Davide Rusca

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 754 citations indexed

About

Davide Rusca is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Rusca has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 754 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Davide Rusca's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (11 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (9 papers). Davide Rusca is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (11 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (9 papers). Davide Rusca collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Spain and Italy. Davide Rusca's co-authors include Hugo Zbinden, Alberto Boaron, Anthony Martin, Matthieu Perrenoud, Félix Bussières, Gianluca Boso, Gaëtan Gras, Misael Caloz, Ming-Jun Li and Daniel A. Nolan and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Photonics and Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

In The Last Decade

Davide Rusca

16 papers receiving 721 citations

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Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber

2018 455 citations Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Rusca Switzerland	10	658	567	175	33	26	17	754
Alberto Boaron Switzerland	8	602 0.9×	516 0.9×	163 0.9×	30 0.9×	26 1.0×	9	681
Sebastian Nauerth Germany	9	585 0.9×	545 1.0×	134 0.8×	17 0.5×	31 1.2×	11	700
Luo-Kan Chen China	12	970 1.5×	924 1.6×	148 0.8×	25 0.8×	15 0.6×	20	1.1k
Kejin Wei China	18	1.0k 1.5×	833 1.5×	166 0.9×	51 1.5×	20 0.8×	60	1.1k
Mingqi Huang China	4	682 1.0×	640 1.1×	118 0.7×	20 0.6×	29 1.1×	9	754
Yury Kurochkin Russia	12	411 0.6×	353 0.6×	71 0.4×	14 0.4×	24 0.9×	52	504
Yu-Huai Li China	12	630 1.0×	595 1.0×	181 1.0×	25 0.8×	15 0.6×	25	768
Leonhard Neuhaus France	4	474 0.7×	340 0.6×	197 1.1×	45 1.4×	16 0.6×	5	628
Zhen‐Qiang Yin China	19	968 1.5×	885 1.6×	200 1.1×	41 1.2×	24 0.9×	66	1.1k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Rusca, Davide, et al.. (2025). Characterising higher-order phase correlations in gain-switched laser sources with application to quantum key distribution. EPJ Quantum Technology. 12(1). 1 indexed citations

Mizutani, Akihiro, et al.. (2024). Quantum key distribution with unbounded pulse correlations. Quantum Science and Technology. 10(1). 15001–15001. 5 indexed citations

Rocha, Rui M., et al.. (2024). Optical payload design for downlink quantum key distribution and keyless communication using CubeSats. EPJ Quantum Technology. 11(1). 3 indexed citations

Boaron, Alberto, Giovanni V. Resta, Matthieu Perrenoud, et al.. (2023). Fast single-photon detectors and real-time key distillation enable high secret-key-rate quantum key distribution systems. Nature Photonics. 17(5). 422–426. 80 indexed citations

Boaron, Alberto, Gianluca Boso, Andrea Crespi, et al.. (2023). High-speed integrated QKD system. Photonics Research. 11(6). 1007–1007. 37 indexed citations

Ioannou, Marie, Davide Rusca, Alberto Boaron, et al.. (2022). Receiver-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution. Quantum. 6. 718–718. 9 indexed citations

Vázquez‐Castro, M. A., Davide Rusca, & Hugo Zbinden. (2021). Quantum Keyless Private Communication Versus Quantum Key Distribution for Space Links. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 13 indexed citations

Gras, Gaëtan, Davide Rusca, Hugo Zbinden, & Félix Bussières. (2021). Countermeasure Against Quantum Hacking Using Detection Statistics. Physical Review Applied. 15(3). 5 indexed citations

Boaron, Alberto, et al.. (2020). Performance and security of 5 GHz repetition rate polarization-based quantum key distribution. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 45 indexed citations

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Rusca, Davide, Stefano Azzini, Giorgio Fontana, et al.. (2020). An optical chip for self-testing quantum random number generation. APL Photonics. 5(10). 11 indexed citations

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Boaron, Alberto, Davide Rusca, Gianluca Boso, et al.. (2020). Progress on Quantum Key Distribution Using Ultralow Loss Fiber. M4A.5–M4A.5. 3 indexed citations

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Rusca, Davide, Anthony Martin, Jonatan Bohr Brask, et al.. (2019). Quantum random number generation with partially characterized devices based on bounded energy. S1B.3–S1B.3.

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Rusca, Davide, Anthony Martin, Jonatan Bohr Brask, et al.. (2019). Self-testing quantum random-number generator based on an energy bound. Physical review. A. 100(6). 31 indexed citations

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Boaron, Alberto, Gianluca Boso, Davide Rusca, et al.. (2018). Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber. Physical Review Letters. 121(19). 190502–190502. 455 indexed citations breakdown →

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Rusca, Davide, S. Cialdi, Andrea Crespi, et al.. (2018). Detection of squeezed light with glass-integrated technology embedded into a homodyne detector setup. Journal of the Optical Society of America B. 35(7). 1596–1596. 10 indexed citations

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Rusca, Davide, Alberto Boaron, Marcos Curty, Anthony Martin, & Hugo Zbinden. (2018). Security proof for a simplified Bennett-Brassard 1984 quantum-key-distribution protocol. Physical review. A. 98(5). 34 indexed citations

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Crespi, Andrea, Marco Bentivegna, Davide Rusca, et al.. (2017). Single-Photon Quantum Contextuality on a Chip. ACS Photonics. 4(11). 2807–2812. 12 indexed citations

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