| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Quantum cryptography | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2002 | 6,731 |
| 2 | Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2011 | 1,412 |
| 3 | Quantum communication | Nature Photonics | 2007 | 1,397 |
| 4 | Device-Independent Security of Quantum Cryptography against Collective Attacks | Physical Review Letters | 2007 | 1,221 |
| 5 | Magnetic 2D materials and heterostructures | Nature Nanotechnology | 2019 | 1,109 |
| 6 | Bell Inequalities for Arbitrarily High-Dimensional Systems | Physical Review Letters | 2002 | 735 |
| 7 | Violation of Bell Inequalities by Photons More Than 10 km Apart | Physical Review Letters | 1998 | 716 |
| 8 | Optimal Quantum Cloning Machines | Physical Review Letters | 1997 | 632 |
| 9 | Bell's inequality holds for all non-product states | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | 1991 | 621 |
| 10 | Quantum Cryptography Protocols Robust against Photon Number Splitting Attacks for Weak Laser Pulse Implementations | Physical Review Letters | 2004 | 582 |
| 11 | Quantum cryptography with coherent states | Physical Review A | 1995 | 494 |
| 12 | Quantum Cryptography Using Entangled Photons in Energy-Time Bell States | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 493 |
| 13 | Quantum cloning | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2005 | 482 |
| 14 | Multimode quantum memory based on atomic frequency combs | Physical Review A | 2009 | 453 |
| 15 | Quantum Cryptography with 3-State Systems | Physical Review Letters | 2000 | 450 |
| 16 | Quantum Repeaters with Photon Pair Sources and Multimode Memories | Physical Review Letters | 2007 | 447 |
| 17 | Secure Quantum Key Distribution over 421 km of Optical Fiber | Physical Review Letters | 2018 | 447 |
| 18 | Trojan-horse attacks on quantum-key-distribution systems | Physical Review A | 2006 | 431 |
| 19 | Tight finite-key analysis for quantum cryptography | Nature Communications | 2012 | 428 |
| 20 | Hidden quantum nonlocality revealed by local filters | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | 1996 | 427 |
| 21 | High-quality sandwiched black phosphorus heterostructure and its quantum oscillations | Nature Communications | 2015 | 423 |
| 22 | Quantum memories | European Physical Journal D | 2010 | 420 |
| 23 | Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal | Nature | 2011 | 416 |
| 24 | Long-distance teleportation of qubits at telecommunication wavelengths | Nature | 2003 | 411 |
| 25 | A solid-state light–matter interface at the single-photon level | Nature | 2008 | 410 |
| 26 | Roadmap of optical communications | Journal of Optics (United Kingdom) | 2016 | 402 |
| 27 | Optimal eavesdropping in quantum cryptography. I. Information bound and optimal strategy | Physical Review A | 1997 | 396 |
| 28 | “Plug and play” systems for quantum cryptography | Applied Physics Letters | 1997 | 394 |
| 29 | Device-independent quantum key distribution secure against collective attacks | New Journal of Physics | 2009 | 379 |
| 30 | Provably secure and practical quantum key distribution over 307 km of optical fibre | Nature Photonics | 2015 | 378 |
| 31 | Quantum cryptography using larger alphabets | Physical Review A | 2000 | 360 |
| 32 | The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view | New Journal of Physics | 2018 | 358 |
| 33 | Experimental demonstration of quantum secret sharing | Physical Review A | 2001 | 356 |
| 34 | Information-theoretic security proof for quantum-key-distribution protocols | Physical Review A | 2005 | 353 |
| 35 | Photon‐echo quantum memory in solid state systems | Laser and Photonics Reviews | 2010 | 351 |
| 36 | A photonic quantum information interface | Nature | 2005 | 350 |
| 37 | Detection-Loophole-Free Test of Quantum Nonlocality, and Applications | Physical Review Letters | 2013 | 350 |
| 38 | Non-Markovian quantum state diffusion | Physical Review A | 1998 | 349 |
| 39 | Probing magnetism in 2D materials at the nanoscale with single-spin microscopy | Science | 2019 | 347 |
| 40 | Maximal violation of Bell's inequality for arbitrarily large spin | Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics | 1992 | 326 |
| 41 | Open System Dynamics with Non-Markovian Quantum Trajectories | Physical Review Letters | 1999 | 310 |
| 42 | Finite-key analysis for measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution | Nature Communications | 2014 | 303 |
| 43 | Experimental entanglement distillation and ‘hidden’ non-locality | Nature | 2001 | 290 |
| 44 | Incoherent and coherent eavesdropping in the six-state protocol of quantum cryptography | Physical Review A | 1999 | 285 |
| 45 | Advances in InGaAs/InP single-photon detector systems for quantum communication | Light: Science and Applications | 2015 | 284 |
| 46 | Bell-Type Inequalities to Detect Truen-Body Nonseparability | Physical Review Letters | 2002 | 252 |
| 47 | Concise security bounds for practical decoy-state quantum key distribution | Physical Review A | 2014 | 248 |
| 48 | Proposal for Implementing Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Based on a Heralded Qubit Amplifier | Physical Review Letters | 2010 | 238 |
| 49 | Thermalizing Quantum Machines: Dissipation and Entanglement | Physical Review Letters | 2002 | 237 |
| 50 | High rate, long-distance quantum key distribution over 250 km of ultra low loss fibres | New Journal of Physics | 2009 | 229 |
