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215

S. Das Sarma publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S. Das Sarma sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 1,255 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

S. Das Sarma D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where S. Das Sarma sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 142 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

S. Das Sarma is a researcher affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily in Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science, with significant focus on subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics. The researcher has also contributed to Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics covered in their research include quantum and electron transport phenomena, topological materials and phenomena, graphene research and applications, physics of superconductivity and magnetism, quantum many-body systems, advanced condensed matter physics, and advancements in semiconductor devices and circuit design.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Physical Review B, where they have 118 publications, arXiv (Cornell University) with 85 publications, Physical Review Letters with 19, Physical Review Research with 5, and Physical Review Materials with 3 publications.

Notable recent papers by S. Das Sarma include:

  • Möbius Insulator and Higher-Order Topology in MnBi2nTe3n+1, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Disorder-induced zero-bias peaks in Majorana nanowires, 2021, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Collective Excitations of Quantum Anomalous Hall Ferromagnets in Twisted Bilayer Graphene, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Mobility edge and intermediate phase in one-dimensional incommensurate lattice potentials, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B
  • Quantum phase diagram of a Moiré-Hubbard model, 2020, Physical review. B./Physical review. B

Several co-authors have collaborated frequently with S. Das Sarma, including Yang-Zhi Chou, Jay D. Sau, Haining Pan, DinhDuy Vu, and Fengcheng Wu.

Best Publications

  • Spintronics: Fundamentals and applications

    Igor Žutić;Jaroslav Fabian;S. Das Sarma

  • Electronic transport in two-dimensional graphene

    S. Das Sarma;Shaffique Adam;E. H. Hwang;Enrico Rossi

  • Majorana Fermions and a Topological Phase Transition in Semiconductor-Superconductor Heterostructures

    Roman M. Lutchyn;Jay D. Sau;S. Das Sarma

  • Generic new platform for topological quantum computation using semiconductor heterostructures.

    Jay D. Sau;Roman M. Lutchyn;Sumanta Tewari;Sumanta Tewari;S. Das Sarma

  • Dielectric function, screening, and plasmons in two-dimensional graphene

    E. H. Hwang;S. Das Sarma

  • Dielectric function, screening, and plasmons in 2D graphene

    E. H. Hwang;S. Das Sarma

  • Carrier transport in two-dimensional graphene layers.

    E. H. Hwang;S. Adam;S. Das Sarma

  • A self-consistent theory for graphene transport

    Shaffique Adam;E. H. Hwang;Victor Galitski;S. Das Sarma

  • Measurement of scattering rate and minimum conductivity in graphene.

    Y.-W. Tan;Y. Zhang;K. Bolotin;Y. Zhao

  • High temperature ferromagnetism with a giant magnetic moment in transparent co-doped SnO(2-delta).

    S. B. Ogale;R. J. Choudhary;J. P. Buban;S. E. Lofland

  • Nearly flatbands with nontrivial topology.

    Kai Sun;Zhengcheng Gu;Hosho Katsura;S. Das Sarma

  • Acoustic phonon scattering limited carrier mobility in two-dimensional extrinsic graphene

    E. H. Hwang;S. Das Sarma

  • Polaron Percolation in Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors

    A. Kaminski;S. Das Sarma

  • Electron energy levels in GaAs- Ga 1 − x Al x As heterojunctions

    Frank Stern;Sankar Das Sarma

  • Kinetic growth with surface relaxation: Continuum versus atomistic models.

    Z.-W. Lai;S. Das Sarma

  • Retraction Note: Quantized Majorana conductance.

    Hao Zhang;Chun-Xiao Liu;Sasa Gazibegovic;Di Xu

  • A new universality class for kinetic growth: One-dimensional molecular-beam epitaxy.

    S. Das Sarma;P. Tamborenea

  • Flat bands and Wigner crystallization in the honeycomb optical lattice.

    Congjun Wu;Congjun Wu;Doron Bergman;Leon Balents;S. Das Sarma

  • How to Enhance Dephasing Time in Superconducting Qubits

    Łukasz Cywiński;Roman M. Lutchyn;Cody P. Nave;S. Das Sarma

  • Non-Abelian quantum order in spin-orbit-coupled semiconductors: Search for topological Majorana particles in solid-state systems

    Jay D. Sau;Sumanta Tewari;Sumanta Tewari;Roman M. Lutchyn;Tudor D. Stanescu;Tudor D. Stanescu

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaffique Adam
Shaffique Adam Yale-NUS College
Eugene Demler
Eugene Demler Harvard University
Andrew J. Millis
Andrew J. Millis Columbia University
Igor Žutić
Igor Žutić State University of New York
Zoltán Toroczkai
Zoltán Toroczkai University of Notre Dame
Ellen D. Williams
Ellen D. Williams University of Maryland, College Park
Chetan Nayak
Chetan Nayak Microsoft (United States)
Akiko Kobayashi
Akiko Kobayashi Nihon University
David A. Huse
David A. Huse Princeton University
Rodrigo B. Capaz
Rodrigo B. Capaz Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

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