Alexei Kitaev

33.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
47 papers, 18.4k citations indexed

About

Alexei Kitaev is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexei Kitaev has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 18.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 21 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Alexei Kitaev's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Alexei Kitaev is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (18 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers) and Quantum Information and Cryptography (15 papers). Alexei Kitaev collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Canada. Alexei Kitaev's co-authors include John Preskill, Sergey Bravyi, E. Rico, José I. Latorre, Guifré Vidal, Lukasz Fidkowski, Daniel Gottesman, Zhenghan Wang, Michael Freedman and Dorit Aharonov and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and Nature Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alexei Kitaev

47 papers receiving 18.0k citations

Hit Papers

Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons 1997 2026 2006 2016 2003 2006 2003 2006 2001 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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.

  1. Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons
    2003 4.5k citations Alexei Kitaev Annals of Physics profile →
  2. Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond
    2006 3.5k citations Alexei Kitaev Annals of Physics profile →
  3. Entanglement in Quantum Critical Phenomena
    2003 2.0k citations Guifré Vidal, José I. Latorre et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  4. Topological Entanglement Entropy
    2006 1.6k citations Alexei Kitaev, John Preskill Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Encoding a qubit in an oscillator
    2001 899 citations Alexei Kitaev, John Preskill et al. Physical Review A profile →
  6. Universal quantum computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas
    2005 879 citations Sergey Bravyi, Alexei Kitaev Physical Review A profile →
  7. Quantum computations: algorithms and error correction
    1997 761 citations Alexei Kitaev profile →
  8. Fermionic Quantum Computation
    2002 583 citations Sergey Bravyi, Alexei Kitaev Annals of Physics profile →
  9. Topological phases of fermions in one dimension
    2011 561 citations Alexei Kitaev et al. Physical Review B profile →
  10. Effects of interactions on the topological classification of free fermion systems
    2010 403 citations Alexei Kitaev et al. Physical Review B profile →
  11. 2 Models for gapped boundaries and domain walls
    2016 235 citations Alexei Kitaev, Liang Kong profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexei Kitaev United States 30 14.5k 7.0k 6.7k 1.5k 1.2k 47 18.4k
Frank Verstraete Austria 69 18.1k 1.2× 9.3k 1.3× 5.7k 0.8× 2.9k 1.9× 289 0.2× 208 20.0k
Eugene Demler United States 82 24.3k 1.7× 4.2k 0.6× 9.2k 1.4× 3.0k 1.9× 2.4k 2.1× 392 27.3k
Guifré Vidal Australia 62 21.0k 1.5× 12.1k 1.7× 6.2k 0.9× 3.2k 2.1× 154 0.1× 137 23.0k
Immanuel Bloch Germany 87 40.0k 2.8× 8.6k 1.2× 9.8k 1.5× 5.9k 3.8× 1.1k 0.9× 194 41.5k
Michael Freedman United States 32 7.9k 0.5× 1.6k 0.2× 3.5k 0.5× 465 0.3× 1.9k 1.6× 119 10.9k
Masuo Suzuki Japan 47 6.1k 0.4× 1.2k 0.2× 6.4k 0.9× 3.0k 1.9× 1.3k 1.1× 338 10.7k
Chetan Nayak United States 53 13.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.3× 7.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 2.9k 2.5× 147 15.2k
Rosario Fazio Italy 66 16.6k 1.1× 8.3k 1.2× 3.7k 0.6× 3.7k 2.4× 1.0k 0.9× 404 18.1k
Markus Greiner United States 50 19.9k 1.4× 6.0k 0.9× 4.6k 0.7× 2.6k 1.7× 396 0.3× 90 21.1k
C. Monroe United States 78 27.3k 1.9× 22.0k 3.1× 1.4k 0.2× 2.9k 1.9× 1.1k 1.0× 228 31.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexei Kitaev

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kitaev, Alexei, et al.. (2021). Perturbative calculations of entanglement entropy. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(3). 8 indexed citations
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Kitaev, Alexei, et al.. (2020). Perturbed Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model: A Polaron in the Hyperbolic Plane. Physical Review Letters. 125(19). 196602–196602. 14 indexed citations
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Gu, Yingfei & Alexei Kitaev. (2019). On the relation between the magnitude and exponent of OTOCs. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(2). 46 indexed citations
4.
Kitaev, Alexei & Liang Kong. (2016). 2 Models for gapped boundaries and domain walls. 235 indexed citations breakdown →
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Eisenträger, Kirsten, Sean Hallgren, Alexei Kitaev, & Fang Song. (2014). A quantum algorithm for computing the unit group of an arbitrary degree number field. 293–302. 16 indexed citations
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Sadovskyy, Ivan, et al.. (2012). Quantum Superinductor with Tunable Nonlinearity. Physical Review Letters. 109(13). 137003–137003. 79 indexed citations
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Faoro, Lara, L. B. Ioffe, & Alexei Kitaev. (2012). Dissipationless dynamics of randomly coupled spins at high temperatures. Physical Review B. 86(13). 8 indexed citations
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Tikhonov, K. S., M. V. Feigel’man, & Alexei Kitaev. (2011). Power-Law Spin Correlations in a Perturbed Spin Model on a Honeycomb Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 106(6). 67203–67203. 35 indexed citations
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Faoro, Lara, Alexei Kitaev, & L. B. Ioffe. (2008). Quasiparticle Poisoning and Josephson Current Fluctuations Induced by Kondo Impurities. Physical Review Letters. 101(24). 247002–247002. 7 indexed citations
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Law, K. T., D. E. Feldman, Yuval Gefen, Alexei Kitaev, & Ady Stern. (2007). Shot Noise in Anyonic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Feldman, D. E., Yuval Gefen, Alexei Kitaev, K. T. Law, & Ady Stern. (2007). Shot noise in an anyonic Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Physical Review B. 76(8). 57 indexed citations
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Feldman, D. E. & Alexei Kitaev. (2006). Detecting Non-Abelian Statistics with an Electronic Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. Physical Review Letters. 97(18). 186803–186803. 65 indexed citations
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Kitaev, Alexei. (2006). Anyons in an exactly solved model and beyond. Annals of Physics. 321(1). 2–111. 3506 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kitaev, Alexei & John Preskill. (2006). Topological Entanglement Entropy. Physical Review Letters. 96(11). 110404–110404. 1555 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kitaev, Alexei & Sergey Bravyi. (2005). Universal quantum computation with ideal Clifford gates and noisy ancillas (14 pages). Physical Review A. 71(2). 22316. 38 indexed citations
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Freedman, Michael, Alexei Kitaev, & Jacob Lurie. (2003). Diameters of Homogeneous Spaces. Mathematical Research Letters. 10(1). 11–20. 8 indexed citations
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Vidal, Guifré, José I. Latorre, E. Rico, & Alexei Kitaev. (2003). Entanglement in Quantum Critical Phenomena. Physical Review Letters. 90(22). 227902–227902. 1954 indexed citations breakdown →
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Freedman, Michael, Alexei Kitaev, Michael Larsen, & Zhenghan Wang. (2002). Topological quantum computation. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 40(1). 31–38. 409 indexed citations
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Aharonov, Dorit, Alexei Kitaev, & Noam Nisan. (1998). Quantum circuits with mixed states. 20–30. 206 indexed citations
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Argaman, Nathan, F.-M. Dittes, E. Doron, et al.. (1993). Correlations in the actions of periodic orbits derived from quantum chaos. Physical Review Letters. 71(26). 4326–4329. 70 indexed citations

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