Thomas Schäfer

10.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
132 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Schäfer is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Schäfer has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 53 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Schäfer's work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (79 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (69 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (43 papers). Thomas Schäfer is often cited by papers focused on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (79 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (69 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (43 papers). Thomas Schäfer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Thomas Schäfer's co-authors include Edward Shuryak, Frank Wilczek, Krishna Rajagopal, Mark Alford, Andreas Schmitt, M. Velkovsky, Ralf Rapp, Derek Teaney, Marcus Bluhm and Paulo F. Bedaque and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Schäfer

124 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Color superconductivity in dense quark matter

2008 916 citations Krishna Rajagopal, Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →
Instantons in QCD

1998 883 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →
Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Instantons

1998 613 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter

1999 231 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A Fast Exponential Analysis and Variable Projection-Based Method for Linear Array Synthesis 2025 ·IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Annie Cuyt, (unknown), Thomas Schäfer, A.B. Smolders	0
2	Beyond fur color: differences in socio-emotional behavior and the oxytocin system between male BL6 and CD1 mice in adolescence and adulthood 2024 ·Frontiers in Neuroscience ·(unknown), Thomas Schäfer, Frank J. Gareis, Elmar Fuchs, (unknown), Anna K. Schmidtner, Anna Bludau, Inga D. Neumann	2
3	Fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation using a maximum entropy distribution 2023 ·Physical review. C ·(unknown), Ulrich Heinz, Thomas Schäfer	6
4	Dynamic scaling of order parameter fluctuations in model B 2023 ·Physical review. D ·(unknown), (unknown), Thomas Schäfer, Vladimir V. Skokov	10
5	N-particle irreducible actions for stochastic fluids 2023 ·Journal of High Energy Physics ·Jingyi Chao, Thomas Schäfer	4
6	Far-off-equilibrium expansion trajectories in the QCD phase diagram 2023 ·Physical review. C ·(unknown), Ulrich Heinz, Thomas Schäfer	5
7	Dynamics of non-Gaussian fluctuations in model A 2022 ·Physical review. D ·Thomas Schäfer, Vladimir V. Skokov	12
8	Dissipative superfluid hydrodynamics for the unitary Fermi gas 2021 ·Physical review. A ·(unknown), Thomas Schäfer	0
9	Transasymptotics and hydrodynamization of the Fokker-Planck equation for gluons 2021 ·Physical review. D ·Alireza Behtash, Syo Kamata, Mauricio Martínez, Thomas Schäfer, Vladimir V. Skokov	13
10	Flow of Hagedorn singularities and phase transitions in large N gauge theories 2020 ·Physical review. D ·Aleksey Cherman, Syo Kamata, Thomas Schäfer, Mithat Ünsal	2
11	QCD equation of state matched to lattice data and exhibiting a critical point singularity 2020 ·Physical review. C ·Paolo Parotto, Marcus Bluhm, Débora Mroczek, Marlene Nahrgang, Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler, Krishna Rajagopal, Claudia Ratti, Thomas Schäfer, Mikhail Stephanov	95
12	Critical behavior of the bulk viscosity in QCD 2019 ·Physical review. D ·Mauricio Martínez, Thomas Schäfer, Vladimir V. Skokov	31
13	Fluctuating fluid dynamics for the QGP in the LHC and BES era 2018 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Marcus Bluhm, Marlene Nahrgang, Thomas Schäfer, Steffen A. Bass	11
14	Toward the description of fluid dynamical fluctuations in heavy-ion\n collisions 2017 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Marlene Nahrgang, Marcus Bluhm, Thomas Schäfer, Steffen A. Bass	12
15	Chiral Lagrangian from Duality and Monopole Operators in Compactified QCD 2016 ·Physical Review Letters ·Aleksey Cherman, Thomas Schäfer, Mithat Ünsal	35
16	1 What atomic liquids can teach us about quark liquids 2007 ·CERN Bulletin ·Thomas Schäfer	7
17	From Trapped Atoms to Liberated Quarks 2006 ·CERN Bulletin ·Thomas Schäfer	3
18	Phases of QCD 2005 ·Thomas Schäfer	1
19	Komposition als Kommunikation : zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts 2000 ·P. Lang eBooks ·(unknown), (unknown), Thomas Schäfer	1
20	Imperii Insignia : Sella curulis und Fasces zur Repräsentation Römischer Magistrate 1989 ·Thomas Schäfer	14

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