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Topological Materials and Phenomena

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Long Ju
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
99
2
Yingying Wu
University of Florida
93
3
Tianzhi Yang
Northeastern University
87
4
Claudia Felser
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids
87
5
Tony Jun Huang
Duke University
84
6
Shambhu Ghimire
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
83
7
Yanqing Lu
Nanjing Agricultural University
80
8
Jörn W. F. Venderbos
Drexel University
78
9
Niladri Banerjee
Imperial College London
77
10
K. W. Edmonds
University of Nottingham
75

Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Guangyang Zhang
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
99
2
Mengli Hu
Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
78
3
T. Jungwirth
University of Nottingham
77
4
Xiaorong Zou
Shandong University
76
5
Md Shafayat Hossain
Princeton University
75
6
Cameron Duncan
Cornell University
71
7
M. Roppongi
Jikei University Kashiwa hospital
69
8
Lalit Pandey
Chalmers University of Technology
69
9
Pablo Díaz Núñez
University of Manchester
67
10
Xinchen Gao
Chinese Academy of Sciences
67

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
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Physical Review Letters|2023
199 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
M. Zahid Hasan
Princeton University
99
2
Marin Soljačić
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
79
3
Cheng‐Wei Qiu
National University of Singapore
75
4
Mercedeh Khajavikhan
University of Central Florida
71
5
Kin Fai Mak
Cornell University
67
6
B. Andrei Bernevig
Princeton University
61
7
C. Panagopoulos
Nanyang Technological University
57
8
Yan‐Feng Chen
Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures
57
9
Sven Höfling
University of St Andrews
55
10
Jaroslav Fabian
University of Regensburg
54

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface
Nature Physics|2009
3.8k cit.
2
Topological photonics
Nature Photonics|2014
3.5k cit.
3
Topological quantum chemistry
Nature|2017
1.6k cit.
4
A Weyl Fermion semimetal with surface Fermi arcs in the transition metal monopnictide TaAs class
Nature Communications|2015
1.6k cit.
5
Observation of a three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal phase in high-mobility Cd3As2
Nature Communications|2014
1.4k cit.
6
Topological kagome magnets and superconductors
Nature|2022
468 cit.
7
Topological quantum properties of chiral crystals
Nature Materials|2018
436 cit.
8
Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2018
375 cit.
9
Trivial and inverted Dirac bands and the emergence of quantum spin Hall states in graphene on transition-metal dichalcogenides
Physical review. B./Physical review. B|2016
304 cit.
10
Elastic pseudospin transport for integratable topological phononic circuits
Nature Communications|2018
285 cit.

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