| Measurement of the Lyapunov spectrum from a chaotic time series M Sano, Y Sawada Physical review letters 55 (10), 1082, 1985 | 1604 | 1985 |
| Active motion of a Janus particle by self-thermophoresis in a defocused laser beam HR Jiang, N Yoshinaga, M Sano Physical review letters 105 (26), 268302, 2010 | 1215 | 2010 |
| Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality S Toyabe, T Sagawa, M Ueda, E Muneyuki, M Sano Nature physics 6 (12), 988-992, 2010 | 1210 | 2010 |
| Fractal structures of zinc metal leaves grown by electrodeposition M Matsushita, M Sano, Y Hayakawa, H Honjo, Y Sawada Physical review letters 53 (3), 286, 1984 | 988 | 1984 |
| Topological defects control collective dynamics in neural progenitor cell cultures K Kawaguchi, R Kageyama, M Sano Nature 545 (7654), 327-331, 2017 | 543 | 2017 |
| Practical methods of measuring the generalized dimension and the largest Lyapunov exponent in high dimensional chaotic systems S Sato, M Sano, Y Sawada Progress of theoretical physics 77 (1), 1-5, 1987 | 413 | 1987 |
| Universal fluctuations of growing interfaces: evidence in turbulent liquid crystals KA Takeuchi, M Sano Physical review letters 104 (23), 230601, 2010 | 407 | 2010 |
| Collective motion in a system of motile elements N Shimoyama, K Sugawara, T Mizuguchi, Y Hayakawa, M Sano Physical Review Letters 76 (20), 3870, 1996 | 374 | 1996 |
| Turbulence in helium-gas free convection M Sano, XZ Wu, A Libchaber Physical Review A 40 (11), 6421, 1989 | 360 | 1989 |
| Growing interfaces uncover universal fluctuations behind scale invariance KA Takeuchi, M Sano, T Sasamoto, H Spohn Scientific reports 1 (1), 34, 2011 | 340 | 2011 |
| Directed percolation criticality in turbulent liquid crystals KA Takeuchi, M Kuroda, H Chaté, M Sano arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.4151, 2007 | 339 | 2007 |
| Transition between crack patterns in quenched glass plates A Yuse, M Sano Nature 362 (6418), 329-331, 1993 | 322 | 1993 |
| Manipulation of colloids by a nonequilibrium depletion force in a temperature gradient HR Jiang, H Wada, N Yoshinaga, M Sano Physical review letters 102 (20), 208301, 2009 | 316 | 2009 |
| Frequency power spectrum of temperature fluctuations in free convection XZ Wu, L Kadanoff, A Libchaber, M Sano Physical review letters 64 (18), 2140, 1990 | 294 | 1990 |
| A universal transition to turbulence in channel flow M Sano, K Tamai Nature Physics 12 (3), 249-253, 2016 | 264 | 2016 |
| Evidence for geometry-dependent universal fluctuations of the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang interfaces in liquid-crystal turbulence KA Takeuchi, M Sano Journal of Statistical Physics 147 (5), 853-890, 2012 | 226 | 2012 |
| Evidence against ‘ultrahard’thermal turbulence at very high Rayleigh numbers JA Glazier, T Segawa, A Naert, M Sano Nature 398 (6725), 307-310, 1999 | 206 | 1999 |
| Long-range nematic order and anomalous fluctuations in suspensions of swimming filamentous bacteria D Nishiguchi, KH Nagai, H Chaté, M Sano Physical Review E 95 (2), 020601, 2017 | 188 | 2017 |
| Cooperative acceleration of task performance: Foraging behavior of interacting multi-robots system K Sugawara, M Sano Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 100 (3-4), 343-354, 1997 | 176 | 1997 |
| Thermal turbulence in mercury T Takeshita, T Segawa, JA Glazier, M Sano Physical review letters 76 (9), 1465, 1996 | 174 | 1996 |