| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Soft self-consistent pseudopotentials in a generalized eigenvalue formalism | Physical Review B | 1990 | 20,195 |
| 2 | Sub-diffraction-limit imaging by stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM) | Nature Methods | 2006 | 6,819 |
| 3 | Theory of dynamic critical phenomena | Reviews of Modern Physics | 1977 | 5,764 |
| 4 | Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories | Physical Review Letters | 1969 | 5,449 |
| 5 | Unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene superlattices | Nature | 2018 | 5,221 |
| 6 | Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices | Nature | 2018 | 3,086 |
| 7 | Symmetry Breaking through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies | Physical Review Letters | 1976 | 2,781 |
| 8 | Coherent Manipulation of Coupled Electron Spins in Semiconductor Quantum Dots | Science | 2005 | 2,674 |
| 9 | Femtosecond laser micromachining in transparent materials | Nature Photonics | 2008 | 2,601 |
| 10 | Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy | Science | 2008 | 2,470 |
| 11 | Unified approach to the classical statistical analysis of small signals | Physical Review D | 1998 | 2,236 |
| 12 | The potential and challenges of nanopore sequencing | Nature Biotechnology | 2008 | 2,201 |
| 13 | Dislocation-mediated melting in two dimensions | Physical Review B | 1979 | 2,074 |
| 14 | Renormalization, vortices, and symmetry-breaking perturbations in the two-dimensional planar model | Physical Review B | 1977 | 1,752 |
| 15 | LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products | Astrophysical Journal | 2019 | 1,744 |
| 16 | The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample | Astrophysical Journal | 2018 | 1,694 |
| 17 | Theory of Two-Dimensional Melting | Physical Review Letters | 1978 | 1,680 |
| 18 | Class E-A new class of high-efficiency tuned single-ended switching power amplifiers | IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits | 1975 | 1,668 |
| 19 | Peer Instruction: Ten years of experience and results | American Journal of Physics | 2001 | 1,666 |
| 20 | Three-Dimensional Direct Imaging of Structural Relaxation Near the Colloidal Glass Transition | Science | 2000 | 1,608 |
| 21 | Topological Crystalline Insulators | Physical Review Letters | 2011 | 1,561 |
| 22 | Nanoscale magnetic sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond | Nature | 2008 | 1,554 |
| 23 | Ion-beam sculpting at nanometre length scales | Nature | 2001 | 1,524 |
| 24 | Hadron masses in a gauge theory | Physical Review D | 1975 | 1,522 |
| 25 | Subwavelength-diameter silica wires for low-loss optical wave guiding | Nature | 2003 | 1,500 |
| 26 | Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator | Nature | 2017 | 1,463 |
| 27 | Nanometre-scale thermometry in a living cell | Nature | 2013 | 1,440 |
| 28 | High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,409 |
| 29 | Fate of the false vacuum. II. First quantum corrections | Physical Review D | 1977 | 1,396 |
| 30 | Generation of single optical plasmons in metallic nanowires coupled to quantum dots | Nature | 2007 | 1,307 |
| 31 | Car-Parrinello molecular dynamics with Vanderbilt ultrasoft pseudopotentials | Physical Review B | 1993 | 1,303 |
| 32 | Direct electronic measurement of the spin Hall effect | Nature | 2006 | 1,271 |
| 33 | Graphene as a subnanometre trans-electrode membrane | Nature | 2010 | 1,259 |
| 34 | First Results from the LUX Dark Matter Experiment at the Sanford Underground Research Facility | Physical Review Letters | 2014 | 1,248 |
| 35 | Observation of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates | Science | 2001 | 1,228 |
| 36 | A broadband achromatic metalens for focusing and imaging in the visible | Nature Nanotechnology | 2018 | 1,190 |
| 37 | Universal Jump in the Superfluid Density of Two-Dimensional Superfluids | Physical Review Letters | 1977 | 1,173 |
| 38 | A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice | Nature | 2009 | 1,161 |
| 39 | Large-distance and long-time properties of a randomly stirred fluid | Physical Review A | 1977 | 1,145 |
| 40 | Ising formulations of many NP problems | Frontiers in Physics | 2014 | 1,106 |
| 41 | Single-cell transcriptomics reveals bimodality in expression and splicing in immune cells | Nature | 2013 | 1,103 |
| 42 | Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform | Nature Nanotechnology | 2015 | 1,099 |
| 43 | Elastic Behavior of Cross-Linked and Bundled Actin Networks | Science | 2004 | 1,090 |
| 44 | Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond | Science | 2007 | 1,040 |
| 45 | Coherent Dynamics of Coupled Electron and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond | Science | 2006 | 1,030 |
| 46 | Anharmonic Oscillator | Physical Review | 1969 | 976 |
| 47 | Geometrically Mediated Breakup of Drops in Microfluidic Devices | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 969 |
| 48 | Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit | Nature | 2010 | 968 |
| 49 | Probing Transcription Factor Dynamics at the Single-Molecule Level in a Living Cell | Science | 2007 | 966 |
| 50 | Three-dimensional optical storage inside transparent materials | Optics Letters | 1996 | 928 |
