I ended the previous blog with a list of “long-fuse” astronomy papers and I realized that, since I have similar results for physics papers too, why not show them here as well? So, that’s what this blog will be about. Just a list of those “long-fuse” physics papers. There is another blog in the making that will explore the statistics a little bit more, so stay tuned…

Here’s a list of 31 “long-fuse” physics papers. There are definitely more, but this is a nice illustrative set with some true gems…

1. Buckingham, E. (1914), “On Physically Similar Systems; Illustrations of the Use of Dimensional Equations”, Physical Review, vol. 4, Issue 4, pp. 345-376
2. Washburn, Edward W. (1921), “The Dynamics of Capillary Flow”, Physical Review, vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 273-283
3. Robertson, H. P. (1929), “The Uncertainty Principle”, Physical Review, vol. 34, Issue 1, pp. 163-164
4. Einstein, A.; Podolsky, B.; Rosen, N. (1935), “Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?”, Physical Review, vol. 47, Issue 10, pp. 777-780
5. Beth, Richard A. (1936), “Mechanical Detection and Measurement of the Angular Momentum of Light”, Physical Review, vol. 50, Issue 2, pp. 115-125
6. Tolman, Richard C. (1939), “Static Solutions of Einstein’s Field Equations for Spheres of Fluid”, Physical Review, vol. 55, Issue 4, pp. 364-373
7. Patterson, A. L. (1939), “The Scherrer Formula for X-Ray Particle Size Determination”, Physical Review, vol. 56, Issue 10, pp. 978-982
8. Snyder, Hartland S. (1947), “Quantized Space-Time”, Physical Review, vol. 71, Issue 1, pp. 38-41
9. Wallace, P. R. (1947), “The Band Theory of Graphite”, Physical Review, vol. 71, Issue 9, pp. 622-634
10. Birch, Francis (1947), “Finite Elastic Strain of Cubic Crystals”, Physical Review, vol. 71, Issue 11, pp. 809-824
11. Snyder, Hartland S. (1947), “The Electromagnetic Field in Quantized Space-Time”, Physical Review, vol. 72, Issue 1, pp. 68-71
12. Dresselhaus, G. (1955), “Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects in Zinc Blende Structures”, Physical Review, vol. 100, Issue 2, pp. 580-586
13. Dyakonov, M. I.; Perel, V. I. (1971), “Current-induced spin orientation of electrons in semiconductors”, Physics Letters A, Volume 35, Issue 6, p. 459-460.
14. Polder, D.; van Hove, M. (1971), “Theory of Radiative Heat Transfer between Closely Spaced Bodies”, Physical Review B, vol. 4, Issue 10, pp. 3303-3314
15. Vainshtein, A. I. (1972), “To the problem of nonvanishing gravitation mass”, Physics Letters B, Volume 39, Issue 3, p. 393-394.
16. Boulware, David G.; Deser, S. (1972), “Can Gravitation Have a Finite Range?”, Physical Review D, vol. 6, Issue 12, pp. 3368-3382
17. Minkowski, Peter (1977), “μ→e γ at a rate of one out of 10 ⁹ muon decays?”, Physics Letters B, Volume 67, Issue 4, p. 421-428.
18. Konetschny, W.; Kummer, W. (1977), “Nonconservation of total lepton number with scalar bosons”, Physics Letters B, Volume 70, Issue 4, p. 433-435.
19. Deshpande, Nilendra G.; Ma, Ernest (1978), “Pattern of symmetry breaking with two Higgs doublets”, Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 18, Issue 7, 1 October 1978, pp.2574-2576
20. Magg, M.; Wetterich, Ch. (1980), “Neutrino mass problem and gauge hierarchy”, Physics Letters B, Volume 94, Issue 1, p. 61-64.
21. Sriram Shastry, B.; Sutherland, Bill (1981), “Exact ground state of a quantum mechanical antiferromagnet”, Physica B+C, Volume 108, Issue 1, p. 1069-1070.
22. Ginsparg, Paul H.; Wilson, Kenneth G. (1982), “A remnant of chiral symmetry on the lattice”, Physical Review D (Particles and Fields), Volume 25, Issue 10, 15 May 1982, pp.2649-2657
23. Keung, Wai-Yee; Senjanović, Goran (1983), “Majorana Neutrinos and the Production of the Right-Handed Charged Gauge Boson”, Physical Review Letters, Volume 50, Issue 19, May 9, 1983, pp.1427-1430
24. Silveira, Vanda; Zee, A. (1985), “Scalar Phantoms”, Physics Letters B, Volume 161, Issue 1-3, p. 136-140.
25. Zee, A. (1986), “Quantum numbers of Majorana neutrino masses”, Nuclear Physics, Section B, Volume 264, p. 99-110.
26. Wilczek, Frank (1987), “Two applications of axion electrodynamics”, Physical Review Letters (ISSN 0031-9007), vol. 58, May 4, 1987, p. 1799-1802. NASA-supported research.
27. Haldane, F. D. M. (1988), “Model for a quantum Hall effect without Landau levels: Condensed-matter realization of the “parity anomaly””, Physical Review Letters, Volume 61, Issue 18, October 31, 1988, pp.2015-2018
28. Deutsch, J. M. (1991), “Quantum statistical mechanics in a closed system”, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics), Volume 43, Issue 4, February 15, 1991, pp.2046-2049
29. Siegel, W. (1993), “Superspace duality in low-energy superstrings”, Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology), Volume 48, Issue 6, 15 September 1993, pp.2826-2837
30. Takeda, Kyozaburo; Shiraishi, Kenji (1994), “Theoretical possibility of stage corrugation in Si and Ge analogs of graphite”, Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), Volume 50, Issue 20, November 15, 1994, pp.14916-14922
31. Srednicki, Mark (1994), “Chaos and quantum thermalization”, Physical Review E (Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics), Volume 50, Issue 2, August 1994, pp.888-901