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Instanton Theory

Instanton Theory is a semiclassical method in chemical kinetics that identifies the dominant tunneling pathway between reactants and products in a potential energy surface by applying path integral formulations to locate periodic orbits at imaginary time, thereby extending Transition State Theory to account for quantum tunneling effects at low temperatures.

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Seiberg-Witten Prepotential from Instanton Counting

Nikita Nekrasov · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics · 2003 · 1.9K citations · Full text

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Instantons in QCD

Thomas Schäfer, Edward Shuryak · Reviews of Modern Physics · 1998 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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The QCD axion, precisely

Giovanni Grilli di Cortona, Edward Hardy, Javier Pardo Vega et al. · Journal of High Energy Physics · 2016 · 756 citations · Full text

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Exact Gell-Mann-Low function of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories from instanton calculus

V.A. Novikov, Mikhail Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein · Nuclear Physics B · 1983 · 751 citations

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A expandable series of non-linear σ models with instantons

A. D’Adda, Martin Lüscher, P. Di Vecchia · Nuclear Physics B · 1978 · 746 citations

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  1. ES
    Edward Shuryak

    Stony Brook University, United States

    54 publications · 3.9K citations

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  2. JO
    Jeremy O. Richardson

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    29 publications · 1.7K citations

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  3. ZS
    Zorka Smedarchina

    Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, Canada

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. WS
    Willem Siebrand

    National Research Council Canada, Canada

    18 publications · 1K citations

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  5. AF
    Antonio Fernández‐Ramos

    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    16 publications · 788 citations

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  1. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    37 h-index

    91 publications

    8.5K citations

  2. European Organization for Nuclear Research

    Geneva, Switzerland

    36 h-index

    114 publications

    6.4K citations

  3. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    33 h-index

    73 publications

    4.9K citations

  4. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    33 h-index

    143 publications

    6.4K citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    32 h-index

    96 publications

    8.3K citations

  6. Institute for Advanced Study

    Princeton, United States

    32 h-index

    53 publications

    6.2K citations

  7. State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    28 h-index

    83 publications

    4.8K citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    27 h-index

    94 publications

    3.5K citations

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  1. Journal of High Energy Physics

    JHEP · 300 publications · 14.5K citations

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  2. Nuclear Physics B

    193 publications · 16.7K citations

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  4. Physics Letters B

    179 publications · 7.1K citations

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  5. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    77 publications · 5.1K citations

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