks on a random hierarchy of barriers. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(26). 264001–264001. 1 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, Paula A. Gago, & Paolo Sibani. (2021). Extreme fluctuations driving the relaxation in glassy energy landscapes. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 587. 126522–126522. 1 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2017). Renormalization group for a continuous-time quantum search in finite dimensions. Physical review. A. 95(3). 14 indexed citations
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Singh, Vijay & Stefan Boettcher. (2014). Scaling of clusters near discontinuous percolation transitions in hyperbolic networks. Physical Review E. 90(1). 12117–12117. 13 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2011). Fixed-point properties of the Ising ferromagnet on the Hanoi networks. Physical Review E. 83(2). 21103–21103. 18 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2011). Quantum transport through hierarchical structures. Physical Review E. 83(4). 41106–41106. 9 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan & Alexander K. Hartmann. (2011). Optimal vertex cover for the small-world Hanoi networks. Physical Review E. 84(1). 11108–11108. 2 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan. (2008). Extremal Optimization for Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Spin Glasses. 35 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2005). Exact enumeration of ground states in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass. Physical Review B. 72(21). 7 indexed citations
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Paczuski, Maya, Stefan Boettcher, & Marco Baiesi. (2005). Interoccurrence Times in the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld Sandpile Model: A Comparison with the Observed Statistics of Solar Flares. Physical Review Letters. 95(18). 181102–181102. 76 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan, et al.. (2004). Spines of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems: Definition and Impact on Computational Complexity.. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan. (2004). Extremal Optimization. arXiv (Cornell University). 227–251. 2 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan & Allon G. Percus. (2004). Extremal optimization at the phase transition of the three-coloring problem. Physical Review E. 69(6). 66703–66703. 47 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan. (2003). Determining Stiffness Exponents from the Reduction of Dilute Lattice Spin Glasses. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan. (2003). Reduction of spin glasses applied to the Migdal-Kadanoff hierarchical lattice. The European Physical Journal B. 33(4). 439–445. 13 indexed citations
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Boettcher, Stefan. (2002). Evolutionary local-search with extremal optimization. Neural, Parallel & Scientific Computations archive. 10(2). 249–258. 1 indexed citations
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Bender, Carl M. & Stefan Boettcher. (1998). Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians HavingPTSymmetry. Physical Review Letters. 80(24). 5243–5246. 4498 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bender, Carl M. & Stefan Boettcher. (1993). Dimensional expansion for the Ising limit of quantum field theory. arXiv (Cornell University). 48(10). 4919–4923. 37 indexed citations
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Bender, Carl M., Stefan Boettcher, & Kimball A. Milton. (1991). A new perturbative approach to nonlinear partial differential equations. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 32(11). 3031–3038. 24 indexed citations

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