Kai Sun

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
298 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Kai Sun is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Materials Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Sun has authored 298 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 108 papers in Materials Chemistry and 84 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Kai Sun's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (70 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (48 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (39 papers). Kai Sun is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (70 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (48 papers) and Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (39 papers). Kai Sun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Hong Kong. Kai Sun's co-authors include S. Das Sarma, Victor Galitski, Eduardo Fradkin, Maxim Dzero, Piers Coleman, Xiaoming Mao, Zheng‐Cheng Gu, Hosho Katsura, Ronald K. Hanson and Jay B. Jeffries and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Kai Sun

290 papers receiving 10.8k 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.

Nearly Flatbands with Nontrivial Topology

2011 660 citations Kai Sun et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Topological Kondo Insulators

2010 594 citations Kai Sun et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Fractional quantum Hall effect in the absence of Landau levels

2011 462 citations Kai Sun et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Kai Sun

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Citations

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Sun

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kai Sun. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kai Sun based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kai Sun. Kai Sun is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Electric-field-induced domain walls in wurtzite ferroelectrics 2025 ·Nature ·Ding Wang, Danhao Wang, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jiangnan Liu, Mingtao Hu, Yuanpeng Wu, Tao Ma, Kai Sun, (unknown), Emmanouil Kioupakis, Zetian Mi	7
2	Magnetochiral charge pumping due to charge trapping and skin effect in chirality-induced spin selectivity 2025 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), Kai Zhang, Jiewen Xiao, Kai Sun, Binghai Yan	10
3	High-temperature surface state in Kondo insulator U ₃ Bi ₄ Ni ₃ 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Hengxin Tan, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Yuchen Wu, (unknown), Yun Suk Eo, Jieyi Liu, Yulin Chen, Binghai Yan, Kai Sun, Sheng Ran	0
4	A centroid contrastive multi-source domain adaptation method for fault diagnosis with category shift 2025 ·Measurement ·Yufeng Li, (unknown), (unknown), Kai Sun, Min Han	2
5	Extraction of suction anchors in sand with overpressure - Experimental study and numerical analysis 2024 ·Ocean Engineering ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Kai Sun	1
6	Endotaxial stabilization of 2D charge density waves with long-range order 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Suk Hyun Sung, (unknown), Ismail El Baggari, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Tony Chiang, Yu Liu, W. J. Lu, Yuping Sun, Lena F. Kourkoutis, John T. Heron, Kai Sun, Robert Hovden	4
7	Breakdown of conventional winding number calculation in one-dimensional lattices with interactions beyond nearest neighbors 2023 ·Communications Physics ·(unknown), (unknown), Kai Sun, (unknown)	13
8	Soft Mechanical Metamaterials with Transformable Topology Protected by Stress Caching 2023 ·Advanced Science ·(unknown), Binjie Jin, Lishuai Jin, Young‐Joo Lee, Tao Xie, Stefano Gonella, Kai Sun, Xiaoming Mao, Shu Yang	19
9	Verwey transition as evolution from electronic nematicity to trimerons via electron-phonon coupling 2023 ·Science Advances ·Wei Wang, (unknown), Zhixiu Liang, Lijun Wu, P. M. Lozano, A. C. Komarek, Xiaozhe Shen, Alexander H. Reid, Xijie Wang, Qiang Li, Wei‐Guo Yin, Kai Sun, Ian Robinson, Yimei Zhu, M. P. M. Dean, Jing Tao	5
10	Direct Imaging of “Patch-Clasping” and Relaxation in Robust and Flexible Nanoparticle Assemblies 2023 ·ACS Nano ·Ahyoung Kim, (unknown), Qian Chang, Lehan Yao, Kai Sun, Zi Chen, Thi Vo, Qian Chen	14
11	Evidence of non-collinear spin texture in magnetic moiré superlattices 2023 ·Nature Physics ·Hongchao Xie, Xiangpeng Luo, Zhipeng Ye, (unknown), Gaihua Ye, Suk Hyun Sung, Haiwen Ge, Shaohua Yan, Fu Yang, Shangjie Tian, Hechang Lei, Kai Sun, Robert Hovden, Rui He, Liuyan Zhao	55
12	Two-dimensional charge order stabilized in clean polytype heterostructures 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Suk Hyun Sung, (unknown), (unknown), Ismail El Baggari, Xiangpeng Luo, Jiseok Gim, Nguyen M. Vu, Zidong Li, Todd Brintlinger, Yu Liu, W. J. Lu, Yuping Sun, Parag B. Deotare, Kai Sun, Liuyan Zhao, Lena F. Kourkoutis, John T. Heron, Robert Hovden	21
13	Chiral assemblies of pinwheel superlattices on substrates 2022 ·Nature ·Shan Zhou, Jiahui Li, Jun Lu, Haihua Liu, Ji‐Young Kim, Ahyoung Kim, Lehan Yao, Chang Liu, Qian Chang, Zachary D. Hood, Xiaoying Lin, Wenxiang Chen, Thomas E. Gage, Ilke Arslan, Alex Travesset, Kai Sun, Nicholas A. Kotov, Qian Chen	81
14	Nematic Quantum Criticality in Dirac Systems 2022 ·Physical Review Letters ·(unknown), Lukas Janssen, Kai Sun, Zi Yang Meng, Igor F. Herbut, Matthias Vojta, Fakher F. Assaad	12
15	Tunable layered-magnetism–assisted magneto-Raman effect in a two-dimensional magnet CrI ₃ 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Wencan Jin, Zhipeng Ye, Xiangpeng Luo, Bowen Yang, Gaihua Ye, (unknown), Hyun Ho Kim, (unknown), Shangjie Tian, Fu Yang, Shaohua Yan, Hechang Lei, Kai Sun, Adam W. Tsen, Rui He, Liuyan Zhao	25
16	Robust edge photocurrent response on layered type II Weyl semimetal WTe2 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Qinsheng Wang, Jingchuan Zheng, Yuan He, Jin Cao, Xin Liu, Maoyuan Wang, Junchao Ma, Jiawei Lai, Hong Lu, Shuang Jia, Dayu Yan, Youguo Shi, Junxi Duan, Junfeng Han, Wende Xiao, Jianhao Chen, Kai Sun, Yugui Yao, Dong Sun	96
17	Evolution of interlayer and intralayer magnetism in three atomically thin chromium trihalides 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Hyun Ho Kim, Bowen Yang, Siwen Li, Shengwei Jiang, Chenhao Jin, Zui Tao, George Nichols, F. Sfigakis, Shazhou Zhong, Chenghe Li, Shangjie Tian, David G. Cory, Guo‐Xing Miao, Jie Shan, Kin Fai Mak, Hechang Lei, Kai Sun, Liuyan Zhao, Adam W. Tsen	246
18	Hidden CDW states and insulator-to-metal transition after a pulsed femtosecond laser excitation in layered chalcogenide 1T-TaS _{2− _x} Se _{_x} 2018 ·Science Advances ·Kai Sun, S. S. Sun, Chunhui Zhu, Huanfang Tian, Huaixin Yang, Jianqi Li	39
19	Raman fingerprint of two terahertz spin wave branches in a two-dimensional honeycomb Ising ferromagnet 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Wencan Jin, Hyun Ho Kim, Zhipeng Ye, Siwen Li, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bowen Yang, Chenghe Li, Shangjie Tian, Kai Sun, Hechang Lei, Adam W. Tsen, Liuyan Zhao, Rui He	106
20	Discovery of the First Topological Kondo Insulator: Samarium Hexaboride 2012 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Steven Wolgast, Çağlıyan Kurdak, Kai Sun, J. W. Allen, Dae-Jeong Kim, Z. Fisk	3

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