D. Sank

20.9k citations

42 papers · 5.9k indexed · 11 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics top 0.2%
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Artificial Intelligence top 0.2%
- Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Papers in ⓘ

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 35
- Quantum and electron transport phenomena 19
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators 7
- Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates 6
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications 5
Artificial Intelligence 34
- Quantum Information and Cryptography 33
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture 23

Co-authors: John M. Martinis (36 shared papers)J. Wenner (32 shared papers)A. N. Cleland (31 shared papers)Erik Lucero (30 shared papers)Radoslaw C. Bialczak (21 shared papers)M. Neeley (22 shared papers)H. Wang (18 shared papers)M. Hofheinz (8 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Review Letters (11 papers)Applied Physics Letters (6 papers)Nature (4 papers)Physical Review Applied (3 papers)Physical Review B (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Japan China

In The Last Decade

D. Sank

41 papers receiving 5.7k citations

Hit Papers

11 papers align trajectories log scale

Fast Accurate State Measurement with Superconducting Qubits 2014 · 261 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.

2014 Physical Review Letters
2013 Physical Review Letters
2013 Physical Review Letters
2012 Nature Physics
2012 Applied Physics Letters
2011 Science
2010 Nature
2010 Nature
2009 Science
2009 Nature
2009 Nature

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1	Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator Nature ·(unknown), M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, D. Sank, H. Wang, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1419
2	Synthesizing arbitrary quantum states in a superconducting resonator Nature ·M. Hofheinz, H. Wang, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, J. Wenner, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland Hit paper breakdown →	2009	631
3	Coherent Josephson Qubit Suitable for Scalable Quantum Integrated Circuits Physical Review Letters ·R. Barends, J. Kelly, A. Megrant, D. Sank, E. Jeffrey, Y. Chen, Yi Yin, B. Chiaro, J. Mutus, C. Neill, P. O’Malley, P. Roushan, J. Wenner, T. White, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2013	452
4	Generation of three-qubit entangled states using superconducting phase qubits Nature ·M. Neeley, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Mariantoni, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Yi Yin, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2010	310
5	Planar superconducting resonators with internal quality factors above one million Applied Physics Letters ·A. Megrant, C. Neill, R. Barends, B. Chiaro, Yu Chen, Ludwig Feigl, J. Kelly, Erik Lucero, M. Mariantoni, P. O’Malley, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. White, Yi Yin, Jie Zhao, C. J. Palmstrøm, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland Hit paper breakdown →	2012	281
6	Violation of Bell's inequality in Josephson phase qubits Nature ·M. Ansmann, H. Wang, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2009	269
7	Fast Accurate State Measurement with Superconducting Qubits Physical Review Letters ·E. Jeffrey, D. Sank, J. Mutus, T. White, J. Kelly, R. Barends, Yanbin Chen, Z. Chen, B. Chiaro, A. Dunsworth, A. Megrant, P. O’Malley, C. Neill, P. Roushan, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2014	261
8	Emulation of a Quantum Spin with a Superconducting Phase Qudit Science ·M. Neeley, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Haohua Wang, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, Michael R. Geller, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2009	218
9	Implementing the Quantum von Neumann Architecture with Superconducting Circuits Science ·M. Mariantoni, H. Wang, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, M. Neeley, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Yanbin Chen, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Yi Yin, Jie Zhao, Alexander N. Korotkov, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2011	218
10	Computing prime factors with a Josephson phase qubit quantum processor Nature Physics ·Erik Lucero, R. Barends, Yulin Chen, J. Kelly, M. Mariantoni, A. Megrant, P. O’Malley, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, T. White, Yi Yin, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2012	182
11	Quantum process tomography of a universal entangling gate implemented with Josephson phase qubits Nature Physics ·Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Ansmann, M. Hofheinz, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, J. Wenner, Matthias Steffen, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2010	162
12	Deterministic Entanglement of Photons in Two Superconducting Microwave Resonators Physical Review Letters ·H. Wang, M. Mariantoni, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yi Yin, Jie Zhao, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland	2011	154
13	Catch and Release of Microwave Photon States Physical Review Letters ·Yi Yin, Yu Chen, D. Sank, P. O’Malley, T. C. White, R. Barends, J. Kelly, Erik Lucero, M. Mariantoni, A. Megrant, C. Neill, A. Vainsencher, J. Wenner, Alexander N. Korotkov, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis Hit paper breakdown →	2013	153
14	Measurement of the Decay of Fock States in a Superconducting Quantum Circuit Physical Review Letters ·H. Wang, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2008	122
15	Surface loss simulations of superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators Applied Physics Letters ·J. Wenner, R. Barends, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, Yu Chen, J. Kelly, Erik Lucero, M. Mariantoni, A. Megrant, P. O’Malley, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, H. Wang, T. White, Yi Yin, Jie Zhao, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2011	112
16	Photon shell game in three-resonator circuit quantum electrodynamics Nature Physics ·M. Mariantoni, H. Wang, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, Yi Yin, Jie Zhao, John M. Martinis, A. N. Cleland	2011	91
17	Fast Tunable Coupler for Superconducting Qubits Physical Review Letters ·Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Ansmann, M. Hofheinz, M. Lenander, Erik Lucero, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2011	84
18	Catching Time-Reversed Microwave Coherent State Photons with 99.4% Absorption Efficiency Physical Review Letters ·J. Wenner, Yi Yin, Yu Chen, R. Barends, B. Chiaro, E. Jeffrey, J. Kelly, A. Megrant, J. Mutus, C. Neill, P. O’Malley, P. Roushan, D. Sank, A. Vainsencher, T. C. White, Alexander N. Korotkov, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2014	82
19	Quantum process tomography of two-qubit controlled-Z and controlled-NOT gates using superconducting phase qubits Physical Review B ·Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, M. Neeley, Erik Lucero, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, J. Kelly, M. Lenander, M. Mariantoni, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Yi Yin, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2010	72
20	Reduced phase error through optimized control of a superconducting qubit Physical Review A ·Erik Lucero, J. Kelly, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Lenander, M. Mariantoni, M. Neeley, A. D. O’Connell, D. Sank, H. Wang, Martin Weides, J. Wenner, Tsuyoshi Yamamoto, A. N. Cleland, John M. Martinis	2010	69

About D. Sank

D. Sank is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Computational Theory and Mathematics, having authored 42 papers that have together received 5.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (33 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (23 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (19 papers), Mechanical and Optical Resonators (7 papers), Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism (6 papers), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (6 papers), Superconducting and THz Device Technology (5 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (5.3k citations), Artificial Intelligence (4.0k citations), Condensed Matter Physics (384 citations), Acoustics and Ultrasonics (22 citations) and Electrical and Electronic Engineering (1.3k citations). D. Sank has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Japan and China. Frequent co-authors include John M. Martinis, J. Wenner, A. N. Cleland, Erik Lucero, Radoslaw C. Bialczak, M. Neeley, H. Wang, M. Hofheinz, M. Ansmann and Martin Weides. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, Nature, Physical Review Applied and Physical Review B.

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