| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Topological insulators in Bi2Se3, Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 with a single Dirac cone on the surface | Nature Physics | 2009 | 5,240 |
| 2 | Chiral tunnelling and the Klein paradox in graphene | Nature Physics | 2006 | 3,383 |
| 3 | Observation of a large-gap topological-insulator class with a single Dirac cone on the surface | Nature Physics | 2009 | 3,207 |
| 4 | Observation of parity–time symmetry in optics | Nature Physics | 2010 | 2,860 |
| 5 | Identification of influential spreaders in complex networks | Nature Physics | 2010 | 2,386 |
| 6 | Spin and pseudospins in layered transition metal dichalcogenides | Nature Physics | 2014 | 2,204 |
| 7 | Parity–time-symmetric whispering-gallery microcavities | Nature Physics | 2014 | 1,892 |
| 8 | Attosecond science | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,834 |
| 9 | Magnon spintronics | Nature Physics | 2015 | 1,804 |
| 10 | Zero-bias peaks and splitting in an Al–InAs nanowire topological superconductor as a signature of Majorana fermions | Nature Physics | 2012 | 1,796 |
| 11 | Unconventional quantum Hall effect and Berry’s phase of 2π in bilayer graphene | Nature Physics | 2006 | 1,785 |
| 12 | Phase retrieval and differential phase-contrast imaging with low-brilliance X-ray sources | Nature Physics | 2006 | 1,654 |
| 13 | Direct measurement of the exciton binding energy and effective masses for charge carriers in organic–inorganic tri-halide perovskites | Nature Physics | 2015 | 1,651 |
| 14 | Non-Hermitian physics and PT symmetry | Nature Physics | 2018 | 1,620 |
| 15 | Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases | Nature Physics | 2012 | 1,612 |
| 16 | Energy gaps and a zero-field quantum Hall effect in graphene by strain engineering | Nature Physics | 2010 | 1,554 |
| 17 | GeV electron beams from a centimetre-scale accelerator | Nature Physics | 2006 | 1,521 |
| 18 | Spontaneous atomic-scale magnetic skyrmion lattice in two dimensions | Nature Physics | 2011 | 1,521 |
| 19 | Challenges for semiconductor spintronics | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,457 |
| 20 | Valley filter and valley valve in graphene | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,452 |
| 21 | High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,409 |
| 22 | Floquet topological insulator in semiconductor quantum wells | Nature Physics | 2011 | 1,385 |
| 23 | Observation of electron–hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,350 |
| 24 | The physics and applications of random lasers | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,339 |
| 25 | Optical magnetometry | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,329 |
| 26 | Charged-impurity scattering in graphene | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,318 |
| 27 | High-temperature superconductivity in iron-based materials | Nature Physics | 2010 | 1,292 |
| 28 | Non-Abelian statistics and topological quantum information processing in 1D wire networks | Nature Physics | 2011 | 1,285 |
| 29 | Quantum plasmonics | Nature Physics | 2013 | 1,255 |
| 30 | Observation of high-order harmonic generation in a bulk crystal | Nature Physics | 2011 | 1,249 |
| 31 | Crossover of the three-dimensional topological insulator Bi2Se3 to the two-dimensional limit | Nature Physics | 2010 | 1,227 |
| 32 | Twisted photons | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,196 |
| 33 | The Peregrine soliton in nonlinear fibre optics | Nature Physics | 2010 | 1,166 |
| 34 | Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions | Nature Physics | 2015 | 1,145 |
| 35 | Quantum simulations with trapped ions | Nature Physics | 2012 | 1,135 |
| 36 | Dirac charge dynamics in graphene by infrared spectroscopy | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,111 |
| 37 | Robust optical delay lines with topological protection | Nature Physics | 2011 | 1,110 |
| 38 | Quantum computation and quantum-state engineering driven by dissipation | Nature Physics | 2009 | 1,092 |
| 39 | Circuit quantum electrodynamics in the ultrastrong-coupling regime | Nature Physics | 2010 | 1,086 |
| 40 | Ultracold quantum gases in optical lattices | Nature Physics | 2005 | 1,084 |
| 41 | A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,074 |
| 42 | Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals | Nature Physics | 2008 | 1,065 |
| 43 | Quasiparticle dynamics in graphene | Nature Physics | 2007 | 1,035 |
| 44 | The fractional a.c. Josephson effect in a semiconductor–superconductor nanowire as a signature of Majorana particles | Nature Physics | 2012 | 1,022 |
| 45 | Quantum interference and Klein tunnelling in graphene heterojunctions | Nature Physics | 2009 | 1,011 |
| 46 | Machine learning phases of matter | Nature Physics | 2017 | 999 |
| 47 | Physical forces during collective cell migration | Nature Physics | 2009 | 989 |
| 48 | Networks formed from interdependent networks | Nature Physics | 2012 | 961 |
| 49 | Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride | Nature Physics | 2012 | 956 |
| 50 | Observation of Van Hove singularities in twisted graphene layers | Nature Physics | 2010 | 954 |
