Félix Bussières

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Félix Bussières is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Félix Bussières has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 40 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Félix Bussières's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (43 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (22 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (20 papers). Félix Bussières is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (43 papers), Quantum optics and atomic interactions (22 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (20 papers). Félix Bussières collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Canada and Germany. Félix Bussières's co-authors include Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Sangouard, Christoph Clausen, Wolfgang Tittel, Hugues de Riedmatten, Hugo Zbinden, Imam Usmani, W. Sohler and Joshua A. Slater and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Félix Bussières

49 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of... 2011 2026 2016 2021 2018 2011 2011 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber
    2018 455 citations Alberto Boaron, Gianluca Boso et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons
    2011 418 citations Erhan Sağlamyürek, Neil Sinclair et al. Nature profile →
  3. Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal
    2011 351 citations Christoph Clausen, Imam Usmani et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Félix Bussières Switzerland 22 2.2k 1.8k 593 121 108 49 2.6k
Xiao‐Song Ma China 19 1.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 357 0.6× 55 0.5× 57 0.5× 48 2.0k
Alexander Ling Singapore 20 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.6× 420 0.7× 57 0.5× 140 1.3× 70 1.6k
H. Weier Germany 12 1.9k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 368 0.6× 35 0.3× 104 1.0× 18 2.2k
W. Steven Kolthammer United Kingdom 20 1.3k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 648 1.1× 43 0.4× 55 0.5× 37 1.9k
Nai-Le Liu China 26 2.8k 1.2× 2.8k 1.5× 384 0.6× 55 0.5× 168 1.6× 78 3.3k
Brian J. Smith United Kingdom 28 2.9k 1.3× 2.6k 1.5× 1.2k 2.0× 74 0.6× 188 1.7× 82 3.8k
J. D. Franson United States 28 3.4k 1.5× 3.3k 1.8× 795 1.3× 47 0.4× 124 1.1× 125 4.0k
E. Knill United States 10 3.5k 1.5× 3.6k 2.0× 1.2k 2.1× 195 1.6× 192 1.8× 12 4.4k
Jonathan Lavoie Canada 17 986 0.4× 1.1k 0.6× 306 0.5× 64 0.5× 57 0.5× 51 1.6k
Nicolas Sangouard Switzerland 36 5.5k 2.4× 4.5k 2.5× 921 1.6× 176 1.5× 139 1.3× 102 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Félix Bussières

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Félix Bussières

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Gras, Gaëtan, et al.. (2024). Mo-Si superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on GaAs. Physical Review Applied. 22(1). 1 indexed citations
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Gras, Gaëtan, et al.. (2024). Cryogenic temperature 3D mapping via a distributed temperature sensor with centimeter resolution. Optics Express. 32(14). 24889–24889. 1 indexed citations
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Resta, Giovanni V., et al.. (2024). Enhanced Detection Rate and High Photon-Number Efficiencies with a Scalable Parallel SNSPD. ACS Photonics. 12(1). 320–329. 5 indexed citations
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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
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Resta, Giovanni V., Matthieu Perrenoud, Tiff Brydges, et al.. (2023). Gigahertz Detection Rates and Dynamic Photon-Number Resolution with Superconducting Nanowire Arrays. Nano Letters. 23(13). 6018–6026. 26 indexed citations
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Brydges, Tiff, et al.. (2023). High-efficiency photon-number-resolving detector for improving heralded single-photon sources. Quantum Science and Technology. 8(4). 45006–45006. 14 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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Tiranov, Alexey, Jonathan Lavoie, Nicolas Brunner, et al.. (2016). Temporal Multimode Storage of Entangled Photon Pairs. Physical Review Letters. 117(24). 240506–240506. 25 indexed citations
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Martin, Anthony, et al.. (2016). 24-Hour Relativistic Bit Commitment. Physical Review Letters. 117(14). 140506–140506. 13 indexed citations
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Guerreiro, Thiago, Fernando Sabino Marques Monteiro, Anthony Martin, et al.. (2016). Demonstration of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering Using Single-Photon Path Entanglement and Displacement-Based Detection. Physical Review Letters. 117(7). 70404–70404. 34 indexed citations
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Tiranov, Alexey, Jonathan Lavoie, Nicolas Sangouard, et al.. (2016). Demonstration of Light-Matter Micro-Macro Quantum Correlations. Physical Review Letters. 116(19). 190502–190502. 10 indexed citations
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Verma, Varun, Boris Korzh, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2015). High-efficiency superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors fabricated from MoSi thin-films. arXiv (Cornell University). 92 indexed citations
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Bussières, Félix, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, et al.. (2014). Quantum teleportation from a telecom-wavelength photon to a solid-state quantum memory. Nature Photonics. 8(10). 775–778. 189 indexed citations
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Lunghi, Tommaso, Jędrzej Kaniewski, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2013). Experimental Bit Commitment Based on Quantum Communication and Special Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 111(18). 180504–180504. 52 indexed citations
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Sağlamyürek, Erhan, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, et al.. (2012). Conditional Detection of Pure Quantum States of Light after Storage in a Tm-Doped Waveguide. Physical Review Letters. 108(8). 83602–83602. 36 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Félix Bussières, Mikael Afzelius, & Nicolas Gisin. (2012). Quantum Storage of Heralded Polarization Qubits in Birefringent and Anisotropically Absorbing Materials. Physical Review Letters. 108(19). 190503–190503. 66 indexed citations
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Clausen, Christoph, Imam Usmani, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2011). Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal. Nature. 469(7331). 508–511. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sağlamyürek, Erhan, Neil Sinclair, Jeongwan Jin, et al.. (2011). Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons. Nature. 469(7331). 512–515. 418 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brassard, Gilles, et al.. (2011). Experimental loss-tolerant quantum coin flipping. Nature Communications. 2(1). 561–561. 32 indexed citations
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Slater, Joshua A., Stéphane Virally, Félix Bussières, et al.. (2010). Microstructured fiber source of photon pairs at widely separated wavelengths. Optics Letters. 35(4). 499–499. 21 indexed citations

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