Willy Fischler

15.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
80 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Willy Fischler is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Willy Fischler has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 20 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Willy Fischler's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (55 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (24 papers). Willy Fischler is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (55 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (24 papers). Willy Fischler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Belgium. Willy Fischler's co-authors include Michael Dine, Mark Srednicki, Lawrence Susskind, T. Banks, Stephen H. Shenker, L. Susskind, Stuart Raby, Edward W. Kolb, G.G. Ross and G.D. Coughlan and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Willy Fischler

79 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

The not-so-harmless axion 1981 2026 1996 2011 1983 1981 1997 1983 1981 500 1000 1.5k
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. The not-so-harmless axion
    1983 2.0k citations Michael Dine, Willy Fischler Physics Letters B profile →
  2. A simple solution to the strong CP problem with a harmless axion
    1981 1.8k citations Michael Dine, Willy Fischler et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  3. Mtheory as a matrix model: A conjecture
    1997 1.5k citations T. Banks, Willy Fischler et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  4. Cosmological problems for the polonyi potential
    1983 450 citations G.D. Coughlan, Willy Fischler et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  5. Supersymmetric technicolor
    1981 450 citations Michael Dine, Willy Fischler 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
Willy Fischler United States 36 9.4k 6.3k 1.9k 1.2k 274 80 9.9k
Steven B. Giddings United States 50 8.0k 0.9× 7.2k 1.1× 3.2k 1.7× 1.4k 1.2× 341 1.2× 133 8.8k
Michael Dine United States 54 16.0k 1.7× 9.7k 1.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.4k 1.1× 306 1.1× 153 16.7k
Sandip P. Trivedi India 40 6.5k 0.7× 5.6k 0.9× 1.9k 1.0× 592 0.5× 170 0.6× 69 6.9k
Malcolm J. Perry United States 35 7.5k 0.8× 6.5k 1.0× 3.0k 1.6× 1.1k 0.9× 333 1.2× 86 8.3k
Riccardo Rattazzi Switzerland 43 8.9k 0.9× 5.5k 0.9× 977 0.5× 448 0.4× 171 0.6× 84 9.5k
Nima Arkani–Hamed United States 56 16.0k 1.7× 10.7k 1.7× 3.2k 1.7× 1.1k 0.9× 664 2.4× 110 17.3k
Tom Banks United States 33 4.3k 0.5× 2.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 650 0.5× 214 0.8× 87 4.8k
Petr Hořava United States 23 5.1k 0.5× 4.9k 0.8× 2.5k 1.3× 671 0.6× 196 0.7× 48 5.9k
A.I. Vainshtein Russia 55 17.4k 1.9× 3.8k 0.6× 861 0.5× 1.3k 1.1× 137 0.5× 155 18.3k
Michael E. Peskin United States 38 8.2k 0.9× 3.0k 0.5× 1.0k 0.6× 1.4k 1.1× 210 0.8× 94 9.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Banks, Tom, et al.. (2024). Quantum theory of three-dimensional de Sitter space. Physical review. D. 109(2). 3 indexed citations
2.
Banks, Tom & Willy Fischler. (2024). Holographic inflation, primordial black holes and early structure formation. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 33(15).
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Fischler, Willy, et al.. (2023). Quantum error correction in the lowest Landau level. Physical review. A. 107(3). 3 indexed citations
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Banks, Tom & Willy Fischler. (2023). Holographic space-time, Newton’s law, and the dynamics of horizons. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 27(1). 65–86. 3 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, et al.. (2021). Speeding up the spread of quantum information in chaotic systems. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(12). 11 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, Viktor Jahnke, & Juan F. Pedraza. (2018). Chaos and entanglement spreading in a non-commutative gauge theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(11). 20 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, et al.. (2014). Fluctuation and dissipation in de Sitter space. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(8). 21 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, Arnab Kundu, & Sandipan Kundu. (2013). Holographic mutual information at finite temperature. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(12). 70 indexed citations
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Carney, Daniel, Willy Fischler, Sònia Paban, & Navin Sivanandam. (2012). The inflationary wavefunction and its initial conditions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2012(12). 12–12. 14 indexed citations
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Ackerman, Lotty, Willy Fischler, Sandipan Kundu, & Navin Sivanandam. (2011). Constraining the inflationary equation of state. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2011(5). 24–24. 15 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, Chethan Krishnan, Sònia Paban, & Marija Žanić. (2007). Vacuum Bubble in an Inhomogeneous Cosmology: A Toy Model. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Banks, T. & Willy Fischler. (2002). Black Crunch. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Banks, Tom, Willy Fischler, & Igor R. Klebanov. (1998). Evaporation of Schwarzschild black holes in Matrix Theory. Physics Letters B. 423(1-2). 54–58. 19 indexed citations
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Banks, Tom, Willy Fischler, Igor R. Klebanov, & Lawrence Susskind. (1998). Schwarzschild Black Holes from Matrix Theory. Physical Review Letters. 80(2). 226–229. 70 indexed citations
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Banks, T., Willy Fischler, Stephen H. Shenker, & Lawrence Susskind. (1997). Mtheory as a matrix model: A conjecture. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 55(8). 5112–5128. 1454 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fischler, Willy, Sònia Paban, & Moshe Rozali. (1996). Collective coordinates for D-branes. Physics Letters B. 381(1-3). 62–67. 19 indexed citations
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Banks, T., Michael Dine, Hans Dijkstra, & Willy Fischler. (1988). Magnetic monopole solutions of string theory. Physics Letters B. 212(1). 45–50. 31 indexed citations
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Dine, Michael & Willy Fischler. (1983). The not-so-harmless axion. Physics Letters B. 120(1-3). 137–141. 1963 indexed citations breakdown →
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Coughlan, G.D., Willy Fischler, Edward W. Kolb, Stuart Raby, & G.G. Ross. (1983). Cosmological problems for the polonyi potential. Physics Letters B. 131(1-3). 59–64. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Fischler, Willy & John Preskill. (1983). Dyon-axion dynamics. Physics Letters B. 125(2-3). 165–170. 36 indexed citations

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