Benjamin J. Brown

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 907 citations indexed

About

Benjamin J. Brown is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin J. Brown has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 907 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Benjamin J. Brown's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (26 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (21 papers) and Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (11 papers). Benjamin J. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (26 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (21 papers) and Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (11 papers). Benjamin J. Brown collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Benjamin J. Brown's co-authors include Stephen D. Bartlett, Naomi Nickerson, David K. Tuckett, Jiannis K. Pachos, James R. Wootton, Dan E. Browne, Chris N. Self, Daniel Loss, Shruti Puri and Andrew S. Darmawan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin J. Brown

41 papers receiving 880 citations

Hit Papers

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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. Encoding a magic state with beyond break-even fidelity
    2024 55 citations Neereja Sundaresan, Thomas Alexander et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Benjamin J. Brown Australia 16 704 460 228 101 66 43 907
Ian Kivlichan United States 9 535 0.8× 383 0.8× 81 0.4× 42 0.4× 29 0.4× 10 664
Abhinav Anand Canada 6 916 1.3× 474 1.0× 169 0.7× 93 0.9× 9 0.1× 12 1.0k
Dominik Hangleiter United States 15 642 0.9× 516 1.1× 56 0.2× 52 0.5× 34 0.5× 34 823
Kenneth Wright United States 11 848 1.2× 711 1.5× 110 0.5× 124 1.2× 17 0.3× 20 1.1k
James R. Wootton Switzerland 14 479 0.7× 450 1.0× 113 0.5× 64 0.6× 82 1.2× 35 645
Nicholas Chancellor United Kingdom 15 616 0.9× 350 0.8× 151 0.7× 73 0.7× 60 0.9× 47 745
Joshua Job United States 6 561 0.8× 231 0.5× 127 0.6× 58 0.6× 50 0.8× 10 650
D. Wecker United States 4 804 1.1× 443 1.0× 165 0.7× 88 0.9× 75 1.1× 7 938
Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup Austria 7 381 0.5× 226 0.5× 62 0.3× 58 0.6× 16 0.2× 15 504
Jim Harrington United States 9 1.3k 1.9× 1.1k 2.3× 225 1.0× 157 1.6× 52 0.8× 12 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Benjamin J. Brown

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Benjamin J. Brown

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Benjamin J. Brown. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Benjamin J. Brown based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Benjamin J. Brown. Benjamin J. Brown is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lao, Lingling, et al.. (2025). Minimising surface-code failures using a color-code decoder. Quantum. 9. 1632–1632. 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (2025). Low-Overhead Magic State Distillation with Color Codes. PRX Quantum. 6(3). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (2024). Mitigating errors in logical qubits. Communications Physics. 7(1). 2 indexed citations
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Kesselring, Markus S., et al.. (2024). Low-overhead quantum computing with the color code. Physical Review Research. 6(4). 4 indexed citations
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Sundaresan, Neereja, Thomas Alexander, Christopher J. Wood, et al.. (2024). Encoding a magic state with beyond break-even fidelity. Nature. 625(7994). 259–263. 55 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kesselring, Markus S., et al.. (2024). Anyon Condensation and the Color Code. PRX Quantum. 5(1). 38 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (2023). Local Predecoder to Reduce the Bandwidth and Latency of Quantum Error Correction. Physical Review Applied. 19(3). 16 indexed citations
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Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2023). Quantum Computing is Scalable on a Planar Array of Qubits with Fabrication Defects. Physical Review Applied. 19(6). 16 indexed citations
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Williamson, Dominic J., et al.. (2023). A cellular automaton decoder for a noise-bias tailored color code. Quantum. 7. 940–940. 9 indexed citations
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Paesani, Stefano & Benjamin J. Brown. (2023). High-Threshold Quantum Computing by Fusing One-Dimensional Cluster States. Physical Review Letters. 131(12). 120603–120603. 26 indexed citations
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Kim, Isaac H., et al.. (2022). Low-overhead fault-tolerant quantum computing using long-range connectivity. Science Advances. 8(20). eabn1717–eabn1717. 53 indexed citations
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Darmawan, Andrew S., Benjamin J. Brown, Arne L. Grimsmo, David K. Tuckett, & Shruti Puri. (2021). Practical quantum error correction with the XZZX code and Kerr-cat qubits. arXiv (Cornell University). 95 indexed citations
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Tuckett, David K., Stephen D. Bartlett, Steven T. Flammia, & Benjamin J. Brown. (2020). Fault-Tolerant Thresholds for the Surface Code in Excess of 5% Under Biased Noise. Physical Review Letters. 124(13). 130501–130501. 72 indexed citations
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Nickerson, Naomi & Benjamin J. Brown. (2019). Analysing correlated noise on the surface code using adaptive decoding algorithms. Quantum. 3. 131–131. 37 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J.. (2017). Thoughts and Ways of Thinking: Source Theory and Its Applications. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation).
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Brown, Benjamin J., Naomi Nickerson, & Dan E. Browne. (2016). Fault-tolerant error correction with the gauge color code. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12302–12302. 57 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (2014). Entropic Barriers for Two-Dimensional Quantum Memories. Physical Review Letters. 112(12). 120503–120503. 14 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (2013). Glassy topological quantum memories in two-dimensions. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., Stephen D. Bartlett, Andrew C. Doherty, & S. D. Barrett. (2013). Topological Entanglement Entropy with a Twist. Physical Review Letters. 111(22). 220402–220402. 29 indexed citations
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Brown, Benjamin J., et al.. (1980). The linguistic fault: The case of Foucault's archaeology. Economy and Society. 9(3). 251–278. 14 indexed citations

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