Hualei Sun

2.2k total citations · 5 hit papers
33 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Hualei Sun is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Hualei Sun has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 25 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 7 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Hualei Sun's work include Iron-based superconductors research (18 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (17 papers) and Rare-earth and actinide compounds (15 papers). Hualei Sun is often cited by papers focused on Iron-based superconductors research (18 papers), Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials (17 papers) and Rare-earth and actinide compounds (15 papers). Hualei Sun collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Czechia. Hualei Sun's co-authors include Meng Wang, Mengwu Huo, Dao‐Xin Yao, Zengjia Liu, Yifeng Han, Xunwu Hu, Jing Li, Bosen Wang, Pengtao Yang and Lingyun Tang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hualei Sun

30 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure

2023 370 citations Hualei Sun, Mengwu Huo et al. Nature profile →
High-temperature superconductivity with zero resistance and strange-metal behaviour in La3Ni2O7−δ

2024 138 citations Hualei Sun, Mengwu Huo et al. profile →
Visualization of oxygen vacancies and self-doped ligand holes in La3Ni2O7−δ

2024 133 citations Mengwu Huo, Jingyuan Li et al. Nature profile →
Electronic and magnetic excitations in La3Ni2O7

2024 73 citations Xiaoyang Chen, Zhicheng Jiang et al. Nature Communications profile →
Investigations of key issues on the reproducibility of high-T c superconductivity emerging from compressed La3Ni2O7

2025 34 citations Jing Guo, Shu Cai et al. Matter and Radiation at Extremes profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hualei Sun China	13	971	840	494	77	62	33	1.2k
Benjamin A. Frandsen United States	18	608 0.6×	487 0.6×	366 0.7×	82 1.1×	61 1.0×	61	841
Z. V. Pchelkina Russia	18	905 0.9×	854 1.0×	338 0.7×	146 1.9×	93 1.5×	59	1.2k
A. K. Pramanik India	18	1.2k 1.3×	1.0k 1.2×	572 1.2×	115 1.5×	53 0.9×	68	1.4k
Hirotaka Okabe Japan	18	604 0.6×	616 0.7×	254 0.5×	105 1.4×	98 1.6×	76	933
Keith M. Taddei United States	18	672 0.7×	520 0.6×	285 0.6×	112 1.5×	86 1.4×	61	963
Jie Xing United States	17	772 0.8×	773 0.9×	268 0.5×	196 2.5×	45 0.7×	57	1.1k
N. Qureshi France	17	650 0.7×	601 0.7×	235 0.5×	124 1.6×	49 0.8×	77	893
Miao Gao China	18	500 0.5×	606 0.7×	564 1.1×	127 1.6×	102 1.6×	49	1.1k
Zheng Deng China	21	1.1k 1.2×	780 0.9×	698 1.4×	130 1.7×	172 2.8×	86	1.5k
Sahana Rößler Germany	19	884 0.9×	818 1.0×	370 0.7×	228 3.0×	44 0.7×	46	1.1k

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Huang, Xing, Mengwu Huo, Hualei Sun, et al.. (2025). Ground state and magnetic transitions of the orthorhombic antiferromagnet CaCo2TeO6. Physical review. B.. 111(9).

Sun, Hualei, et al.. (2025). CRISPR/Cas Technology in Insect Insecticide Resistance. Insects. 16(4). 345–345. 5 indexed citations

Chen, Yuzhi, Yulong Wang, Hualei Sun, et al.. (2025). Revealing superconducting gap in La3Ni2O7-δ by Andreev reflection spectroscopy under high pressure. Nature Communications. 16(1). 10838–10838.

Guo, Jing, Shu Cai, Hualei Sun, et al.. (2025). Investigations of key issues on the reproducibility of high-T c superconductivity emerging from compressed La3Ni2O7. Matter and Radiation at Extremes. 10(2). 34 indexed citations breakdown →

Li, Jingyuan, Yifeng Han, Mengwu Huo, et al.. (2024). Structural transition, electric transport, and electronic structures in the compressed trilayer nickelate La4Ni3O10. Science China Physics Mechanics and Astronomy. 67(11). 36 indexed citations

Sun, Hualei, Sasa Zhang, Jianlin Luo, et al.. (2024). Density-wave-like gap evolution in La3Ni2O7 under high pressure revealed by ultrafast optical spectroscopy. Nature Communications. 15(1). 10408–10408. 20 indexed citations

Huo, Mengwu, Jingyuan Li, Pengcheng Li, et al.. (2024). Visualization of oxygen vacancies and self-doped ligand holes in La3Ni2O7−δ. Nature. 630(8018). 847–852. 133 indexed citations breakdown →

Chen, Xiaoyang, Zhicheng Jiang, Jiong Mei, et al.. (2024). Electronic and magnetic excitations in La3Ni2O7. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9597–9597. 73 indexed citations breakdown →

Han, Yifeng, Yunbo Ou, Hualei Sun, et al.. (2024). Thermodynamic properties and enhancement of diamagnetism in nitrogen doped lutetium hydride synthesized at high pressure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(12). e2321540121–e2321540121. 2 indexed citations

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Sun, Hualei, Liang Qiu, Yifeng Han, et al.. (2023). Exchange field enhanced upper critical field of the superconductivity in compressed antiferromagnetic EuTe2. Communications Physics. 6(1). 3 indexed citations

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Sun, Hualei, Liang Qiu, Yifeng Han, et al.. (2023). Coexistence of zigzag antiferromagnetic order and superconductivity in compressed NiPSe3. Materials Today Physics. 36. 101188–101188. 10 indexed citations

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Sun, Hualei, Mengwu Huo, Xunwu Hu, et al.. (2023). Signatures of superconductivity near 80 K in a nickelate under high pressure. Nature. 621(7979). 493–498. 370 indexed citations breakdown →

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Han, Yifeng, Hualei Sun, Shuang Zhao, et al.. (2023). Signature of Topological semimetal in harmonic-honeycomb ReO3. Materials Today Physics. 40. 101309–101309. 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Hui, Xunwu Hu, Hanjie Guo, et al.. (2022). Single-crystal growth and superconductivity in RbNi2Se2. Physical review. B.. 106(9). 1 indexed citations

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Cheng, Benyuan, Yunwei Zhang, Long Jiang, et al.. (2022). Crystal and electronic structure of a quasi-two-dimensional semiconductor Mg₃Si₂Te₆. Chinese Physics B. 32(3). 37802–37802. 3 indexed citations

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Yu, Jia, Meng Wang, Benjamin A. Frandsen, et al.. (2020). Structural, magnetic, and electronic evolution of the spin-ladder system BaFe2S3−xSex with isoelectronic substitution. Physical review. B.. 101(23). 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Hualei, Wei Xia, Changwei Wu, et al.. (2020). Pressure-induced superconductivity and structural transition in ferromagnetic CrSiTe3. Physical review. B.. 102(14). 45 indexed citations

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Topping, Craig V., Franziska K. K. Kirschner, Stephen J. Blundell, et al.. (2017). Coexistence of magnetism and superconductivity in separate layers of the iron-based superconductor Li1−xFex(OH)Fe1−ySe. Physical review. B.. 95(13). 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Hualei, Daniel N. Woodruff, Simon J. Cassidy, et al.. (2014). Controlling parameters for superconductivity in layered lithium iron hydroxide selenides. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Ai, Lei, et al.. (2006). InGaP/InGaAs/GaAs DHBT structural materials grown by GSMBE. Rare Metals. 25(6). 20–23. 2 indexed citations

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