Xiang Ni

5.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
116 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Xiang Ni is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geometry and Topology and Applied Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiang Ni has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 29 papers in Geometry and Topology and 24 papers in Applied Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Xiang Ni's work include Topological Materials and Phenomena (34 papers), Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (23 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (18 papers). Xiang Ni is often cited by papers focused on Topological Materials and Phenomena (34 papers), Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows (23 papers) and Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications (18 papers). Xiang Ni collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Russia. Xiang Ni's co-authors include Alexander B. Khanikaev, Andrea Alù, Matthew Weiner, S. Hossein Mousavi, Alexey Slobozhanyuk, Daria A. Smirnova, Laxmikant V. Kalé, Azriel Z. Genack, Camille Jouvaud and Xiaojun Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xiang Ni

106 papers receiving 3.8k 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.

Observation of higher-order topological acoustic states protected by generalized chiral symmetry

2018 538 citations Xiang Ni, Matthew Weiner et al. profile →
Robust reconfigurable electromagnetic pathways within a photonic topological insulator

2016 432 citations Xiang Ni, Alexander B. Khanikaev et al. profile →
Higher-order topological states in photonic kagome crystals with long-range interactions

2019 310 citations Mengyao Li, Dmitry V. Zhirihin et al. Nature Photonics profile →
Exceptional points and non-Hermitian photonics at the nanoscale

2023 176 citations Xiang Ni, Andrea Alù et al. profile →
Hyperbolic shear polaritons in low-symmetry crystals

2022 132 citations Nikolai Christian Paßler, Xiang Ni et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xiang Ni United States	28	2.7k	912	694	680	532	116	3.9k
Andrew Houck United States	34	8.5k 3.2×	634 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	356 0.5×	313 0.6×	66	9.6k
Takashi Hikihara Japan	35	1.1k 0.4×	418 0.5×	2.0k 2.9×	203 0.3×	110 0.2×	284	4.1k
Wolfgang Porod United States	47	5.0k 1.9×	697 0.8×	6.5k 9.3×	899 1.3×	915 1.7×	323	9.4k
D.J. Frank United States	38	1.6k 0.6×	230 0.3×	6.1k 8.7×	1.1k 1.6×	1.3k 2.5×	146	7.6k
Robert Drost United States	29	755 0.3×	245 0.3×	1.6k 2.3×	450 0.7×	869 1.6×	109	2.8k
Chao Peng China	25	2.0k 0.8×	586 0.6×	1.5k 2.2×	711 1.0×	122 0.2×	129	2.9k
Matthias Heinrich Germany	42	5.6k 2.1×	528 0.6×	1.7k 2.4×	876 1.3×	329 0.6×	155	6.5k
Houjun Sun China	27	1.0k 0.4×	310 0.3×	1.2k 1.7×	394 0.6×	211 0.4×	287	2.9k
Yan Wang China	31	405 0.2×	535 0.6×	2.6k 3.8×	329 0.5×	284 0.5×	346	3.7k
Yonatan Plotnik Israel	17	5.1k 1.9×	767 0.8×	958 1.4×	609 0.9×	515 1.0×	50	5.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Zhou, Lei, Xiang Ni, Junbo Xu, et al.. (2025). Engineering shear polaritons in 2D twisted heterostructures. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2953–2953. 2 indexed citations

Ni, Xiang, Shixiong Yin, Huanan Li, & Andrea Alù. (2025). Topological wave phenomena in photonic time quasicrystals. Physical review. B.. 111(12). 1 indexed citations

Gao, Feng, Yu‐Gui Peng, Xiang Xiao, et al.. (2024). Acoustic Higher‐Order Topological Insulators Induced by Orbital‐Interactions. Advanced Materials. 36(23). e2312421–e2312421. 23 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaojuan, et al.. (2024). Pogorelov estimates for semi-convex solutions of 𝑘-curvature equations. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.

Li, Mengyao, et al.. (2024). Topology classification in bi-anisotropic topological photonic crystals via the Wilson loop approach [Invited]. Optical Materials Express. 14(8). 1995–1995. 1 indexed citations

Ni, Xiang, et al.. (2024). k-convex hypersurfaces with prescribed Weingarten curvature in warped product manifolds. Nonlinear Analysis. 249. 113640–113640.

Paßler, Nikolai Christian, Xiang Ni, Giulia Carini, et al.. (2023). Layer-resolved resonance intensity of evanescent polariton modes in anisotropic multilayers. Physical review. B.. 107(23). 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Zhou, Xiang Ni, Jiamin Quan, et al.. (2023). Gate-Tuning Hybrid Polaritons in Twisted α-MoO₃/Graphene Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 23(23). 11252–11259. 13 indexed citations

Yang, Zhen, Guangyu Bao, Ran Huo, et al.. (2023). Programming hydrogel adhesion with engineered polymer network topology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(39). e2307816120–e2307816120. 16 indexed citations

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He, Yan, et al.. (2023). A Class of Prescribed Weingarten Curvature Equations for Locally Convex Hypersurfaces with Boundary in $$\mathbb {R}^{n+1}$$. Journal of Geometric Analysis. 34(2).

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Matson, Joseph R., Sören Waßerroth, Xiang Ni, et al.. (2023). Controlling the propagation asymmetry of hyperbolic shear polaritons in beta-gallium oxide. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5240–5240. 37 indexed citations

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Weiner, Matthew, Xiang Ni, Andrea Alù, & Alexander B. Khanikaev. (2022). Synthetic Pseudo-Spin-Hall effect in acoustic metamaterials. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6332–6332. 3 indexed citations

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Ni, Xiang, et al.. (2021). Pogorelov type estimates for a class of Hessian quotient equations. Journal of Differential Equations. 282. 272–284. 7 indexed citations

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Vakulenko, Anton, Svetlana Kiriushechkina, Mingsong Wang, et al.. (2021). Near‐Field Characterization of Higher‐Order Topological Photonic States at Optical Frequencies. Advanced Materials. 33(18). e2004376–e2004376. 34 indexed citations

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Darabi, Amir, Xiang Ni, Michael J. Leamy, & Andrea Alù. (2020). Reconfigurable Floquet elastodynamic topological insulator based on synthetic angular momentum bias. Science Advances. 6(29). eaba8656–eaba8656. 57 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiaojuan, et al.. (2020). A class of Hessian quotient equations in Euclidean space. Journal of Differential Equations. 269(12). 11172–11194. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Mengyao, Dmitry V. Zhirihin, Maxim A. Gorlach, et al.. (2019). Higher-order topological states in photonic kagome crystals with long-range interactions. Nature Photonics. 14(2). 89–94. 310 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ni, Xiang, Kai Chen, Matthew Weiner, et al.. (2019). Observation of Hofstadter butterfly and topological edge states in reconfigurable quasi-periodic acoustic crystals. Communications Physics. 2(1). 101 indexed citations

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Ni, Xiang, David Purtseladze, Daria A. Smirnova, et al.. (2018). Spin- and valley-polarized one-way Klein tunneling in photonic topological insulators. Science Advances. 4(5). eaap8802–eaap8802. 97 indexed citations

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Gorlach, Maxim A., Xiang Ni, Daria A. Smirnova, et al.. (2018). Far-field probing of leaky topological states in all-dielectric metasurfaces. Nature Communications. 9(1). 909–909. 136 indexed citations

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