Collection | 31 March 2021

Top 100 in Physics

This collection highlights our most downloaded* physics papers published in 2020. Featuring authors from around the world, these papers showcase valuable research from an international community.

*Data obtained from SN Insights which is based on Digital Science's Dimensions.

1-25

Excitation of Faraday-like body waves in vibrated living earthworms

Ivan S. Maksymov &
Andrey Pototsky

Article | Open Access | 22 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Design and characterization of an acoustic composite lens with high-intensity and directionally controllable focusing

Hongyu Sun,
Shen Wang ⋯
Wei Zhao

Article | Open Access | 30 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Swarm Hunting and Cluster Ejections in Chemically Communicating Active Mixtures

Jens Grauer,
Hartmut Löwen ⋯
Benno Liebchen

Article | Open Access | 27 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Deposits from giant floods in Gale crater and their implications for the climate of early Mars

E. Heydari,
J. F. Schroeder ⋯
A. G. Fairén

Article | Open Access | 5 Nov 2020 | Scientific Reports

Quantum random number generators with entanglement for public randomness testing

Janusz E. Jacak,
Witold A. Jacak ⋯
Lucjan Jacak

Article | Open Access | 13 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Magnetometer with nitrogen-vacancy center in a bulk diamond for detecting magnetic nanoparticles in biomedical applications

Akihiro Kuwahata,
Takahiro Kitaizumi ⋯
Masaki Sekino

Article | Open Access | 12 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Generation of megatesla magnetic fields by intense-laser-driven microtube implosions

M. Murakami,
J. J. Honrubia ⋯
S. V. Bulanov

Article | Open Access | 6 Oct 2020 | Scientific Reports

Quantum double-double-slit experiment with momentum entangled photons

Manpreet Kaur &
Mandip Singh

Article | Open Access | 10 Jul 2020 | Scientific Reports

Amoeba-inspired analog electronic computing system integrating resistance crossbar for solving the travelling salesman problem

Kenta Saito,
Masashi Aono &
Seiya Kasai

Article | Open Access | 27 Nov 2020 | Scientific Reports

Acoustic levitation with optimized reflective metamaterials

Spyros Polychronopoulos &
Gianluca Memoli

Article | Open Access | 6 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

The Chaotic Terrains of Mercury Reveal a History of Planetary Volatile Retention and Loss in the Innermost Solar System

J. Alexis P. Rodriguez,
Gregory J. Leonard ⋯
Mark Sykes

Article | Open Access | 16 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Information theory and dimensionality of space

Subhash Kak

Article | Open Access | 26 Nov 2020 | Scientific Reports

Impact of Spin-Orbit Torque on Spin-Transfer Torque Switching in Magnetic Tunnel Junctions

Sachin Pathak,
Chanyoung Youm &
Jongill Hong

Article | Open Access | 18 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Narrow-band hard-x-ray lasing with highly charged ions

Chunhai Lyu,
Stefano M. Cavaletto ⋯
Zoltán Harman

Article | Open Access | 10 Jun 2020 | Scientific Reports

Answering Mermin’s challenge with conservation per no preferred reference frame

W. M. Stuckey,
Michael Silberstein ⋯
T. D. Le

Article | Open Access | 25 Sep 2020 | Scientific Reports

Co-appearance of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in a Ca₂RuO₄ nanofilm crystal

Hiroyoshi Nobukane,
Kosei Yanagihara ⋯
Satoshi Tanda

Article | Open Access | 26 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

An In-situ and Direct Confirmation of Super-Planckian Thermal Radiation Emitted From a Metallic Photonic-Crystal at Optical Wavelengths

Shawn-Yu Lin,
Mei-Li Hsieh ⋯
Shankar Narayanan

Article | Open Access | 23 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Identification of networking quantum teleportation on 14-qubit IBM universal quantum computer

Ni-Ni Huang,
Wei-Hao Huang &
Che-Ming Li

Article | Open Access | 20 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

The nature of the diffuse light near cities detected in nighttime satellite imagery

Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel,
Christopher C. M. Kyba ⋯
Kevin J. Gaston

Article | Open Access | 8 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

A discrete core-shell-like micro-light-emitting diode array grown on sapphire nano-membranes

Seungmin Lee,
Jongmyeong Kim ⋯
Euijoon Yoon

Article | Open Access | 5 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Methanogenic Archaea Can Produce Methane in Deliquescence-Driven Mars Analog Environments

Deborah Maus,
Jacob Heinz ⋯
Dirk Schulze-Makuch

Article | Open Access | 8 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Estimating survival probability using the terrestrial extinction history for the search for extraterrestrial life

Kohji Tsumura

Article | Open Access | 30 Jul 2020 | Scientific Reports

Reinforcement Quantum Annealing: A Hybrid Quantum Learning Automata

Ramin Ayanzadeh,
Milton Halem &
Tim Finin

Article | Open Access | 14 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Thermoelectric properties of graphene-like nanoribbon studied from the perspective of symmetry

Ye-Bin Dai,
Kai Luo &
Xue-Feng Wang

Article | Open Access | 4 Jun 2020 | Scientific Reports

Machine-Learning Studies on Spin Models

Kenta Shiina,
Hiroyuki Mori ⋯
Hwee Kuan Lee

Article | Open Access | 7 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

26-50

Intrinsically p-type cuprous iodide semiconductor for hybrid light-emitting diodes

D. Ahn,
J. D. Song ⋯
Joonyeon Chang

Article | Open Access | 4 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

A Galactic centre gravitational-wave Messenger

Marek Abramowicz,
Michał Bejger ⋯
Odele Straub

Article | Open Access | 27 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Optically tunable terahertz chiral metasurface based on multi-layered graphene

Maxim Masyukov,
Anna Vozianova ⋯
Mikhail Khodzitsky

Article | Open Access | 21 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Hybrid image sensor of small molecule organic photodiode on CMOS – Integration and characterization

Himanshu Shekhar,
Amos Fenigstein ⋯
Nir Tessler

Article | Open Access | 5 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Position and Direction Tracking of a Magnetic Object Based on an M_x-Atomic Magnetometer

Asieh Soheilian,
Maliheh Ranjbaran &
Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi

Article | Open Access | 28 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Breaking limitation of quantum annealer in solving optimization problems under constraints

Masayuki Ohzeki

Article | Open Access | 20 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

A quantum algorithm for evolving open quantum dynamics on quantum computing devices

Zixuan Hu,
Rongxin Xia &
Sabre Kais

Article | Open Access | 24 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Theory of relaxor-ferroelectricity

Li-Li Zhang &
Yi-Neng Huang

Article | Open Access | 19 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Quantum thermodynamics of single particle systems

Md. Manirul Ali,
Wei-Ming Huang &
Wei-Min Zhang

Article | Open Access | 11 Aug 2020 | Scientific Reports

Broadband microwave coding metamaterial absorbers

Manh Cuong Tran,
Van Hai Pham ⋯
Dinh Lam Vu

Article | Open Access | 4 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

From LaH₁₀ to room–temperature superconductors

M. Kostrzewa,
K. M. Szczęśniak ⋯
R. Szczęśniak

Article | Open Access | 31 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

High mobility approaching the intrinsic limit in Ta-doped SnO₂ films epitaxially grown on TiO₂ (001) substrates

Michitaka Fukumoto,
Shoichiro Nakao ⋯
Tetsuya Hasegawa

Article | Open Access | 22 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Damage-free Metal Electrode Transfer to Monolayer Organic Single Crystalline Thin Films

Tatsuyuki Makita,
Akifumi Yamamura ⋯
Jun Takeya

Article | Open Access | 13 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Forecasting high-dimensional dynamics exploiting suboptimal embeddings

Shunya Okuno,
Kazuyuki Aihara &
Yoshito Hirata

Article | Open Access | 20 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Separating the two polarities of the POLO contacts of an 26.1%-efficient IBC solar cell

C. Hollemann,
F. Haase ⋯
R. Peibst

Article | Open Access | 20 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Prime factorization algorithm based on parameter optimization of Ising model

Baonan Wang,
Feng Hu ⋯
Chao Wang

Article | Open Access | 28 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

CVD-Grown Carbon Nanotube Branches on Black Silicon Stems for Ultrahigh Absorbance in Wide Wavelength Range

Thanh Luan Phan &
Woo Jong Yu

Article | Open Access | 2 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Energy-Dispersive X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy with an Inverse Compton Source

Juanjuan Huang,
Benedikt Günther ⋯
Franz Pfeiffer

Article | Open Access | 29 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

A percolation model for the emergence of the Bitcoin Lightning Network

Silvia Bartolucci,
Fabio Caccioli &
Pierpaolo Vivo

Article | Open Access | 11 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

A thin film efficient pn-junction thermoelectric device fabricated by self-align shadow mask

Gilbert Kogo,
Bo Xiao ⋯
Messaoud Bahoura

Article | Open Access | 23 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Enhanced Kinetic Impactor for Deflecting Large Potentially Hazardous Asteroids via Maneuvering Space Rocks

Mingtao Li,
Yirui Wang ⋯
Wei Zheng

Article | Open Access | 22 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Surface Dielectric Barrier Discharge plasma: a suitable measure against fungal plant pathogens

Paolo F. Ambrico,
Milan Šimek ⋯
Rita M. De Miccolis Angelini

Article | Open Access | 28 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Role of Molecular Orbital Energy Levels in OLED Performance

Rohit Ashok Kumar Yadav,
Deepak Kumar Dubey ⋯
Jwo-Huei Jou

Article | Open Access | 18 Jun 2020 | Scientific Reports

Ionisation processes and laser induced periodic surface structures in dielectrics with mid-infrared femtosecond laser pulses

George D. Tsibidis &
Emmanuel Stratakis

Article | Open Access | 26 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Phase estimation algorithm for the multibeam optical metrology

V. V. Zemlyanov,
N. S. Kirsanov ⋯
G. B. Lesovik

Article | Open Access | 26 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

51-75

High Performance All Nonmetal SiN_x Resistive Random Access Memory with Strong Process Dependence

Te Jui Yen,
Albert Chin &
Vladimir Gritsenko

Article | Open Access | 18 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Unveiling the Physics of the Mutual Interactions in Paramagnets

Lucas Squillante,
Isys F. Mello ⋯
Mariano de Souza

Article | Open Access | 14 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

NanoThermoMechanical AND and OR Logic Gates

Ahmed Hamed &
Sidy Ndao

Article | Open Access | 12 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Modified Drude model for small gold nanoparticles surface plasmon resonance based on the role of classical confinement

Asef Kheirandish,
Nasser Sepehri Javan &
Hosein Mohammadzadeh

Article | Open Access | 16 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

An anomaly in quantum phases induced by borders

Jun Jing,
Mike Guidry &
Lian-Ao Wu

Article | Open Access | 24 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Room Temperature Electrically Detected Nuclear Spin Coherence of NV Centres in Diamond

H. Morishita,
S. Kobayashi ⋯
N. Mizuochi

Article | Open Access | 21 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Cryogenic Memory Architecture Integrating Spin Hall Effect based Magnetic Memory and Superconductive Cryotron Devices

Minh-Hai Nguyen,
Guilhem J. Ribeill ⋯
Thomas A. Ohki

Article | Open Access | 14 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Self-Assembled Electret for Vibration-Based Power Generator

Yuya Tanaka,
Noritaka Matsuura &
Hisao Ishii

Article | Open Access | 20 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

System for the remote control and imaging of MW fields for spin manipulation in NV centers in diamond

Giacomo Mariani,
Shuhei Nomoto ⋯
Shintaro Nomura

Article | Open Access | 16 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Quantum State Optimization and Computational Pathway Evaluation for Gate-Model Quantum Computers

Laszlo Gyongyosi

Article | Open Access | 11 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Fluctuations in measured radioactive decay rates inside a modified Faraday cage: Correlations with space weather

V. Milián-Sánchez,
F. Scholkmann ⋯
G. Verdú

Article | Open Access | 22 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Optimizing High-Efficiency Quantum Memory with Quantum Machine Learning for Near-Term Quantum Devices

Laszlo Gyongyosi &
Sandor Imre

Article | Open Access | 10 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Estimating the photo-fission yield of the Trinity Test

F. A. Khan

Article | Open Access | 6 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Simple analytical method for determining electrical resistivity and sheet resistance using the van der Pauw procedure

F. S. Oliveira,
R. B. Cipriano ⋯
C. A. M. dos Santos

Article | Open Access | 2 Oct 2020 | Scientific Reports

Evaporation coefficient and condensation coefficient of vapor under high gas pressure conditions

Kotaro Ohashi,
Kazumichi Kobayashi ⋯
Masao Watanabe

Article | Open Access | 18 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Radiative MHD Casson Nanofluid Flow with Activation energy and chemical reaction over past nonlinearly stretching surface through Entropy generation

Zahir Shah,
Poom Kumam &
Wejdan Deebani

Article | Open Access | 10 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

The influence of AlN buffer layer on the growth of self-assembled GaN nanocolumns on graphene

Andreas Liudi Mulyo,
Mohana K. Rajpalke ⋯
Bjørn-Ove Fimland

Article | Open Access | 21 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Skewed electronic band structure induced by electric polarization in ferroelectric BaTiO₃

Norihiro Oshime,
Jun Kano ⋯
Hitoshi Osawa

Article | Open Access | 1 Jul 2020 | Scientific Reports

Integration of amorphous ferromagnetic oxides with multiferroic materials for room temperature magnetoelectric spintronics

Humaira Taz,
Bhagwati Prasad ⋯
Ramki Kalyanaraman

Article | Open Access | 27 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Experimental observation of drumhead surface states in SrAs₃

M. Mofazzel Hosen,
Gyanendra Dhakal ⋯
Madhab Neupane

Article | Open Access | 17 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Classifying superconductivity in Moiré graphene superlattices

E. F. Talantsev,
R. C. Mataira &
W. P. Crump

Article | Open Access | 14 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Tuning interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions in thin amorphous ferrimagnetic alloys

Y. Quessab,
J-W. Xu ⋯
A. D. Kent

Article | Open Access | 4 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Rumor spreading model considering rumor credibility, correlation and crowd classification based on personality

Xuelong Chen &
Nan Wang

Article | Open Access | 3 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Crystal-like order and defects in metazoan epithelia with spherical geometry

Daria S. Roshal,
Karim Azzag ⋯
Stephen Baghdiguian

Article | Open Access | 6 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

The role of faceting and elongation on the magnetic anisotropy of magnetite Fe₃O₄ nanocrystals

Roberto Moreno,
Samuel Poyser ⋯
Richard F. L. Evans

Article | Open Access | 17 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

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Fast camera spatial characterization of photonic polarization entanglement

Christopher Ianzano,
Peter Svihra ⋯
Eden Figueroa

Article | Open Access | 10 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Hinged-3D metamaterials with giant and strain-independent Poisson’s ratios

Mohamed Shaat &
Ahmed Wagih

Article | Open Access | 10 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Spin-orbit Torque Switching of Perpendicular Magnetization in Ferromagnetic Trilayers

Dong-Kyu Lee &
Kyung-Jin Lee

Article | Open Access | 4 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Surface Enhanced Visible Absorption of Dye Molecules in the Near-Field of Gold Nanoparticles

S. Elhani,
H. Ishitobi ⋯
Z. Sekkat

Article | Open Access | 3 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Effects of Oxygen Modification on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Highly Epitaxial La_0.7Sr_0.3MnO₃ (LSMO) thin films

Shalini Kumari,
Navid Mottaghi ⋯
Mikel B. Holcomb

Article | Open Access | 27 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Single-shot all-optical switching of magnetization in Tb/Co multilayer-based electrodes

L. Avilés-Félix,
A. Olivier ⋯
I. L. Prejbeanu

Article | Open Access | 23 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Tuneable quantum spin Hall states in confined 1T' transition metal dichalcogenides

Biswapriyo Das,
Diptiman Sen &
Santanu Mahapatra

Article | Open Access | 21 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Molecular Orientation in a Variable-Focus Liquid Crystal Lens Induced by Ultrasound Vibration

Yuki Harada,
Daisuke Koyama ⋯
Mami Matsukawa

Article | Open Access | 10 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Topological transitions in an oscillatory driven liquid crystal cell

Marcel G. Clerc,
Michał Kowalczyk &
Valeska Zambra

Article | Open Access | 9 Nov 2020 | Scientific Reports

Electrical activity at the AlN/Si Interface: identifying the main origin of propagation losses in GaN-on-Si devices at microwave frequencies

Micka Bah,
Damien Valente ⋯
Yvon Cordier

Article | Open Access | 25 Aug 2020 | Scientific Reports

Sub-lattice of Jahn-Teller centers in hexaferrite crystal

V. V. Gudkov,
M. N. Sarychev ⋯
I. B. Bersuker

Article | Open Access | 27 Apr 2020 | Scientific Reports

Double power-law viscoelastic relaxation of living cells encodes motility trends

J. S. de Sousa,
R. S. Freire ⋯
C. L. N. Oliveira

Article | Open Access | 16 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Floquet-engineered quantum walks

Haruna Katayama,
Noriyuki Hatakenaka &
Toshiyuki Fujii

Article | Open Access | 16 Oct 2020 | Scientific Reports

A fibered laser system for the MIGA large scale atom interferometer

D. O. Sabulsky,
J. Junca ⋯
B. Canuel

Article | Open Access | 24 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Circuit Depth Reduction for Gate-Model Quantum Computers

Laszlo Gyongyosi &
Sandor Imre

Article | Open Access | 8 Jul 2020 | Scientific Reports

Formation and suppression of hydrogen blisters in tunnelling oxide passivating contact for crystalline silicon solar cells

Sungjin Choi,
Ohmin Kwon ⋯
Ka-Hyun Kim

Article | Open Access | 15 Jun 2020 | Scientific Reports

Experimental realization of controlled quantum teleportation of arbitrary qubit states via cluster states

Abhijeet Kumar,
Saeed Haddadi ⋯
Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Article | Open Access | 12 Aug 2020 | Scientific Reports

Identifying vital nodes in complex networks by adjacency information entropy

Xiang Xu,
Cheng Zhu ⋯
Yun Zhou

Article | Open Access | 14 Feb 2020 | Scientific Reports

Surface plasmon enhanced Organic color image sensor with Ag nanoparticles coated with silicon oxynitride

Sung Heo,
Jooho Lee ⋯
Kyung-Bae Park

Article | Open Access | 14 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

Investigating the biological potential of galactic cosmic ray-induced radiation-driven chemical disequilibrium in the Martian subsurface environment

Dimitra Atri

Article | Open Access | 28 Jul 2020 | Scientific Reports

Ultra-thin passivation layers in Cu(In,Ga)Se₂ thin-film solar cells: full-area passivated front contacts and their impact on bulk doping

Florian Werner,
Boris Veith-Wolf ⋯
Susanne Siebentritt

Article | Open Access | 5 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

Analysis of Surface Current by Quantum Tunneling Effect of Thin Film Transistors with Topological Insulators

Teresa Oh

Article | Open Access | 11 Jun 2020 | Scientific Reports

Acoustic waveguide with virtual soft boundary based on metamaterials

Guang-Sheng Liu,
Yang Zhou ⋯
Jian-Chun Cheng

Article | Open Access | 22 Jan 2020 | Scientific Reports

A caloritronics-based Mott neuristor

Javier del Valle,
Pavel Salev ⋯
Ivan K. Schuller

Article | Open Access | 9 Mar 2020 | Scientific Reports

Upconversion photoluminescence of Ho³⁺-Yb³⁺ doped barium titanate nanocrystallites: Optical tools for structural phase detection and temperature probing

Manoj Kumar Mahata,
Tristan Koppe ⋯
Ulrich Vetter

Article | Open Access | 29 May 2020 | Scientific Reports

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