S. X. Hu

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
208 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

S. X. Hu is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Mechanics of Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, S. X. Hu has authored 208 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 140 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 126 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 80 papers in Mechanics of Materials. Recurrent topics in S. X. Hu's work include Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (122 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (77 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (75 papers). S. X. Hu is often cited by papers focused on Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics (122 papers), Laser-induced spectroscopy and plasma (77 papers) and Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications (75 papers). S. X. Hu collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. S. X. Hu's co-authors include L. A. Collins, Christoph H. Keitel, V. N. Goncharov, Anthony F. Starace, Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan, S. Skupsky, Yousef I. Salamin, Burkhard Militzer, D. D. Meyerhofer and Valentin V. Karasiev and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

S. X. Hu

196 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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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.

Relativistic high-power laser–matter interactions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. X. Hu United States	41	4.0k	3.1k	1.7k	1.4k	539	208	5.6k
C. Deutsch France	33	2.8k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	977 0.7×	216 0.4×	282	4.6k
J. Meyer‐ter‐Vehn Germany	32	2.5k 0.6×	3.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.2×	941 0.7×	242 0.4×	83	4.7k
Y. K. Ho Taiwan	45	8.9k 2.2×	1.7k 0.6×	2.2k 1.3×	425 0.3×	624 1.2×	443	9.5k
G. Röpke Germany	50	6.5k 1.6×	5.3k 1.7×	887 0.5×	2.5k 1.7×	500 0.9×	429	10.7k
D. Habs Germany	41	3.7k 0.9×	4.3k 1.4×	1.9k 1.1×	781 0.5×	673 1.2×	213	6.1k
M. D. Rosen United States	35	2.9k 0.7×	2.8k 0.9×	2.2k 1.3×	768 0.5×	228 0.4×	115	4.4k
K. B. Fournier United States	31	2.0k 0.5×	1.8k 0.6×	1.8k 1.1×	431 0.3×	297 0.6×	193	3.3k
R. W. Lee United States	28	2.1k 0.5×	1.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	939 0.7×	192 0.4×	65	3.1k
T. Ditmire United States	44	5.9k 1.5×	4.6k 1.5×	4.2k 2.5×	823 0.6×	528 1.0×	219	8.1k
L. A. Collins United States	44	6.7k 1.7×	800 0.3×	783 0.5×	1.8k 1.2×	899 1.7×	203	7.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of S. X. Hu

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Karasiev, Valentin V., et al.. (2025). Pauli potential formalism at finite temperature. Physical review. B.. 111(23).

Hilleke, Katerina P., et al.. (2025). Fully thermal meta-GGA exchange correlation free-energy density functional. Physical Review Materials. 9(5). 4 indexed citations

Wu, Zhipeng, Xi Huang, Peixun Fan, et al.. (2024). Spatiotemporal Reaction Dynamics Control in Two‐Photon Polymerization for Enhancing Writing Characteristics. Advanced Materials Technologies. 9(10). 6 indexed citations

Millot, M., G. W. Collins, S. X. Hu, et al.. (2024). Multimessenger measurements of the static structure of shock-compressed liquid silicon at 100 GPa. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 7 indexed citations

Hu, S. X., et al.. (2024). Temperature and density dependent pair potential for deuterium under shock. AIP conference proceedings. 3066. 510002–510002. 1 indexed citations

Kafka, Kyle R. P., S. X. Hu, H. Huang, V. N. Goncharov, & Stavros G. Demos. (2024). Imaging the dynamics of initial laser-driven shocks and blowoff plasmas in polystyrene under laser-direct-drive fusion conditions. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 1 indexed citations

Shaffer, Nathaniel R., S. X. Hu, Valentin V. Karasiev, et al.. (2024). Comparing ab initio and quantum-kinetic approaches to electron transport in warm dense matter. Physics of Plasmas. 31(6).

Kononov, Alina, Alexander White, K. A. Nichols, S. X. Hu, & Andrew Baczewski. (2024). Reproducibility of real-time time-dependent density functional theory calculations of electronic stopping power in warm dense matter. Physics of Plasmas. 31(4). 2 indexed citations

Karasiev, Valentin V., et al.. (2024). Tunable noninteracting free-energy density functionals for high-energy-density physics applications. Physics of Plasmas. 31(7). 6 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, D. B., M. J. Rosenberg, S. X. Hu, et al.. (2024). X-ray imaging and electron temperature evolution in laser-driven magnetic reconnection experiments at the national ignition facility. Physics of Plasmas. 31(8).

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Nichols, K. A., S. X. Hu, Alexander White, et al.. (2024). Time-dependent density-functional theory study on nonlocal electron stopping for inertial confinement fusion. Physics of Plasmas. 31(6).

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Kwak, J.G., Hiroshi Kasahara, G. Nomura, et al.. (2023). Design of an optimized load-resilient conjugate T for the ICRH system in the LHD using a novel hybrid circuit/3DLHDAP code and experimental results. Nuclear Fusion. 63(12). 126027–126027. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, S. X., et al.. (2023). Dragon: A multi-GPU orbital-free density functional theory molecular dynamics simulation package for modeling of warm dense matter. Computer Physics Communications. 294. 108931–108931. 4 indexed citations

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Nichols, K. A., S. X. Hu, Alexander White, et al.. (2023). Time-dependent density-functional-theory calculations of the nonlocal electron stopping range for inertial confinement fusion applications. Physical review. E. 108(3). 35206–35206. 6 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shuai, Miguel A. Morales, Raymond Jeanloz, et al.. (2022). Nature of the bonded-to-atomic transition in liquid silica to TPa pressures. Journal of Applied Physics. 131(7). 5 indexed citations

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Karasiev, Valentin V., et al.. (2021). Improved first-principles equation-of-state table of deuterium for high-energy-density applications. Physical review. B.. 104(14). 14 indexed citations

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Shah, Rahul, S. X. Hu, I. V. Igumenshchev, et al.. (2021). Observations of anomalous x-ray emission at early stages of hot-spot formation in deuterium-tritium cryogenic implosions. Physical review. E. 103(2). 23201–23201. 7 indexed citations

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Fox, W., et al.. (2018). Kinetic simulation of magnetic field generation and collisionless shock formation in expanding laboratory plasmas. Physics of Plasmas. 25(10). 29 indexed citations

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Schaeffer, D. B., W. Fox, D. Haberberger, et al.. (2017). High-Mach number, laser-driven magnetized collisionless shocks. Physics of Plasmas. 24(12). 21 indexed citations

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Gao, Lei, S. X. Hu, C. Stöeckl, et al.. (2012). Magnetic Field Generation by the Nonlinear Rayleigh--Taylor Instability in Laser-Driven Planar Plastic Targets. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 54.

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