| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple | Physical Review Letters | 1996 | 157,044 |
| 2 | Ground State of the Electron Gas by a Stochastic Method | Physical Review Letters | 1980 | 13,000 |
| 3 | Atomic Force Microscope | Physical Review Letters | 1986 | 12,910 |
| 4 | Raman Spectrum of Graphene and Graphene Layers | Physical Review Letters | 2006 | 12,689 |
| 5 | MoS2: A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor">Atomically ThinMoS2: A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor | Physical Review Letters | 2010 | 12,565 |
| 6 | Inhibited Spontaneous Emission in Solid-State Physics and Electronics | Physical Review Letters | 1987 | 12,419 |
| 7 | Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple [Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 3865 (1996)] | Physical Review Letters | 1997 | 12,087 |
| 8 | Negative Refraction Makes a Perfect Lens | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 10,785 |
| 9 | Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels | Physical Review Letters | 1993 | 10,750 |
| 10 | Unified Approach for Molecular Dynamics and Density-Functional Theory | Physical Review Letters | 1985 | 9,715 |
| 11 | Synchronization in chaotic systems | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 9,067 |
| 12 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger | Physical Review Letters | 2016 | 8,753 |
| 13 | Strong localization of photons in certain disordered dielectric superlattices | Physical Review Letters | 1987 | 8,744 |
| 14 | Giant Magnetoresistance of (001)Fe/(001)Cr Magnetic Superlattices | Physical Review Letters | 1988 | 8,315 |
| 15 | Restoring the Density-Gradient Expansion for Exchange in Solids and Surfaces | Physical Review Letters | 2008 | 8,139 |
| 16 | Quantum cryptography based on Bell’s theorem | Physical Review Letters | 1991 | 8,132 |
| 17 | Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 7,665 |
| 18 | Density-Functional Theory for Time-Dependent Systems | Physical Review Letters | 1984 | 7,180 |
| 19 | Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension | Physical Review Letters | 1999 | 7,165 |
| 20 | Entanglement of Formation of an Arbitrary State of Two Qubits | Physical Review Letters | 1998 | 6,755 |
| 21 | Absence of Ferromagnetism or Antiferromagnetism in One- or Two-Dimensional Isotropic Heisenberg Models | Physical Review Letters | 1966 | 6,684 |
| 22 | Superconductivity at 93 K in a new mixed-phase Y-Ba-Cu-O compound system at ambient pressure | Physical Review Letters | 1987 | 6,550 |
| 23 | Self-organized criticality: An explanation of the 1/fnoise | Physical Review Letters | 1987 | 6,415 |
| 24 | GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral | Physical Review Letters | 2017 | 6,413 |
| 25 | Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry | Physical Review Letters | 1984 | 6,314 |
| 26 | Single Molecule Detection Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) | Physical Review Letters | 1997 | 6,215 |
| 27 | A Model of Leptons | Physical Review Letters | 1967 | 6,195 |
| 28 | Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Graphene | Physical Review Letters | 2005 | 6,191 |
| 29 | Plasma perspective on strong field multiphoton ionization | Physical Review Letters | 1993 | 6,161 |
| 30 | An Alternative to Compactification | Physical Review Letters | 1999 | 5,817 |
| 31 | Perfect Metamaterial Absorber | Physical Review Letters | 2008 | 5,705 |
| 32 | Density matrix formulation for quantum renormalization groups | Physical Review Letters | 1992 | 5,680 |
| 33 | Climbing the Density Functional Ladder: Nonempirical Meta–Generalized Gradient Approximation Designed for Molecules and Solids | Physical Review Letters | 2003 | 5,673 |
| 34 | Novel Type of Phase Transition in a System of Self-Driven Particles | Physical Review Letters | 1995 | 5,647 |
| 35 | New Method for High-Accuracy Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant Based on Quantized Hall Resistance | Physical Review Letters | 1980 | 5,601 |
| 36 | Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories | Physical Review Letters | 1969 | 5,449 |
| 37 | Scaling Theory of Localization: Absence of Quantum Diffusion in Two Dimensions | Physical Review Letters | 1979 | 5,419 |
| 38 | Solitons in Polyacetylene | Physical Review Letters | 1979 | 5,365 |
| 39 | Efficacious Form for Model Pseudopotentials | Physical Review Letters | 1982 | 5,261 |
| 40 | CPConservation in the Presence of Pseudoparticles | Physical Review Letters | 1977 | 5,147 |
| 41 | Controlling chaos | Physical Review Letters | 1990 | 5,062 |
| 42 | Z2Topological Order and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect | Physical Review Letters | 2005 | 5,045 |
| 43 | Real Spectra in Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians HavingPTSymmetry | Physical Review Letters | 1998 | 5,035 |
| 44 | Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential | Physical Review Letters | 1982 | 5,033 |
| 45 | Diffusion-Limited Aggregation, a Kinetic Critical Phenomenon | Physical Review Letters | 1981 | 4,918 |
| 46 | Accurate Molecular Van Der Waals Interactions from Ground-State Electron Density and Free-Atom Reference Data | Physical Review Letters | 2009 | 4,824 |
| 47 | Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation | Physical Review Letters | 1980 | 4,729 |
| 48 | Van der Waals Density Functional for General Geometries | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 4,707 |
| 49 | Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Gas of Sodium Atoms | Physical Review Letters | 1995 | 4,687 |
| 50 | Anomalous Quantum Hall Effect: An Incompressible Quantum Fluid with Fractionally Charged Excitations | Physical Review Letters | 1983 | 4,680 |
