Ken Xuan Wei

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ken Xuan Wei is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken Xuan Wei has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ken Xuan Wei's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (7 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (6 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (5 papers). Ken Xuan Wei is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (7 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (6 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (5 papers). Ken Xuan Wei collaborates with scholars based in United States, Argentina and China. Ken Xuan Wei's co-authors include Paola Cappellaro, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, Abhinav Kandala, Young‐Seok Kim, Sami Rosenblatt, Kristan Temme, Michael P. Zaletel, E. van den Berg, Andrew Eddins and Sajant Anand and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

In The Last Decade

Ken Xuan Wei

11 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance

2023 545 citations Young‐Seok Kim, Andrew Eddins et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Ken Xuan Wei	791	790	143	87	84	12	1.1k
Michael Lubasch	546 0.7×	597 0.8×	153 1.1×	68 0.8×	138 1.6×	24	890
Vinay Ramasesh	724 0.9×	847 1.1×	78 0.5×	57 0.7×	108 1.3×	12	1.1k
Caroline Figgatt	1.3k 1.7×	1.2k 1.6×	123 0.9×	172 2.0×	62 0.7×	18	1.7k
Zoltán Zimborás	444 0.6×	526 0.7×	121 0.8×	65 0.7×	104 1.2×	50	718
K. A. Landsman	1.5k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	136 1.0×	195 2.2×	50 0.6×	19	1.8k
Toby S. Cubitt	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.4×	268 1.9×	119 1.4×	79 0.9×	39	1.4k
Michael J. Kastoryano	768 1.0×	813 1.0×	211 1.5×	70 0.8×	46 0.5×	24	1.1k
Christian Kokail	689 0.9×	713 0.9×	87 0.6×	38 0.4×	60 0.7×	15	978
Tim Menke	967 1.2×	734 0.9×	56 0.4×	161 1.9×	67 0.8×	11	1.3k

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12 of 12 papers shown

Wei, Ken Xuan, et al.. (2025). Experimental and numerical evaluation of cold plates devised by turing-substantialized topology optimization. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. 256. 128096–128096.

Wei, Ken Xuan, et al.. (2024). Native Two-Qubit Gates in Fixed-Coupling, Fixed-Frequency Transmons Beyond Cross-Resonance Interaction. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 11 indexed citations

Wei, Ken Xuan, Emily Pritchett, D. M. Zajac, David McKay, & Seth Merkel. (2024). Characterizing non-Markovian off-resonant errors in quantum gates. Physical Review Applied. 21(2). 9 indexed citations

Kim, Young‐Seok, Andrew Eddins, Sajant Anand, et al.. (2023). Evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance. Nature. 618(7965). 500–505. 545 indexed citations breakdown →

Kollias, George, et al.. (2023). Fast Quantum State Reconstruction via Accelerated Non-Convex Programming. Photonics. 10(2). 116–116. 4 indexed citations

Wei, Ken Xuan, Easwar Magesan, Isaac Lauer, et al.. (2022). Hamiltonian Engineering with Multicolor Drives for Fast Entangling Gates and Quantum Crosstalk Cancellation. Physical Review Letters. 129(6). 60501–60501. 50 indexed citations

Kandala, Abhinav, Ken Xuan Wei, Srikanth Srinivasan, et al.. (2021). Demonstration of a High-Fidelity cnot Gate for Fixed-Frequency Transmons with Engineered ZZ Suppression. Physical Review Letters. 127(13). 130501–130501. 104 indexed citations

Wei, Ken Xuan, Isaac Lauer, Srikanth Srinivasan, et al.. (2020). Verifying multipartite entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states via multiple quantum coherences. Physical review. A. 101(3). 88 indexed citations

Chattah, Ana K., et al.. (2020). Perturbation Independent Decay of the Loschmidt Echo in a Many-Body System. Physical Review Letters. 124(3). 30601–30601. 43 indexed citations

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Wei, Ken Xuan, Pai Peng, Oles Shtanko, et al.. (2019). Emergent Prethermalization Signatures in Out-of-Time Ordered Correlations. Physical Review Letters. 123(9). 90605–90605. 48 indexed citations

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Peng, Pai, et al.. (2019). Comparing many-body localization lengths via nonperturbative construction of local integrals of motion. Physical review. B.. 100(21). 14 indexed citations

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Wei, Ken Xuan, Chandrasekhar Ramanathan, & Paola Cappellaro. (2018). Exploring Localization in Nuclear Spin Chains. Physical Review Letters. 120(7). 70501–70501. 180 indexed citations

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