Lam Hui

16.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
103 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Lam Hui is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lam Hui has authored 103 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 56 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 12 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Lam Hui's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (70 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (35 papers). Lam Hui is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (70 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (55 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (35 papers). Lam Hui collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Canada. Lam Hui's co-authors include Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Scott Tremaine, Edward Witten, Alberto Nicolis, E. Gaztañaga, Anna Cabré, Zoltán Haiman, Román Scoccimarro, Matías Zaldarriaga and Justin Khoury and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lam Hui

103 papers receiving 6.3k 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.

Ultralight scalars as cosmological dark matter

2017 1.1k citations Lam Hui, Jeremiah P. Ostriker et al. Physical review. D profile →
Clustering of luminous red galaxies - IV. Baryon acoustic peak in the line-of-sight direction and a direct measurement ofH(z)

2009 421 citations Lam Hui et al. profile →
Wave Dark Matter

2021 242 citations Lam Hui Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →
Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns

2023 118 citations Keefe Mitman, Macarena Lagos et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lam Hui United States	43	6.0k	4.0k	579	567	439	103	6.4k
Scott Dodelson United States	40	5.2k 0.9×	4.1k 1.0×	467 0.8×	343 0.6×	305 0.7×	133	6.1k
J. Frieman United States	37	6.3k 1.0×	4.2k 1.1×	833 1.4×	448 0.8×	390 0.9×	106	6.9k
Lawrence M. Widrow Canada	32	4.8k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	891 1.5×	334 0.6×	333 0.8×	96	5.5k
Dragan Huterer United States	40	6.8k 1.1×	3.4k 0.9×	821 1.4×	466 0.8×	238 0.5×	104	7.0k
Ue‐Li Pen Canada	44	6.2k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	807 1.4×	343 0.6×	331 0.8×	193	6.5k
Bhuvnesh Jain United States	38	6.0k 1.0×	2.5k 0.6×	1.2k 2.0×	384 0.7×	475 1.1×	104	6.2k
A. Challinor United Kingdom	30	6.2k 1.0×	3.1k 0.8×	657 1.1×	326 0.6×	161 0.4×	71	6.4k
Matteo Viel Italy	48	7.4k 1.2×	5.1k 1.3×	1.0k 1.8×	380 0.7×	241 0.5×	167	8.3k
D. Larson United States	14	5.1k 0.9×	3.3k 0.8×	579 1.0×	390 0.7×	115 0.3×	16	5.4k
Patrick McDonald United States	41	4.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.6×	878 1.5×	723 1.3×	213 0.5×	93	5.3k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hui, Lam, et al.. (2025). Symmetries of vanishing nonlinear Love numbers of Schwarzschild black holes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 9 indexed citations

Philcox, Oliver H. E., et al.. (2024). Intermediate mass-range particles from small scales: Nonperturbative techniques for cosmological collider physics from large-scale structure surveys. Physical review. D. 110(8). 6 indexed citations

Hui, Lam, et al.. (2024). S-matrix positivity without Lorentz invariance: a case study. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(4). 9 indexed citations

Philcox, Oliver H. E., et al.. (2024). Consistently constraining fNL with the squeezed lensing bispectrum using consistency relations. Physical review. D. 109(4). 3 indexed citations

Hui, Lam, et al.. (2023). Soft theorems for boosts and other time symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 9 indexed citations

Vicente, Rodrigo, Katy Clough, Thomas Helfer, et al.. (2023). Relativistic drag forces on black holes from scalar dark matter clouds of all sizes. Physical review. D. 108(12). 30 indexed citations

Mitman, Keefe, Macarena Lagos, Leo C. Stein, et al.. (2023). Nonlinearities in Black Hole Ringdowns. Physical Review Letters. 130(8). 81402–81402. 118 indexed citations breakdown →

Esposito, Angelo, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Lam Hui, et al.. (2022). Squeezing fNL out of the matter bispectrum with consistency relations. Physical review. D. 106(12). 15 indexed citations

Hui, Lam. (2021). Wave Dark Matter. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 59(1). 247–289. 242 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hui, Lam, Austin Joyce, & Sam S. C. Wong. (2019). Inflationary soft theorems revisited: a generalized consistency relation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2019(2). 60–60. 27 indexed citations

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Hui, Lam, et al.. (2017). 宇宙論的暗黒物質としての超軽量スカラー | 文献情報 | J-GLOBAL 科学技術総合リンクセンター. Physical Review D. 95. 1–43541. 1 indexed citations

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Hui, Lam, Jeremiah P. Ostriker, Scott Tremaine, & Edward Witten. (2016). On the hypothesis that cosmological dark matter is composed of ultra-light bosons. arXiv (Cornell University). 16 indexed citations

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Liu, Jia, Andrea Petri, Zoltán Haiman, et al.. (2015). Cosmology constraints from the weak lensing peak counts and the power spectrum in CFHTLenS data. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 91(6). 108 indexed citations

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Scoccimarro, Román, Lam Hui, Marc Manera, & Kwan Chuen Chan. (2012). Large-scale bias and efficient generation of initial conditions for nonlocal primordial non-Gaussianity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 85(8). 122 indexed citations

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Wang, Junpu, Lam Hui, & Justin Khoury. (2012). No-Go Theorems for Generalized Chameleon Field Theories. Physical Review Letters. 109(24). 241301–241301. 96 indexed citations

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Fang, Wenjuan, Lam Hui, Brice Ménard, M. May, & Ryan Scranton. (2011). Anisotropic extinction distortion of the galaxy correlation function. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(6). 10 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Fabian, et al.. (2009). Size Bias in Galaxy Surveys. Physical Review Letters. 103(5). 51301–51301. 33 indexed citations

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Hui, Lam & William H. Kinney. (2002). Short distance physics and the consistency relation for scalar and tensor fluctuations in the inflationary universe. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 65(10). 64 indexed citations

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Lidz, Adam, Lam Hui, Matías Zaldarriaga, & Román Scoccimarro. (2001). How Neutral is the Intergalactic Medium at z ∼ 6?. 24 indexed citations

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Seljak, Uroš & Lam Hui. (1996). Global Expansion in an Inhomogeneous Universe. ASPC. 88. 267. 5 indexed citations

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