Brian J. Pendleton

6.7k citations

44 papers · 4.1k · 1 hit paper · h-index 19

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 1%
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Statistics and Probability top 0.5%
- Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 38
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 34
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 18
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 13
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics 5
Condensed Matter Physics 19
- Theoretical and Computational Physics 13
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 9

Co-authors: Anthony D. Kennedy (18 shared papers)Simon Duane (3 shared papers)Duncan Roweth (3 shared papers)G.G. Ross (1 shared paper)S. Meyer (10 shared papers)Julius Kuti (7 shared papers)R.D. Kenway (8 shared papers)Stephen Booth (6 shared papers)
Journals: Physics Letters B (16 papers)Physical Review Letters (3 papers)Nuclear Physics B (3 papers)Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (1 paper)The European Physical Journal C (1 paper)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

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Brian J. Pendleton

42 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Brian J. Pendleton's Hit Papers

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Hybrid Monte Carlo 1987 · 2.6k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

1987 Physics Letters B

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1	Hybrid Monte Carlo Physics Letters B ·Simon Duane, Anthony D. Kennedy, Brian J. Pendleton, Duncan Roweth Hit paper breakdown →	1987	2631
2	Mass and mixing angle predictions from infra-red fixed points Physics Letters B ·Brian J. Pendleton, G.G. Ross	1981	261
3	Improved heatbath method for Monte Carlo calculations in lattice gauge theories Physics Letters B ·Anthony D. Kennedy, Brian J. Pendleton	1985	204
4	Deconfining Phase Transition and the Continuum Limit of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Physical Review Letters ·Steven A. Gottlieb, Julius Kuti, D. Toussaint, Anthony D. Kennedy, S. Meyer, Brian J. Pendleton, R. Sugar	1985	127
5	Where Is the Continuum in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics? Physical Review Letters ·Anthony D. Kennedy, Julius Kuti, S. Meyer, Brian J. Pendleton	1985	113
6	Gauge-invariant smearing and matrix correlators using Wilson fermions at β=6.2 Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Chris R. Allton, C. T. Sachrajda, R. M. Baxter, S. P. Booth, K. C. Bowler, Sara Collins, David Henty, R. D. Kenway, Brian J. Pendleton, D.G. Richards, James N. Simone, A. D. Simpson, B. E. Wilkes, C. Michael	1993	97
7	Hybrid Monte Carlo simulations theory and initial comparison with molecular dynamics Biopolymers ·Andy Brass, Brian J. Pendleton, Y. Chen, Barry Robson	1993	66
8	Phase diagrams of U(1) lattice Higgs models Physics Letters B ·K. C. Bowler, Godfrey Stuart Pawley, Brian J. Pendleton, D. J. Wallace, Graham Thomas	1981	53
9	Neutral-Kaon Mixing from ( 2+1 )-Flavor Domain-Wall QCD Physical Review Letters ·D. J. Antonio, P. A. Boyle, Thomas Blum, N. H. Christ, Saul D. Cohen, C. Dawson, Taku Izubuchi, R.D. Kenway, Chulwoo Jung, S. Li, Meifeng Lin, Robert D. Mawhinney, J. Noaki, Shigemi Ohta, Brian J. Pendleton, Enno E. Scholz, A. Soni, Robert J. Tweedie, Akinobu Yamaguchi	2008	45
10	Acceptances and autocorrelations in hybrid Monte Carlo Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements ·Anthony D. Kennedy, Brian J. Pendleton	1991	45
11	The phase diagram of the gauge-invariant Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model Physics Letters B ·Stephen Booth, R.D. Kenway, Brian J. Pendleton	1989	44
12	Cost of the generalised hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for free field theory Nuclear Physics B ·Anthony D. Kennedy, Brian J. Pendleton	2001	44
13	Light hadron spectrum and decay constants in quenched lattice QCD Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Chris R. Allton, Laurent Lellouch, Christopher T. Sachrajda, Hartmut Wittig, Rob Baxter, Stephen Booth, K. C. Bowler, D. S. Henty, R. D. Kenway, Craig McNeile, Brian J. Pendleton, D. G. Richards, James N. Simone, Alicia Simpson	1994	41
14	Quenched light hadron mass spectrum and decay constants: The effects of O(a) improvement at β = 6.2 Nuclear Physics B ·Chris R. Allton, C. T. C. Sachrajda, Rob Baxter, Stephen Booth, K. C. Bowler, Sara Collins, David Henty, R.D. Kenway, Craig McNeile, Brian J. Pendleton, David G. Richards, James N. Simone, Alicia Simpson, A. McKerrell, C. Michael, M. Prisznyák	1993	35
15	Instability in the molecular dynamics step of a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm in dynamical fermion lattice QCD simulations Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Bálint Joó, Brian J. Pendleton, Anthony D. Kennedy, A.C. Irving, James C. Sexton, Stephen M. Pickles, Stephen Booth	2000	26
16	Towards the continuum limit of SU(2) lattice gauge theory Physics Letters B ·S.K. Booth, K. C. Bowler, David Henty, R.D. Kenway, Brian J. Pendleton, D.G. Richards, Alicia Simpson, A.C. Irving, A. McKerrell, C. Michael, P.W. Stephenson, Michael J. Teper, Karsten M. Decker	1992	25
17	Acceleration of gauge field dynamics Physics Letters B ·Simon Duane, R.D. Kenway, Brian J. Pendleton, Duncan Roweth	1986	24
18	Renormalization group β-function from gluon thermodynamics Physics Letters B ·Anthony D. Kennedy, Julius Kuti, S. Meyer, Brian J. Pendleton	1985	20
19	Quark spectra and light hadron phenomenology from overlap fermions with improved gauge field action Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements ·D. Galletly, M. Gürtler, Roger Horsley, Bálint Joó, Anthony D. Kennedy, H. Perlt, Brian J. Pendleton, Paul E.L. Rakow, G. Schierholz, A. Schiller, T. Streuer	2004	19
20	Gauge invariant Fourier acceleration Physics Letters B ·Simon Duane, Brian J. Pendleton	1988	15

About Brian J. Pendleton

Brian J. Pendleton is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Statistics and Probability, Mathematical Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 44 papers that have together received 4.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (34 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (18 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (13 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (13 papers), Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (10 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (9 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (5 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.8k citations), Statistics and Probability (779 citations), Condensed Matter Physics (657 citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (304 citations) and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty (156 citations). Brian J. Pendleton has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Anthony D. Kennedy, Simon Duane, Duncan Roweth, G.G. Ross, S. Meyer, Julius Kuti, R.D. Kenway, Stephen Booth, K. C. Bowler and D. Toussaint. Their work appears in journals such as Physics Letters B, Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B, Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids and The European Physical Journal C.

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