David Elkouss

7.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
47 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

David Elkouss is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, David Elkouss has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 6 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in David Elkouss's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (39 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (36 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (23 papers). David Elkouss is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (39 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (36 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (23 papers). David Elkouss collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Japan and Spain. David Elkouss's co-authors include Stephanie Wehner, Ronald Hanson, T. H. Taminiau, Daniel J. Twitchen, Matthew Markham, Machiel Blok, Norbert Kalb, R. F. L. Vermeulen, R. N. Schouten and Bas Hensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

David Elkouss

44 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres

2015 1.5k citations Bas Hensen, Hannes Bernien et al. Nature profile →
Quantum internet: A vision for the road ahead

2018 1.3k citations Stephanie Wehner, David Elkouss et al. profile →
Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet

2023 220 citations Koji Azuma, Sophia E. Economou et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Elkouss Netherlands	19	3.0k	3.0k	513	437	200	47	3.9k
R. N. Schouten Netherlands	20	3.2k 1.1×	2.4k 0.8×	688 1.3×	501 1.1×	264 1.3×	34	3.9k
Machiel Blok Netherlands	15	3.3k 1.1×	2.6k 0.9×	533 1.0×	1.2k 2.7×	246 1.2×	25	4.1k
Andreas Reiserer Germany	21	3.7k 1.2×	3.0k 1.0×	786 1.5×	475 1.1×	206 1.0×	37	4.2k
Frédéric Grosshans France	20	3.5k 1.2×	3.8k 1.3×	504 1.0×	270 0.6×	97 0.5×	40	4.3k
Waldimar Amaya Spain	12	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	328 0.6×	267 0.6×	164 0.8×	39	2.1k
Thomas Gerrits United States	29	2.9k 1.0×	2.8k 1.0×	1.2k 2.4×	134 0.3×	144 0.7×	107	4.1k
Norbert Kalb Netherlands	10	1.9k 0.6×	1.5k 0.5×	294 0.6×	509 1.2×	168 0.8×	12	2.3k
A. Dréau France	22	2.8k 0.9×	1.6k 0.6×	624 1.2×	1.4k 3.1×	179 0.9×	32	3.6k
Geoff J. Pryde Australia	35	5.4k 1.8×	5.7k 1.9×	965 1.9×	149 0.3×	425 2.1×	91	6.7k
Nathan K. Langford United Kingdom	33	4.5k 1.5×	4.3k 1.5×	1.2k 2.3×	180 0.4×	228 1.1×	60	5.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Elkouss

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Hajdušek, Michal, et al.. (2025). Disti-Mator, an entanglement distillation-based state estimator. Communications Physics. 8(1).

Roga, Wojciech, et al.. (2025). Simple loss-tolerant protocol for Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-state distribution in a quantum network. Physical review. A. 111(2). 3 indexed citations

Elkouss, David, et al.. (2025). Modular architectures and entanglement schemes for error-corrected distributed quantum computation. npj Quantum Information. 12(1).

Goodenough, Kenneth, et al.. (2025). Bayesian Optimization for Repeater Protocols. 135–142. 1 indexed citations

Elkouss, David, et al.. (2023). LIMDD: A Decision Diagram for Simulation of Quantum Computing Including Stabilizer States. Quantum. 7. 1108–1108. 6 indexed citations

Azuma, Koji, Sophia E. Economou, David Elkouss, et al.. (2023). Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet. Reviews of Modern Physics. 95(4). 220 indexed citations breakdown →

Bradley, C. E., Simon Baier, Maarten Degen, et al.. (2022). Robust quantum-network memory based on spin qubits in isotopically engineered diamond. npj Quantum Information. 8(1). 41 indexed citations

Goodenough, Kenneth, et al.. (2020). Protocols for creating and distilling multipartite GHZ states with Bell pairs. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. 30 indexed citations

Tomamichel, Marco, Jesús Martínez-Mateo, Christoph Pacher, & David Elkouss. (2017). Fundamental finite key limits for one-way information reconciliation in quantum key distribution. Quantum Information Processing. 16(11). 21 indexed citations

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Hensen, Bas, Norbert Kalb, Machiel Blok, et al.. (2016). Loophole-free Bell test using electron spins in diamond: second experiment and additional analysis. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 30289–30289. 60 indexed citations

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Elkouss, David & Sergii Strelchuk. (2015). Superadditivity of Private Information for Any Number of Uses of the Channel. Physical Review Letters. 115(4). 40501–40501. 12 indexed citations

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Cubitt, Toby S., David Elkouss, William Matthews, et al.. (2015). Unbounded number of channel uses may be required to detect quantum capacity. Nature Communications. 6(1). 6739–6739. 52 indexed citations

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Hensen, Bas, Hannes Bernien, A. Dréau, et al.. (2015). Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres. Nature. 526(7575). 682–686. 1481 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jouguet, Paul, David Elkouss, & Sébastien Kunz-Jacques. (2014). High-bit-rate continuous-variable quantum key distribution. Physical Review A. 90(4). 46 indexed citations

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Martínez-Mateo, Jesús, David Elkouss, & Vicente Martín. (2013). Key Reconciliation for High Performance Quantum Key Distribution. Scientific Reports. 3(1). 1576–1576. 41 indexed citations

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Elkouss, David, Jesús Martínez-Mateo, & Vicente Martín. (2013). Analysis of a rate-adaptive reconciliation protocol and the effect of leakage on the secret key rate. Physical Review A. 87(4). 6 indexed citations

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Elkouss, David, et al.. (2013). Secure Optical Networks Based on Quantum Key Distribution and Weakly Trusted Repeaters. Journal of Optical Communications and Networking. 5(4). 316–316. 32 indexed citations

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Elkouss, David, et al.. (2010). EFFICIENT RECONCILIATION WITH RATE ADAPTIVE CODES IN QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION. PeerJ. 7. e7062–e7062. 1 indexed citations

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Martínez-Mateo, Jesús, David Elkouss, & Vicente Martín. (2010). Improved Construction of Irregular Progressive Edge-Growth Tanner Graphs. IEEE Communications Letters. 14(12). 1155–1157. 13 indexed citations

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Martínez-Ortega, José-Fernán, et al.. (2010). QKD in Standard Optical Telecommunications Networks. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations

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