Simon Hands

5.9k citations

153 papers · 4.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 32

Impact in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Condensed Matter Physics top 2%
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
- Theoretical and Computational Physics

Papers in

Nuclear and High Energy Physics 117
- Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions 116
- High-Energy Particle Collisions Research 82
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies 55
- Black Holes and Theoretical Physics 14
Condensed Matter Physics 50
- Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism 40
- Theoretical and Computational Physics 13

Co-authors: Chris R. Allton (41 shared papers)Jon-Ivar Skullerud (40 shared papers)John B. Kogut (24 shared papers)Shinji Ejiri (12 shared papers)Olaf Kaczmarek (10 shared papers)E. Laermann (10 shared papers)Costas Strouthos (16 shared papers)F. Karsch (7 shared papers)
Journals: Nuclear Physics B (21 papers)Physics Letters B (13 papers)Physical Review B (7 papers)Physical review. D (6 papers)Physical Review Letters (4 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Ireland

In The Last Decade

Simon Hands

143 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Simon Hands's Hit Papers

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QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential 2002 · 447 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2002 Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

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1	QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Chris R. Allton, Shinji Ejiri, Simon Hands, Olaf Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Christian D. Schmidt, L. Scorzato Hit paper breakdown →	2002	447
2	Thermodynamics of two flavor QCD to sixth order in quark chemical potential Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Chris R. Allton, M. Döring, Shinji Ejiri, Simon Hands, Olaf Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Krzysztof Redlich	2005	376
3	Equation of state for two flavor QCD at nonzero chemical potential Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Chris R. Allton, Shinji Ejiri, Simon Hands, Olaf Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Christian D. Schmidt	2003	280
4	Spectral Functions at Small Energies and the Electrical Conductivity in Hot Quenched Lattice QCD Physical Review Letters ·Gert Aarts, Chris R. Allton, Justin Foley, Simon Hands, Seyong Kim	2007	208
5	Electrical Conductivity of the Quark-Gluon Plasma Across the Deconfinement Transition Physical Review Letters ·Alessandro Amato, Gert Aarts, Chris R. Allton, Pietro Giudice, Simon Hands, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2013	168
6	Numerical study of dense adjoint matter in two color QCD The European Physical Journal C ·Simon Hands, Istvan Montvay, Susan Morrison, M. Oevers, L. Scorzato, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2000	116
7	Two-color QCD at nonzero quark-number density Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·John B. Kogut, D.K. Sinclair, Simon Hands, Susan Morrison	2001	107
8	Deconfinement in dense two-color QCD The European Physical Journal C ·Simon Hands, Se Yong Kim, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2006	107
9	Symmetries and spectrum of SU(2) lattice gauge theory at finite chemical potential Nuclear Physics B ·Simon Hands, John B. Kogut, Maria-Paola Lombardo, Susan Morrison	1999	104
10	Insulin, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I (IGF-I), IGF-Binding Protein-1, Growth Hormone, and Feeding in the Newborn The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism ·Amanda Ogilvy‐Stuart, Simon Hands, Carolyn Adcock, J.M.P. Holly, David Richard Matthews, Vidya Mohamed‐Ali, John S Yudkin, Andrew Robert Wilkinson	1998	102
11	Quantum critical behavior in a graphenelike model Physical Review B ·Simon Hands, Costas Strouthos	2008	85
12	Where is the chiral critical point in 3-flavor QCD? Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements ·F. Karsch, Chris R. Allton, Shinji Ejiri, Simon Hands, Olaf Kaczmarek, E. Laermann, Christian D. Schmidt	2004	82
13	Electrical conductivity and charge diffusion in thermal QCD from the lattice Maynooth University ePrints and eTheses Archive (Maynooth University) ·Gert Aarts, Chris R. Allton, Alessandro Amato, Pietro Giudice, Simon Hands, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2015	79
14	Study of QCD Thermodynamics at Finite Density by Taylor Expansion Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement ·Shinji Ejiri, Chris R. Allton, Simon Hands, Olaf Kaczmarek, F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Christian D. Schmidt	2004	78
15	Quarkyonic phase in dense two color matter Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Simon Hands, Seyong Kim, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2010	77
16	Noncompact three-dimensional quantum electrodynamics with Nf=1 and Nf=4 Physical Review B ·Simon Hands, John B. Kogut, L. Scorzato, Costas Strouthos	2004	77
17	Monte Carlo simulation of the semimetal-insulator phase transition in monolayer graphene Physical Review B ·Wesley Armour, Simon Hands, Costas Strouthos	2010	75
18	Towards the phase diagram of dense two-color matter Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Seamus Cotter, Pietro Giudice, Simon Hands, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2013	75
19	Non-compact QED3 with N⩾2 Nuclear Physics B ·Simon Hands, John B. Kogut, Costas Strouthos	2002	73
20	Nucleons and parity doubling across the deconfinement transition Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields ·Gert Aarts, Chris R. Allton, Simon Hands, Benjamin Jäger, Chrisanthi Praki, Jon-Ivar Skullerud	2015	55

About Simon Hands

Simon Hands is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, having authored 153 papers that have together received 4.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (116 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (82 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (55 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (40 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (32 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (14 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (13 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.4k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (818 citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (1.0k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (395 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (141 citations). Simon Hands has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Chris R. Allton, Jon-Ivar Skullerud, John B. Kogut, Shinji Ejiri, Olaf Kaczmarek, E. Laermann, Costas Strouthos, F. Karsch, Christian D. Schmidt and L. Scorzato. Their work appears in journals such as Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B, Physical Review B, Physical review. D and Physical Review Letters.

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