Xing-Can Yao

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Xing-Can Yao is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xing-Can Yao has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 15 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Xing-Can Yao's work include Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (19 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (13 papers). Xing-Can Yao is often cited by papers focused on Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (19 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers) and Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics (13 papers). Xing-Can Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Australia. Xing-Can Yao's co-authors include Jian-Wei Pan, Yu-Ao Chen, Chao‐Yang Lu, Ping Xu, Cheng-Zhi Peng, He Lu, Zeng‐Bing Chen, Weibo Gao, Tianxiong Wang and Otfried Gühne and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Xing-Can Yao

35 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Observation of eight-photon entanglement

2012 330 citations Xing-Can Yao, Tianxiong Wang et al. Nature Photonics profile →

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Xing-Can Yao

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I. M. Buluta Japan

Da Xu China

M. Röwe Canada

C. Neill United States

M. Göppl Switzerland

Clemens Müller Germany

Audrey Bienfait France

Tao Shi China

Jiří Minář United Kingdom

Christopher Axline United States

I. M. Buluta Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xing-Can Yao

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All Works

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Luo, Jian Lin, et al.. (2025). Feshbach spectroscopy of ultracold mixtures of Li6 and Dy164 atoms. Physical review. A. 111(2). 1 indexed citations

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Wang, Yu‐Xuan, et al.. (2025). Homogeneous Fermionic Hubbard Gases in a Flattop Optical Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 134(4). 43403–43403. 2 indexed citations

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Chen, Qijin, et al.. (2024). Observation and quantification of the pseudogap in unitary Fermi gases. Nature. 626(7998). 288–293. 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Yu‐Xuan, Siyuan Chen, Chi Zhang, et al.. (2024). Antiferromagnetic phase transition in a 3D fermionic Hubbard model. Nature. 632(8024). 267–272. 25 indexed citations

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Yao, Xing-Can, Biao Wu, Yingqiu Mao, et al.. (2023). Solving independent set problems with photonic quantum circuits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(22). e2212323120–e2212323120. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiangpei, Xing-Can Yao, Xiaopeng Li, et al.. (2022). Temperature-Dependent Decay of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortices across the BCS-BEC Crossover. Physical Review Letters. 129(16). 163602–163602. 1 indexed citations

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Hu, Hui, Xing-Can Yao, & Xia-Ji Liu. (2022). Second sound with ultracold atoms: a brief review. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 32(1). 7 indexed citations

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Liu, Xiangpei, Xing-Can Yao, Youjin Deng, et al.. (2021). Universal Dynamical Scaling of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Vortices in a Strongly Interacting Fermionic Superfluid. Physical Review Letters. 126(18). 185302–185302. 8 indexed citations

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Lin, Jian, et al.. (2019). Quantum Adiabatic Doping with Incommensurate Optical Lattices. Physical Review Letters. 123(23). 233603–233603. 2 indexed citations

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Xu, Ping, Hai-Lin Yong, Luo-Kan Chen, et al.. (2017). Two-Hierarchy Entanglement Swapping for a Linear Optical Quantum Repeater. Physical Review Letters. 119(17). 170502–170502. 22 indexed citations

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Wu, Yu-Ping, et al.. (2017). A quantum degenerate Bose–Fermi mixture of⁴¹K and⁶Li. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 50(9). 94001–94001. 12 indexed citations

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Lu, He, Chang Liu, Dongsheng Wang, et al.. (2017). Experimental quantum channel simulation. Physical review. A. 95(4). 25 indexed citations

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Yao, Xing-Can, Hao-Ze Chen, Yu-Ping Wu, et al.. (2016). Observation of Coupled Vortex Lattices in a Mass-Imbalance Bose and Fermi Superfluid Mixture. Physical Review Letters. 117(14). 145301–145301. 87 indexed citations

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Xu, Ping, Xiao Yuan, Luo-Kan Chen, et al.. (2014). Implementation of a Measurement-Device-Independent Entanglement Witness. Physical Review Letters. 112(14). 140506–140506. 42 indexed citations

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Lu, He, Luo-Kan Chen, Chang Liu, et al.. (2014). Experimental realization of a concatenated Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger state for macroscopic quantum superpositions. Nature Photonics. 8(5). 364–368. 35 indexed citations

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Yao, Xing-Can, et al.. (2013). Cr 0.05 Sb 1:95 Te 3 のトポロジカル表面状態の磁気異方性をスピン分極STMを使って同定する。. Physical Review Letters. 111(17). 1–176802. 19 indexed citations

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Yao, Xing-Can, Tianxiong Wang, Hao-Ze Chen, et al.. (2012). Experimental demonstration of topological error correction. Nature. 482(7386). 489–494. 148 indexed citations

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Gao, Weibo, Ping Xu, Xing-Can Yao, et al.. (2010). Experimental Realization of a Controlled-NOT Gate with Four-Photon Six-Qubit Cluster States. Physical Review Letters. 104(2). 20501–20501. 65 indexed citations

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Yao, Xing-Can, Jaromı́r Fiurášek, He Lu, et al.. (2010). Experimental Realization of Programmable Quantum Gate Array for Directly Probing Commutation Relations of Pauli Operators. Physical Review Letters. 105(12). 120402–120402. 6 indexed citations

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Gao, Weibo, Xing-Can Yao, Ping Xu, et al.. (2010). Bell inequality tests of four-photon six-qubit graph states. Physical Review A. 82(4). 10 indexed citations

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