Barbara M. Terhal

13.4k citations

105 papers · 8.3k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Artificial Intelligence top 0.05%
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.2%
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Quantum many-body systems
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Papers in

Artificial Intelligence 91
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture 82
- Quantum Information and Cryptography 72
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 79
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications 34
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena 32
- Quantum many-body systems 12

Co-authors: David P. DiVincenzo John A. Smolin Peter W. Shor Sergey Bravyi Charles H. Bennett Christophe Vuillot Paweł Horodecki Michał Horodecki
Journals: Physical Review Letters (16 papers)Physical Review A (12 papers)Quantum Information and Computation (11 papers)Physical review. A (10 papers)New Journal of Physics (7 papers)
Partner nations: United States Netherlands Germany

In The Last Decade

Barbara M. Terhal

102 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Roads towards fault-tolerant universal quantum computation 2017 · 342 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2017 Nature
2015 Reviews of Modern Physics
2001 Physical Review Letters
2000 Physics Letters A
1999 Physical Review Letters

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work
1	Neural network decoder for near-term surface-code experiments Physical Review Research ·И.В. Рожкова, 유성훈, S. C. E. Hoge, Barbara M. Terhal	2025	2
2	Solving free fermion problems on a quantum computer Physical Review Research ·Mariam Sheikholslami, А. А. Барсук, Barbara M. Terhal, Владимир Викторович Коссов	2025	1
3	Lowering Connectivity Requirements for Bivariate Bicycle Codes Using Morphing Circuits Physical Review Letters ·Yangpei Li, Barbara M. Terhal	2025	3
4	Reducing the error rate of a superconducting logical qubit using analog readout information Physical Review Applied ·C CORREIA, Yanchao Yang, Ophelia Crawford, Santorsa S, 유성훈, S. C. E. Hoge, И.В. Рожкова, Barbara M. Terhal, L. DiCarlo, Earl T. Campbell	2024	6
5	Lecture Notes on Quantum Electrical Circuits Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) ·(unknown), Shouhong Xue, David P. DiVincenzo, (unknown), Barbara M. Terhal	2024	3
6	All-Microwave Leakage Reduction Units for Quantum Error Correction with Superconducting Transmon Qubits Physical Review Letters ·Yanchao Yang, C CORREIA, 恒雄鶴巻, Matvey Finkel, W.R. Davis, Д.А. Бахашева, Götz Nordmeyer, Nandini Muthusubramanian, Marc Beekman, Nadia Haider, Barbara M. Terhal, L. DiCarlo	2023	18
7	Optimizing sparse fermionic Hamiltonians Quantum ·Владимир Викторович Коссов, Mariam Sheikholslami, Jonas Helsen, Barbara M. Terhal	2023	8
8	Fault-tolerant operation of a logical qubit in a diamond quantum processor Nature ·M. H. Abobeih, Yang Wang, J. Randall, S. J. H. Loenen, C. E. Bradley, Matthew Markham, Daniel J. Twitchen, Barbara M. Terhal, T. H. Taminiau	2022	142
9	Logical-qubit operations in an error-detecting surface code Nature Physics ·Yanchao Yang, И.В. Рожкова, Vinay Devulapalli, C CORREIA, Nandini Muthusubramanian, Christos Zachariadis, Francesco Battistel, Marc Beekman, Nadia Haider, Wouter Vlothuizen, Alessandro Bruno, Barbara M. Terhal, L. DiCarlo	2021	89
10	Scalable quantum error correction with the bosonic GKP code Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Barbara M. Terhal, Leonid P. Pryadko, Daniel Weigand, Yan Wang, Qianqian Huang, Christophe Vuillot	2019	2
11	Breeding Grid States From Schrödinger Cat States without Post-Selection Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Daniel Weigand, Barbara M. Terhal	2018	2
12	Performance and structure of bosonic codes arXiv (Cornell University) ·Victor V. Albert, Kyungjoo Noh, Kasper Duivenvoorden, Richard Brierley, Philip Reinhold, Christophe Vuillot, Linshu Li, Chao Shen, S. M. Girvin, Barbara M. Terhal, Liang Jiang	2017	2
13	A comparative code study for quantum fault tolerance Quantum Information and Computation ·Andrew W. Cross, David P. DiVincenzo, Barbara M. Terhal	2009	34
14	The complexity of stoquastic local Hamiltonian problems Quantum Information and Computation ·Sergey Bravyi, David P. DiVincenzo, Roberto I. Oliveira, Barbara M. Terhal	2008	78
15	The complexity of quantum spin systems on a two-dimensional square lattice arXiv (Cornell University) ·Roberto I. Oliveira, Barbara M. Terhal	2008	86
16	A classical approximation scheme for the ground-state energy of Ising spin Hamiltonians on planar graphs arXiv (Cornell University) ·Nikhil Bansal, Sergey Bravyi, Barbara M. Terhal	2007	2
17	A family of indecomposable positive linear maps based on entangled quantum states Linear Algebra and its Applications ·Barbara M. Terhal	2001	131
18	Evidence for Nonadditivity of Bipartite Distillable Entanglement arXiv (Cornell University) ·Peter W. Shor, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal	2000	1
19	Rank Two Bound Entangled States Do Not Exist arXiv (Cornell University) ·Paweł Horodecki, John A. Smolin, Barbara M. Terhal, Ashish V. Thapliyal	1999	4
20	Superfast quantum algorithms for coin weighing and binary search problems arXiv (Cornell University) ·Barbara M. Terhal, John A. Smolin	1997	1

About Barbara M. Terhal

Barbara M. Terhal is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Computational Mathematics, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Statistics and Probability, having authored 105 papers that have together received 8.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (82 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (72 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (34 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (32 papers), Quantum many-body systems (12 papers), Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (9 papers), Advanced Condensed Matter Physics (4 papers) and Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Artificial Intelligence (7.2k citations), Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (6.5k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (783 citations), Computational Mathematics (18 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (372 citations). Barbara M. Terhal has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Frequent co-authors include David P. DiVincenzo, John A. Smolin, Peter W. Shor, Sergey Bravyi, Charles H. Bennett, Christophe Vuillot, Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki, Tal Mor and Debbie Leung. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A, Quantum Information and Computation, Physical review. A and New Journal of Physics.

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