Alicia Sit

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 963 citations indexed

About

Alicia Sit is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alicia Sit has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 963 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alicia Sit's work include Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (14 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (9 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (5 papers). Alicia Sit is often cited by papers focused on Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (14 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (9 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (5 papers). Alicia Sit collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Iran. Alicia Sit's co-authors include Ebrahim Karimi, Frédéric Bouchard, Robert Fickler, Khabat Heshami, Robert W. Boyd, Gerd Leuchs, Hugo Larocque, Christoph Marquardt, Yingwen Zhang and Dominique Elser and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters and Chemical Physics Letters.

In The Last Decade

Alicia Sit

23 papers receiving 907 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons

2017 366 citations Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard et al. Optica profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alicia Sit Canada	14	792	430	240	198	90	24	963
Christian T. Schmiegelow Argentina	19	1.1k 1.4×	544 1.3×	169 0.7×	106 0.5×	65 0.7×	37	1.3k
Emilio Pisanty Spain	17	1.1k 1.4×	124 0.3×	95 0.4×	163 0.8×	49 0.5×	40	1.2k
Boris Hage Germany	14	1.4k 1.8×	943 2.2×	141 0.6×	432 2.2×	33 0.4×	23	1.8k
Johannes Flick United States	22	2.0k 2.6×	510 1.2×	382 1.6×	257 1.3×	63 0.7×	47	2.4k
Troy D. Hammond United States	9	1.0k 1.3×	220 0.5×	73 0.3×	143 0.7×	75 0.8×	16	1.2k
Kevin J. Weatherill United Kingdom	19	2.1k 2.7×	575 1.3×	66 0.3×	224 1.1×	64 0.7×	44	2.3k
D. Rosenberg United States	16	621 0.8×	477 1.1×	73 0.3×	410 2.1×	20 0.2×	33	999
Roman Barankov United States	13	881 1.1×	76 0.2×	119 0.5×	130 0.7×	55 0.6×	25	1.0k
Keiichi Edamatsu Japan	22	1.6k 2.0×	894 2.1×	214 0.9×	636 3.2×	44 0.5×	112	1.9k
Peeter Saari Estonia	21	1.5k 2.0×	98 0.2×	207 0.9×	377 1.9×	50 0.6×	83	1.7k

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Sit, Alicia, et al.. (2024). Genetic algorithm for the response of arbitrarily twisted nematic liquid crystals to an applied field. Physical review. E. 109(5). 54705–54705. 1 indexed citations

Sit, Alicia, et al.. (2024). Spatially twisted liquid-crystal devices. APL Photonics. 9(5). 2 indexed citations

D’Errico, Alessio, et al.. (2021). Polychromatic electric field knots. Physical Review Research. 3(3). 12 indexed citations

Bouchard, Frédéric, Alicia Sit, Yingwen Zhang, et al.. (2020). Two-photon interference: the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect. Reports on Progress in Physics. 84(1). 12402–12402. 121 indexed citations

Hufnagel, Felix, Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard, et al.. (2020). Investigation of underwater quantum channels in a 30 meter flume tank using structured photons. New Journal of Physics. 22(9). 93074–93074. 29 indexed citations

Zhang, Yingwen, Frédéric Bouchard, Hugo Larocque, et al.. (2020). Cyclic quantum walks: photonic realization and decoherence analysis. NPARC. 2–2. 1 indexed citations

Bouchard, Frédéric, Alicia Sit, Felix Hufnagel, et al.. (2019). High-Dimensional Quantum Cryptography using Twisted Photons; from the Laboratory to realistic conditions. NPARC. S2A.3–S2A.3.

Hufnagel, Felix, Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard, et al.. (2019). Characterization of an underwater channel for quantum communications in the Ottawa River. Optics Express. 27(19). 26346–26346. 39 indexed citations

Bouchard, Frédéric, Felix Hufnagel, Alicia Sit, et al.. (2018). Full characterization of a high-dimensional quantum communication channel. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Bouchard, Frédéric, Alicia Sit, Felix Hufnagel, et al.. (2018). Quantum cryptography with twisted photons through an outdoor underwater channel. Optics Express. 26(17). 22563–22563. 76 indexed citations

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West, Brandi, et al.. (2018). Unimolecular reaction energies for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 20(10). 7195–7205. 50 indexed citations

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Bouchard, Frédéric, Alicia Sit, Khabat Heshami, Robert Fickler, & Ebrahim Karimi. (2018). Round-robin differential-phase-shift quantum key distribution with twisted photons. Physical review. A. 98(1). 25 indexed citations

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Sit, Alicia, Robert Fickler, Frédéric Bouchard, et al.. (2018). Quantum cryptography with structured photons through a vortex fiber. Optics Letters. 43(17). 4108–4108. 46 indexed citations

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Sit, Alicia, Frédéric Bouchard, Robert Fickler, et al.. (2017). High-dimensional intracity quantum cryptography with structured photons. Optica. 4(9). 1006–1006. 366 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sit, Alicia, Lambert Giner, Ebrahim Karimi, & Jeff S. Lundeen. (2017). General lossless spatial polarization transformations. Journal of Optics. 19(9). 94003–94003. 24 indexed citations

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Mafakheri, Erfan, Amir H. Tavabi, Peng‐Han Lu, et al.. (2017). Realization of electron vortices with large orbital angular momentum using miniature holograms fabricated by electron beam lithography. Applied Physics Letters. 110(9). 66 indexed citations

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Larocque, Hugo, Frédéric Bouchard, Vincenzo Grillo, et al.. (2016). Nondestructive Measurement of Orbital Angular Momentum for an Electron Beam. Physical Review Letters. 117(15). 154801–154801. 18 indexed citations

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Sit, Alicia, et al.. (2016). Colliding the hydrocarbon building blocks of astrochemical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with 8 keV He+ and H2+ ions: Luminescence from methane, acetylene, benzene and naphthalene. Chemical Physics Letters. 667. 129–136. 8 indexed citations

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West, Brandi, Alicia Sit, C. Joblin, et al.. (2014). Dissociation of the Anthracene Radical Cation: A Comparative Look at iPEPICO and Collision-Induced Dissociation Mass Spectrometry Results. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(42). 9870–9878. 24 indexed citations

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West, Brandi, Alicia Sit, András Bödi, Patrick Hemberger, & P. Mayer. (2014). Dissociative Photoionization and Threshold Photoelectron Spectra of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Fragments: An Imaging Photoelectron Photoion Coincidence (iPEPICO) Study of Four Substituted Benzene Radical Cations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 118(47). 11226–11234. 13 indexed citations

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