Feihu Xu

9.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
117 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Feihu Xu is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Feihu Xu has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 65 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 39 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Feihu Xu's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (68 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (43 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (41 papers). Feihu Xu is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (68 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (43 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (41 papers). Feihu Xu collaborates with scholars based in China, Canada and United States. Feihu Xu's co-authors include Hoi‐Kwong Lo, Jian-Wei Pan, Qiang Zhang, Xiongfeng Ma, Bing Qi, Marcos Curty, Charles Ci Wen Lim, He Xu, Zhiyuan Tang and Li Qian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Feihu Xu

110 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices

2020 924 citations Feihu Xu, Qiang Zhang et al. profile →
Finite-key analysis for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution

2014 288 citations Marcos Curty, Feihu Xu et al. Nature Communications profile →
An integrated silicon photonic chip platform for continuous-variable quantum key distribution

2019 240 citations Feihu Xu et al. profile →
High-rate quantum key distribution exceeding 110 Mb s–1

2023 152 citations Wei Li, Hao Tan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Feihu Xu China	35	4.0k	3.5k	822	751	383	117	5.2k
Franco N. C. Wong United States	39	2.7k 0.7×	3.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.8×	826 1.1×	433 1.1×	131	4.6k
G. Ribordy Switzerland	18	6.8k 1.7×	6.6k 1.9×	1.5k 1.8×	715 1.0×	272 0.7×	29	8.2k
Guihua Zeng China	38	4.3k 1.1×	3.8k 1.1×	697 0.8×	177 0.2×	280 0.7×	312	5.7k
J. F. Dynes United Kingdom	29	3.1k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	873 1.1×	221 0.3×	88 0.2×	70	4.0k
Hiroki Takesue Japan	39	3.8k 0.9×	3.3k 1.0×	2.6k 3.1×	398 0.5×	218 0.6×	150	5.5k
Cheng-Zhi Peng China	38	4.9k 1.2×	4.7k 1.4×	1.1k 1.3×	129 0.2×	281 0.7×	141	5.9k
Rob Thew Switzerland	27	2.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.7×	613 0.7×	302 0.4×	107 0.3×	64	2.9k
Mikio Fujiwara Japan	30	1.8k 0.5×	1.8k 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	262 0.3×	201 0.5×	166	2.8k
Norbert Lütkenhaus Canada	42	9.2k 2.3×	8.3k 2.4×	924 1.1×	131 0.2×	223 0.6×	141	9.8k
Hoi‐Kwong Lo Canada	44	12.3k 3.1×	11.1k 3.2×	1.4k 1.6×	141 0.2×	246 0.6×	139	13.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Feihu Xu

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Xu, Feihu. (2025). Photon-number-resolving detection enables single-photon LiDAR approaching the standard quantum limit. Light Science & Applications. 14(1). 206–206.

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Wu, Cheng, Yu-Ao Chen, Xiaopeng Shao, et al.. (2025). Active Optical Intensity Interferometry. Physical Review Letters. 134(18). 180201–180201. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Zheng-Ping, et al.. (2024). High-resolution 3D imaging through dense camouflage nets using single-photon LiDAR. 1(1). 11003–11003. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Chao, et al.. (2024). Miniaturized time-correlated single-photon counting module for time-of-flight non-line-of-sight imaging applications. Review of Scientific Instruments. 95(3). 1 indexed citations

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Ding, Rui, et al.. (2024). Curvature Regularization for Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging From Under-Sampled Data. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 46(12). 8474–8485. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Feihu, Gerald S. Buller, Martin Laurenzis, et al.. (2024). Editorial Single-Photon Technologies and Applications. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. 30(1: Single-Photon Technologies). 1–3. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haoran, Wei Li, Ruihua He, et al.. (2024). Noise-reducing quantum key distribution. Reports on Progress in Physics. 88(1). 16001–16001. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Zheng-Ping, et al.. (2024). Large-FoV 3D imaging of single-photon LiDAR at up to 12 km. Optics Letters. 49(23). 6621–6621. 1 indexed citations

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Xu, Feihu, et al.. (2023). Multi‐scale Iterative Model‐guided Unfolding Network for NLOS Reconstruction. Computer Graphics Forum. 42(7). 2 indexed citations

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Li, Zheng-Ping, Hong Yu, Xin Huang, et al.. (2023). Long range 3D imaging through atmospheric obscurants using array-based single-photon LiDAR. Optics Express. 31(10). 16054–16054. 29 indexed citations

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Li, Yuxiao, et al.. (2023). Image-free target identification using a single-point single-photon LiDAR. Optics Express. 31(19). 30390–30390. 10 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Li‐Kang Zhang, Yichen Lu, et al.. (2023). Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution without Phase Locking. Physical Review Letters. 130(25). 250802–250802. 36 indexed citations

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Wang, Bingjian, et al.. (2022). Lensless imaging through thin scattering layers under broadband illumination. Photonics Research. 10(11). 2471–2471. 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yijun, et al.. (2022). Photon-Efficient Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging. 8. 639–650. 21 indexed citations

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Zhao, Si-Ran, Yuzhe Zhang, Wen‐Zhao Liu, et al.. (2021). Field Demonstration of Distributed Quantum Sensing without Post-Selection. Physical Review X. 11(3). 36 indexed citations

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Li, Wei, Víctor Zapatero, Hao Tan, et al.. (2021). Experimental Quantum Key Distribution Secure Against Malicious Devices. Physical Review Applied. 15(3). 12 indexed citations

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Zhang, Anke, Yue Deng, Feihu Xu, et al.. (2021). Dynamic non-line-of-sight imaging system based on the optimization of point spread functions. Optics Express. 29(20). 32349–32349. 46 indexed citations

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Xu, Feihu, Ji‐Gang Ren, Juan Yin, et al.. (2019). Spaceborne, low-noise, single-photon detection for satellite-based quantum communications. Optics Express. 27(25). 36114–36114. 20 indexed citations

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Lu, He, Rui Zhang, Li Li, et al.. (2019). Experimental quantum network coding. npj Quantum Information. 5(1). 32 indexed citations

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Shin, Dongeek, Feihu Xu, Dheera Venkatraman, et al.. (2016). Photon-efficient imaging with a single-photon camera. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12046–12046. 208 indexed citations

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