Christopher Ferrie

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Christopher Ferrie is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher Ferrie has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 31 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Christopher Ferrie's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (43 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (35 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (24 papers). Christopher Ferrie is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (43 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (35 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (24 papers). Christopher Ferrie collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Canada. Christopher Ferrie's co-authors include Joshua Combes, Christopher Granade, Nathan Wiebe, David G. Cory, Robin Blume-Kohout, Joseph Emerson, Akram Youssry, Carlton M. Caves, Alberto Peruzzo and Robert J. Chapman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Christopher Ferrie

51 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum proce... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum processor in silicon
    2022 158 citations Mateusz Mądzik, Serwan Asaad 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
Christopher Ferrie Australia 20 1.3k 1.1k 167 125 57 52 1.5k
Thomas R. Bromley United Kingdom 16 1.7k 1.3× 1.2k 1.2× 124 0.7× 164 1.3× 118 2.1× 24 1.9k
Tobias Haug Singapore 18 1.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.1× 214 1.3× 111 0.9× 191 3.4× 41 2.0k
Thierry Paul France 4 1.0k 0.8× 876 0.8× 104 0.6× 177 1.4× 112 2.0× 6 1.3k
Mikel Sanz Spain 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.1× 213 1.3× 136 1.1× 125 2.2× 67 1.8k
He-Liang Huang China 17 1.7k 1.3× 1.3k 1.2× 367 2.2× 48 0.4× 141 2.5× 48 2.1k
Omar Fawzi France 16 794 0.6× 613 0.6× 72 0.4× 148 1.2× 81 1.4× 48 1.1k
Huangjun Zhu China 26 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 59 0.4× 135 1.1× 74 1.3× 58 1.5k
Giacomo Torlai Canada 12 711 0.6× 721 0.7× 53 0.3× 199 1.6× 70 1.2× 16 1.1k
Leonardo Banchi United Kingdom 20 2.0k 1.5× 1.7k 1.6× 161 1.0× 138 1.1× 85 1.5× 65 2.3k
Re-Bing Wu China 24 1.3k 1.0× 1.4k 1.3× 122 0.7× 201 1.6× 65 1.1× 121 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christopher Ferrie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christopher Ferrie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Christopher Ferrie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Christopher Ferrie 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 Christopher Ferrie. Christopher Ferrie 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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Ferrie, Christopher, et al.. (2025). Subuniversal variational circuits for combinatorial optimization problems. Physical review. A. 112(3).
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Behera, Bikash K., et al.. (2025). A quantum approach to synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE). Quantum Machine Intelligence. 7(1). 5 indexed citations
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Behera, Bikash K., et al.. (2024). Solving the vehicle routing problem via quantum support vector machines. Quantum Machine Intelligence. 6(1). 6 indexed citations
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Hsieh, Min-Hsiu, et al.. (2024). Quantum optimization for training quantum neural networks. Quantum Machine Intelligence. 6(1). 2 indexed citations
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Qi, Bo, et al.. (2024). Trainability enhancement of parameterized quantum circuits via reduced-domain parameter initialization. Physical Review Applied. 22(5). 12 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher, et al.. (2024). On the interpretability of quantum neural networks. Quantum Machine Intelligence. 6(2). 11 indexed citations
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Feng, Yuan, et al.. (2023). Alternating Layered Variational Quantum Circuits Can Be Classically Optimized Efficiently Using Classical Shadows. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(6). 6770–6778. 2 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher, et al.. (2023). An invitation to distributed quantum neural networks. Quantum Machine Intelligence. 5(2). 13 indexed citations
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Mądzik, Mateusz, Serwan Asaad, Akram Youssry, et al.. (2022). Precision tomography of a three-qubit donor quantum processor in silicon. Nature. 601(7893). 348–353. 158 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rambach, Markus, et al.. (2021). Robust and Efficient High-Dimensional Quantum State Tomography. Physical Review Letters. 126(10). 100402–100402. 53 indexed citations
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Youssry, Akram, Robert J. Chapman, Alberto Peruzzo, Christopher Ferrie, & Marco Tomamichel. (2019). Modeling and control of a reconfigurable photonic circuit using deep learning. Quantum Science and Technology. 5(2). 25001–25001. 18 indexed citations
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Li, Nan, Christopher Ferrie, Jonathan A. Gross, Amir Kalev, & Carlton M. Caves. (2016). Fisher-Symmetric Informationally Complete Measurements for Pure States. Physical Review Letters. 116(18). 180402–180402. 24 indexed citations
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Chapman, Robert J., Christopher Ferrie, & Alberto Peruzzo. (2016). Experimental Demonstration of Self-Guided Quantum Tomography. Physical Review Letters. 117(4). 40402–40402. 44 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher & Robin Blume-Kohout. (2016). Minimax Quantum Tomography: Estimators and Relative Entropy Bounds. Physical Review Letters. 116(9). 90407–90407. 12 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher. (2014). Self-Guided Quantum Tomography. Physical Review Letters. 113(19). 190404–190404. 77 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher & Joshua Combes. (2014). How the Result of a Single Coin Toss Can Turn Out to be 100 Heads. Physical Review Letters. 113(12). 120404–120404. 63 indexed citations
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Combes, Joshua, Christopher Ferrie, Jiang Zhang, & Carlton M. Caves. (2013). Probabilistic quantum metrology? Probably not. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Ferrie, Christopher & Joshua Combes. (2013). Weak values considered harmful. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Mahler, Dylan H., Lee A. Rozema, Ardavan Darabi, et al.. (2013). Adaptive Quantum State Tomography Improves Accuracy Quadratically. Physical Review Letters. 111(18). 183601–183601. 94 indexed citations
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Veitch, Victor, Christopher Ferrie, & Joseph Emerson. (2012). Negative Quasi-Probability Representation is a Necessary Resource for Magic State Distillation. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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