Anderson (1973) Cambridge preprint!!It is worth noting that this 1973 paper now has more than 500 citations (in Scopus) and was the key idea behind Anderson's 1987 Science paper (5000+ citations). This is another example that citations on a 5 year time scale can be quite misleading about the significance of a piece of work.
Revived Pauling’s idea on resonance and gave a rather poor energy gs for Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the triangular lattice:
He did not fool us with the poor numbers emerging from his calculation: We were thoroughly impressed in 1973 by the originality and depth of his ideas!!
However, we were in a minority since there are only 5 or 6 other papers between 1973 and 1986 citing Anderson RVB, and 3 of them are mine and 2 by Anderson!!
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
RVB history and citations
In a talk he gave for a UC Davis Physics Colloquium in 2008 Sriram Shastry describes the background to his discovery of the Shastry-Sutherland lattice model [published in Physica B!] and spinons in the Majumdar-Ghosh model. [He received the 2009 Onsager Prize from the American Physical Society for this work].
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Do you have any papers that fall into this category?
ReplyDeleteI would be interested to know of good people that aren't Anderson (and his few peers) for whom this index would fail, especially anywhere near as spectacularly as this (for instance a paper with >100 citations from >5 years, but only a few before).
Interesting history.