Udo Seifert

24.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
226 papers, 17.6k citations indexed

About

Udo Seifert is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Udo Seifert has authored 226 papers receiving a total of 17.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 117 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 94 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 86 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Udo Seifert's work include Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (115 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (68 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (45 papers). Udo Seifert is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (115 papers), Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior (68 papers) and Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (45 papers). Udo Seifert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Canada and France. Udo Seifert's co-authors include Reinhard Lipowsky, Andre C. Barato, Thomas Speck, Patrick Pietzonka, Karin Berndl, Kay Brandner, Jürgen Döbereiner, Ana‐Sunčana Smith, Michael Wortis and Martin Kraus and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Udo Seifert

224 papers receiving 17.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems and molecular machines

2012 2.0k citations Udo Seifert profile →
Configurations of fluid membranes and vesicles

1997 1.3k citations Udo Seifert profile →
Entropy Production along a Stochastic Trajectory and an Integral Fluctuation Theorem

2005 941 citations Udo Seifert Physical Review Letters profile →
Shape transformations of vesicles: Phase diagram for spontaneous- curvature and bilayer-coupling models

1991 720 citations Udo Seifert et al. profile →
Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for Biomolecular Processes

2015 609 citations Andre C. Barato, Udo Seifert Physical Review Letters profile →
Universal Trade-Off between Power, Efficiency, and Constancy in Steady-State Heat Engines

2018 265 citations Udo Seifert et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Stroboscopic measurements in Markov networks: exact generator reconstruction vs. thermodynamic inference 2025 ·Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical ·M. Bauer, Udo Seifert, (unknown)	0
2	Fluctuating entropy production on the coarse-grained level: Inference and localization of irreversibility 2024 ·Physical Review Research ·(unknown), (unknown), Udo Seifert	7
3	Time-Resolved Statistics of Snippets as General Framework for Model-Free Entropy Estimators 2023 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), (unknown), Udo Seifert	26
4	Thermodynamic inference in partially accessible Markov networks: a unifying perspective from transition-based waiting time distributions 2022 ·OPUS Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) ·(unknown), (unknown), Udo Seifert	59
5	Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation in Interacting Many-Body Systems 2022 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	13
6	Quality of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation for fast and slow driving 2021 ·Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	6
7	Stochastic Discrete Time Crystals: Entropy Production and Subharmonic Synchronization 2021 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Udo Seifert, Andre C. Barato	12
8	The Two Scaling Regimes of the Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for the KPZ-Equation 2021 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	3
9	Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relation for Time-Dependent Driving 2020 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	101
10	Statistical Mechanics of an Elastically Pinned Membrane: Static Profile and Correlations 2018 ·Biophysical Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), Daniel Schmidt, Udo Seifert, Ana‐Sunčana Smith	10
11	Universal Coherence-Induced Power Losses of Quantum Heat Engines in Linear Response 2017 ·Physical Review Letters ·Kay Brandner, Michael Bauer, Udo Seifert	85
12	Energetics of synchronization in coupled oscillators rotating on circular trajectories 2016 ·Physical review. E ·(unknown), Hiroshi Kori, Udo Seifert	11
13	Effective rates from thermodynamically consistent coarse-graining of models for molecular motors with probe particles 2015 ·Physical Review E ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	27
14	Noisy Nonlinear Dynamics of Vesicles in Flow 2013 ·Physical Review Letters ·David Abreu, Udo Seifert	22
15	Nucleation of Ligand-Receptor Domains in Membrane Adhesion 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Udo Seifert, Ana‐Sunčana Smith	50
16	Thermodynamics of Genuine Nonequilibrium States under Feedback Control 2012 ·Physical Review Letters ·David Abreu, Udo Seifert	87
17	The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem for Nonequilibrium Steady States: Role of Stochastic Entropy and a Classification of Variants 2009 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Udo Seifert, Thomas Speck	2
18	Large deviation function for entropy production in driven one-dimensional systems 2008 ·Physical Review E ·(unknown), Thomas Speck, Udo Seifert	44
19	Nonmonotonic fluctuation spectra of membranes pinned or tethered discretely to a substrate 2006 ·ArXiv.org ·(unknown), Udo Seifert	20
20	Modeling Nonlinear Red Cell Elasticity 1998 ·Biophysical Journal ·Udo Seifert	3

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