Z. H. Sun

890 total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 484 citations indexed

About

Z. H. Sun is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Z. H. Sun has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 484 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 15 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Z. H. Sun's work include Nuclear physics research studies (25 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (9 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (7 papers). Z. H. Sun is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear physics research studies (25 papers), Atomic and Molecular Physics (9 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (7 papers). Z. H. Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Z. H. Sun's co-authors include B. S. Hu, T. Papenbrock, F. R. Xu, G. Hagen, Qiang Wu, G. R. Jansen, A. Ekström, W. G. Jiang, C. Forssén and S. R. Stroberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Physics, Physics Letters B and Physical Review X.

In The Last Decade

Z. H. Sun

23 papers receiving 445 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.

Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces

2022 148 citations B. S. Hu, W. G. Jiang et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Z. H. Sun United States	12	420	242	109	55	35	26	484
Guillaume Hupin Canada	15	645 1.5×	357 1.5×	106 1.0×	64 1.2×	25 0.7×	37	683
K. Sekiguchi Japan	12	448 1.1×	236 1.0×	99 0.9×	99 1.8×	25 0.7×	69	551
Serdar Elhatisari Germany	13	501 1.2×	239 1.0×	114 1.0×	23 0.4×	38 1.1×	34	615
Mirko Miorelli United States	6	443 1.1×	190 0.8×	94 0.9×	69 1.3×	101 2.9×	8	498
A. Signoracci United States	11	390 0.9×	295 1.2×	137 1.3×	60 1.1×	12 0.3×	17	490
G. Potel United States	13	474 1.1×	226 0.9×	72 0.7×	162 2.9×	25 0.7×	43	531
B. D. Carlsson Sweden	7	725 1.7×	286 1.2×	148 1.4×	86 1.6×	97 2.8×	8	774
H.J. Wörtche Netherlands	14	548 1.3×	266 1.1×	108 1.0×	103 1.9×	29 0.8×	41	578
W. G. Jiang United States	8	347 0.8×	128 0.5×	60 0.6×	44 0.8×	53 1.5×	18	403
A. Escuderos United States	13	544 1.3×	218 0.9×	82 0.8×	68 1.2×	12 0.3×	33	560

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Z. H. Sun

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Sun, Z. H., et al.. (2025). Structure of odd-mass Ne, Na, and Mg nuclei. Physical review. C. 111(4). 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Z. H., A. Ekström, C. Forssén, et al.. (2025). Multiscale Physics of Atomic Nuclei from First Principles. Physical Review X. 15(1). 11 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., et al.. (2024). Ab initio computations from 78Ni towards 70Ca along neutron number N = 50. Physics Letters B. 858. 139010–139010. 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Z. H., et al.. (2023). Entanglement entropy of nuclear systems. Physical review. C. 108(5). 22 indexed citations

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Yuan, Qiong, B. S. Hu, J. G. Li, et al.. (2022). Deformed in-medium similarity renormalization group. Physical review. C. 105(6). 15 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., et al.. (2022). Excitation spectra of the heaviest carbon isotopes investigated within the CD-Bonn Gamow shell model. Physical review. C. 106(2). 3 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., W. G. Jiang, T. Miyagi, et al.. (2022). Ab initio predictions link the neutron skin of 208Pb to nuclear forces. Nature Physics. 18(10). 1196–1200. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hagen, G., S. J. Novario, Z. H. Sun, et al.. (2022). Angular-momentum projection in coupled-cluster theory: Structure of Mg34. Physical review. C. 105(6). 48 indexed citations

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Ruíz, R. F. García, et al.. (2022). Nuclear charge radii of Na isotopes: Interplay of atomic and nuclear theory. Physical review. C. 105(3). 13 indexed citations

10.

Li, J. G., Y. Z., N. Michel, et al.. (2021). Recent Progress in Gamow Shell Model Calculations of Drip Line Nuclei. Physics. 3(4). 977–997. 17 indexed citations

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Sun, Z. H., G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, & T. Papenbrock. (2021). Effective shell-model interaction for nuclei “southeast” of Sn100. Physical review. C. 104(6). 8 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., Y. Z., Jianguo Li, Z. H. Sun, & F. R. Xu. (2021). <italic>Ab initio</italic> calculations of nuclear systems. Chinese Science Bulletin (Chinese Version). 66(27). 3570–3580. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., Qiang Wu, Y. Z., et al.. (2020). An ab-initio Gamow shell model approach with a core. Physics Letters B. 802. 135206–135206. 24 indexed citations

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Hu, B. S., Qiang Wu, Z. H. Sun, & F. R. Xu. (2019). Ab initio Gamow in-medium similarity renormalization group with resonance and continuum. Physical review. C. 99(6). 35 indexed citations

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Jiang, W. G., B. S. Hu, Z. H. Sun, & F. R. Xu. (2018). Gogny-force-derived effective shell-model Hamiltonian. Physical review. C. 98(4). 5 indexed citations

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Sun, Z. H., Titus Morris, G. Hagen, G. R. Jansen, & T. Papenbrock. (2018). Shell-model coupled-cluster method for open-shell nuclei. Physical review. C. 98(5). 23 indexed citations

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Wu, Qiang, B. S. Hu, F. R. Xu, et al.. (2018). Chiral NNLOsat descriptions of nuclear multipole resonances within the random-phase approximation. Physical review. C. 97(5). 5 indexed citations

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Xu, F. R., et al.. (2018). Continuum effect in resonance spectra of neutron-rich oxygen isotopes. Chinese Physics C. 42(11). 114106–114106.

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Sun, Z. H., et al.. (2017). Resonance and continuum Gamow shell model with realistic nuclear forces. Physics Letters B. 769. 227–232. 43 indexed citations

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Sun, Z. H., et al.. (2014). Correlated-basis method for shell-model calculations. Physical Review C. 90(2). 9 indexed citations

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