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Critical Phenomena

Critical Phenomena is a singular academic concept in the study of phase transitions within complex systems, condensed matter physics, and thermodynamics, denoting the collective behaviors and scaling properties that emerge near critical points where distinct phases become indistinguishable and fluctuations occur across all length scales.

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Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems

J. M. Kosterlitz, D. J. Thouless · Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics · 1973 · 9.5K citations

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The random walk's guide to anomalous diffusion: a fractional dynamics approach

Ralf Metzler, J. Klafter · Physics Reports · 2000 · 8.9K citations

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Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/<i>f</i>noise

Per Bak, Chao Tang, Kurt Wiesenfeld · Physical Review Letters · 1987 · 7.6K citations

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Superconductivity at 93 K in a new mixed-phase Y-Ba-Cu-O compound system at ambient pressure

Meiying Wu, J. R. Ashburn, C. J. Torng et al. · Physical Review Letters · 1987 · 7.1K citations · Full text

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Theory of dynamic critical phenomena

P. C. Hohenberg, Bertrand I. Halperin · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1977 · 6.9K citations

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  1. ME
    Michael E. Fisher

    Cornell University, United States

    153 publications · 30.4K citations

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    H. Eugene Stanley

    Boston University, United States

    136 publications · 21.2K citations

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    Kurt Binder

    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

    108 publications · 11.9K citations

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  4. SS
    Subir Sachdev

    Harvard University, United States

    90 publications · 12.2K citations

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    David A. Huse

    Princeton University, United States

    68 publications · 11.3K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    115 h-index

    2.5K publications

    163.6K citations

  2. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    109 h-index

    659 publications

    103.3K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    104 h-index

    566 publications

    79.9K citations

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    101 h-index

    835 publications

    78.3K citations

  5. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    98 h-index

    608 publications

    78.3K citations

  6. University of California, Santa Barbara

    Santa Barbara, United States

    96 h-index

    515 publications

    62.9K citations

  7. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    89 h-index

    999 publications

    64.4K citations

  8. University of Maryland, College Park

    College Park, United States

    87 h-index

    774 publications

    56.7K citations

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  1. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 3K publications · 312.1K citations

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  2. Physical review. B, Condensed matter

    PRB · 2.1K publications · 136.3K citations

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  3. Physical Review B

    PRB · 1.1K publications · 53.3K citations

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  4. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

    894 publications · 43.9K citations

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