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D-Index
51
Citations
11097
World Ranking
1022
National Ranking
79

Overview

Robert S. MacKay is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and has a research profile primarily rooted in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology, and Economics and Econometrics.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas such as Quantum Chaos and Dynamical Systems, Magnetic Confinement Fusion Research, Mathematical Dynamics and Fractals, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation, Complex Network Analysis Techniques, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Nonlinear Waves and Solitons.

MacKay has contributed to multiple recent papers, among which are:

  • How directed is a directed network?, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • The physics of gamma-ray bursts, 2020, Contemporary Physics

Frequent co-authors of MacKay include:

  • N. Kallinikos
  • J. W. Burby
  • David Martinez-del-Rio
  • C. Baesens
  • Astghik Mavisakalyan

MacKay's work has appeared regularly in several publication venues, with notable recurring appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nonlinearity
  • Contemporary Physics
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Best Publications

  • Proof of existence of breathers for time-reversible or Hamiltonian networks of weakly coupled oscillators

    R S MacKay;S Aubry

  • Transport in Hamiltonian systems

    R.S. Mackay;J.D. Meiss;I.C. Percival

  • Renormalisation in Area-Preserving Maps

    Robert Sinclair MacKay

  • Universal behaviour in families of area-preserving maps

    J.M. Greene;R.S. MacKay;F. Vivaldi;M.J. Feigenbaum

  • A renormalization approach to invariant circles in area-preserving maps

    R.S. MacKay

  • Hamiltonian dynamical systems : a reprint selection

    R. S. Mackay;J. D. Meiss

  • Three coupled oscillators: mode-locking, global bifurcations and toroidal chaos

    C. Baesens;J. Guckenheimer;S. Kim;R. S. MacKay

  • Frontiers of chaotic advection

    Hassan Aref;John R. Blake;Marko Budišić;Silvana S.S. Cardoso

  • Hamiltonian dynamical systems

    R.S MacKay;J.D Meiss

  • Energy thresholds for discrete breathers in one-, two- and three-dimensional lattices

    S. Flach;K. Kladko;R. S. MacKay

  • Converse KAM: theory and practice

    R. S. MacKay;I. C. Percival

  • Stochasticity and Transport in Hamiltonian Systems

    R. S. MacKay;J. D. Meiss;I. C. Percival

  • Resonances in area-preserving maps

    R. S. Mackay;J. D. Meiss;I. C. Percival

  • Transition to topological chaos for circle maps

    R S Mackay;C Treser

  • Rotation vectors and entropy for homeomorphisms of the torus isotopic to the identity

    J. Llibre;R. S. Mackay

  • Stability of Water Waves

    Robert Sinclair MacKay;Philip Geoffrey Saffman

  • Localized oscillations in conservative or dissipative networks of weakly coupled autonomous oscillators

    Jacques-Alexandre Sepulchre;Robert S MacKay

  • Multistability in networks of weakly coupled bistable units

    R. S. MacKay;J.-A. Sepulchre

  • Greene's residue criterion

    R S MacKay

  • Breathers on a diatomic FPU chain

    R Livi;M Spicci;R S MacKay

  • Linear stability of symplectic maps

    J. E. Howard;R. S. MacKay

Frequent Co-Authors

James D. Meiss
James D. Meiss University of Colorado Boulder
Michael Waterson
Michael Waterson University of Warwick
Jaume Llibre
Jaume Llibre Autonomous University of Barcelona
John Guckenheimer
John Guckenheimer Cornell University
Dirk Helbing
Dirk Helbing ETH Zurich
Serge Aubry
Serge Aubry Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Thierry Dauxois
Thierry Dauxois École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Anthony C. Davison
Anthony C. Davison École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky McMaster University
Steven R. Bishop
Steven R. Bishop University College London

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