Mehul Malik

4.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
63 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Mehul Malik is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Mehul Malik has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 46 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Mehul Malik's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (26 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (24 papers). Mehul Malik is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers), Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (26 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (24 papers). Mehul Malik collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Austria. Mehul Malik's co-authors include Robert W. Boyd, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Anton Zeilinger, Mario Krenn, Robert Fickler, Brandon Rodenburg, Zhimin Shi, Justin Dressel, Andrew N. Jordan and Filippo M. Miatto and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Mehul Malik

58 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Colloquium: Understanding quantum weak values: Basics and applications

2014 439 citations Mehul Malik, Robert W. Boyd et al. profile →
Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light

2013 347 citations Mohammad Mirhosseini, Mehul Malik et al. Nature Communications profile →
Twisted light transmission over 143 km

2016 290 citations Mario Krenn, Johannes Handsteiner et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Multi-photon entanglement in high dimensions

2016 246 citations Mehul Malik, Marcus Huber et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Automated Search for new Quantum Experiments

2016 153 citations Mario Krenn, Mehul Malik et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
High-Dimensional Single-Photon Quantum Gates: Concepts and Experiments

2017 152 citations Mehul Malik, Mario Krenn 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
Mehul Malik United States	23	2.7k	1.6k	763	732	253	63	3.2k
Mohammad Mirhosseini United States	30	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	941 1.2×	788 1.1×	203 0.8×	54	3.1k
Robert Fickler Canada	26	3.1k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	784 1.0×	907 1.2×	198 0.8×	69	3.7k
Sergei Slussarenko Italy	22	3.0k 1.1×	1.4k 0.9×	669 0.9×	912 1.2×	96 0.4×	54	3.4k
Filippus S. Roux South Africa	27	2.5k 0.9×	756 0.5×	568 0.7×	967 1.3×	134 0.5×	100	2.7k
Sven Ramelow Austria	27	3.0k 1.1×	2.0k 1.2×	847 1.1×	400 0.5×	237 0.9×	63	3.5k
Daniel A. Nolan United States	26	3.6k 1.3×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 2.5×	972 1.3×	93 0.4×	124	4.7k
Radek Łapkiewicz Austria	16	1.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.7×	408 0.5×	493 0.7×	318 1.3×	40	2.4k
Andrea Aiello Germany	37	4.6k 1.7×	1.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.7×	1.7k 2.3×	172 0.7×	115	5.0k
Christoph Marquardt Germany	37	4.2k 1.5×	2.5k 1.5×	1.9k 2.5×	780 1.1×	118 0.5×	125	5.1k
Jacquiline Romero United Kingdom	19	1.9k 0.7×	883 0.5×	295 0.4×	578 0.8×	175 0.7×	36	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mehul Malik

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McCutcheon, Will, Emma E. Wollman, Andrew D. Beyer, et al.. (2025). High-efficiency, high-count-rate 2D superconducting nanowire single-photon detector array. Optics Express. 33(13). 27602–27602. 5 indexed citations

Valencia, Natalia Herrera, et al.. (2025). A large-scale reconfigurable multiplexed quantum photonic network. Nature Photonics. 20(2). 202–207.

Malik, Mehul, et al.. (2025). Quantum information processing with spatially structured light. Advanced Photonics. 8(1).

Valencia, Natalia Herrera, Will McCutcheon, Armin Tavakoli, et al.. (2024). Inverse design of high-dimensional quantum optical circuits in a complex medium. Nature Physics. 20(2). 232–239. 25 indexed citations

Tyler, Max, et al.. (2023). Simultaneously Sorting Overlapping Quantum States of Light. Physical Review Letters. 130(14). 143602–143602. 10 indexed citations

Conti, Claudio, et al.. (2023). Referenceless characterization of complex media using physics-informed neural networks. Optics Express. 31(20). 32824–32824. 13 indexed citations

Valencia, Natalia Herrera, Will McCutcheon, Sébastien Designolle, et al.. (2022). Quick Quantum Steering: Overcoming Loss and Noise with Qudits. Physical Review X. 12(4). 24 indexed citations

Zhu, Feng, et al.. (2021). Is high-dimensional photonic entanglement robust to noise?. AVS Quantum Science. 3(1). 38 indexed citations

Designolle, Sébastien, Roope Uola, Natalia Herrera Valencia, et al.. (2021). Genuine High-Dimensional Quantum Steering. Physical Review Letters. 126(20). 200404–200404. 49 indexed citations

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Valencia, Natalia Herrera, et al.. (2021). Entangled ripples and twists of light: Radial and azimuthal Laguerre-Gaussian mode entanglement. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations

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Valencia, Natalia Herrera, Matej Pivoluska, Marcus Huber, et al.. (2020). High-Dimensional Pixel Entanglement: Efficient Generation and Certification. Quantum. 4. 376–376. 58 indexed citations

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Ding, Yunhong, Stefano Paesani, Davide Bacco, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: Chip-to-chip quantum teleportation and multi-photon entanglement in silicon. Nature Physics. 16(3). 367–367. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Feng, Max Tyler, Natalia Herrera Valencia, Mehul Malik, & Jonathan Leach. (2019). Are high-dimensional entangled states robust to noise?. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Ding, Yunhong, Stefano Paesani, Davide Bacco, et al.. (2019). Demonstration of Chip-To-Chip Quantum Teleportation. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 8750050.

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Valencia, Natalia Herrera, Claude Klöckl, Matej Pivoluska, et al.. (2017). Two measurements are sufficient for certifying high-dimensional entanglement. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Krenn, Mario, Johannes Handsteiner, Matthias Fink, et al.. (2016). Twisted light transmission over 143 km. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(48). 13648–13653. 290 indexed citations breakdown →

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Malik, Mehul, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Zhimin Shi, & Robert W. Boyd. (2014). Efficient separation of the orbital angular momentum eigenstates of light. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 2 indexed citations

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Malik, Mehul, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Martin P. J. Lavery, et al.. (2014). Direct measurement of a 27-dimensional orbital-angular-momentum state vector. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3115–3115. 159 indexed citations

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Malik, Mehul, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Martin P. J. Lavery, et al.. (2013). Direct Measurement of Quantum State Rotations. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations

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Jha, Anand K., Mehul Malik, & Robert W. Boyd. (2008). Exploring Energy-Time Entanglement Using Geometric Phase. Physical Review Letters. 101(18). 180405–180405. 22 indexed citations

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