| Thermal vestige of the zero-temperature jamming transition Z Zhang, N Xu, DTN Chen, P Yunker, AM Alsayed, KB Aptowicz, ... Nature 459 (7244), 230-233, 2009 | 335 | 2009 |
| Visualizing kinetic pathways of homogeneous nucleation in colloidal crystallization P Tan, N Xu, L Xu Nature Physics 10 (1), 73-79, 2014 | 257 | 2014 |
| Anharmonic and quasi-localized vibrations in jammed solids—modes for mechanical failure N Xu, V Vitelli, AJ Liu, SR Nagel Europhysics Letters 90 (5), 56001, 2010 | 193 | 2010 |
| Random close packing revisited: Ways to pack frictionless disks N Xu, J Blawzdziewicz, CS O’Hern Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 71 (6 …, 2005 | 164 | 2005 |
| Excess vibrational modes and the boson peak in model glasses N Xu, M Wyart, AJ Liu, SR Nagel Physical review letters 98 (17), 175502, 2007 | 153 | 2007 |
| Heat transport in model jammed solids V Vitelli, N Xu, M Wyart, AJ Liu, SR Nagel Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 81 (2 …, 2010 | 139 | 2010 |
| Excitations of ellipsoid packings near jamming Z Zeravcic, N Xu, AJ Liu, SR Nagel, W van Saarloos Europhysics Letters 87 (2), 26001, 2009 | 128 | 2009 |
| A comparison of jamming behavior in systems composed of dimer-and ellipse-shaped particles CF Schreck, N Xu, CS O'Hern Soft Matter 6 (13), 2960-2969, 2010 | 127 | 2010 |
| Energy transport in jammed sphere packings N Xu, V Vitelli, M Wyart, AJ Liu, SR Nagel Physical review letters 102 (3), 038001, 2009 | 122 | 2009 |
| Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit N Xu, TK Haxton, AJ Liu, SR Nagel Physical review letters 103 (24), 245701, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| Reversible plastic events in amorphous materials M Lundberg, K Krishan, N Xu, CS O’Hern, M Dennin Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 77 (4 …, 2008 | 98 | 2008 |
| Soft modes and elasticity of nearly isostatic lattices: Randomness and dissipation X Mao, N Xu, TC Lubensky Physical review letters 104 (8), 085504, 2010 | 95 | 2010 |
| Measurements of the yield stress in frictionless granular systems N Xu, CS O’Hern Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics 73 (6 …, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| Density affects the nature of the hexatic-liquid transition in two-dimensional melting of soft-core systems M Zu, J Liu, H Tong, N Xu Physical review letters 117 (8), 085702, 2016 | 67 | 2016 |
| From crystals to disordered crystals: A hidden order-disorder transition H Tong, P Tan, N Xu Scientific reports 5 (1), 15378, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Understanding the low-frequency quasilocalized modes in disordered colloidal systems P Tan, N Xu, AB Schofield, L Xu Physical review letters 108 (9), 095501, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
| Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles M Zu, P Tan, N Xu Nature communications 8 (1), 2089, 2017 | 57 | 2017 |
| Direct determination of the size of basins of attraction of jammed solids N Xu, D Frenkel, AJ Liu Physical Review Letters 106 (24), 245502, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| New jamming scenario: From marginal jamming to deep jamming C Zhao, K Tian, N Xu Physical review letters 106 (12), 125503, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| Effective temperature in athermal systems sheared at fixed normal load N Xu, CS O'Hern Physical review letters 94 (5), 055701, 2005 | 47 | 2005 |
