Daniel Gottesman

18.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
56 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Daniel Gottesman is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Gottesman has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 30 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 15 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Gottesman's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (46 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (19 papers). Daniel Gottesman is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (46 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (42 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (19 papers). Daniel Gottesman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Daniel Gottesman's co-authors include John Preskill, Isaac L. Chuang, Hoi‐Kwong Lo, Scott Aaronson, Richard Cleve, Alexei Kitaev, Norbert Lütkenhaus, Hoi-Kwong Lo, Panos Aliferis and Sarah Croke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Gottesman

55 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Demonstrating the viability of universal quantum computat... 1996 2026 2006 2016 1999 1999 2001 2004 1996 400 800 1.2k
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. Demonstrating the viability of universal quantum computation using teleportation and single-qubit operations
    1999 1.2k citations Daniel Gottesman et al. Nature profile →
  2. How to Share a Quantum Secret
    1999 1.0k citations Daniel Gottesman et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. Encoding a qubit in an oscillator
    2001 899 citations Daniel Gottesman, John Preskill et al. Physical Review A profile →
  4. Improved simulation of stabilizer circuits
    2004 827 citations Scott Aaronson, Daniel Gottesman Physical Review A profile →
  5. Class of quantum error-correcting codes saturating the quantum Hamming bound
    1996 734 citations Daniel Gottesman Physical Review A profile →
  6. Theory of fault-tolerant quantum computation
    1998 549 citations Daniel Gottesman Physical Review A profile →
  7. Security of quantum key distribution with imperfect devices
    2004 465 citations Daniel Gottesman, John Preskill et al. profile →
  8. The resource theory of stabilizer quantum computation
    2014 295 citations Daniel Gottesman et al. New Journal of Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Gottesman United States 29 8.2k 6.6k 1.1k 577 268 56 8.8k
Jarrod R. McClean United States 26 8.0k 1.0× 4.6k 0.7× 1.5k 1.3× 759 1.3× 199 0.7× 51 8.8k
Robert Raussendorf Canada 33 8.7k 1.1× 8.0k 1.2× 738 0.7× 763 1.3× 293 1.1× 73 9.8k
G. Tóth Hungary 41 5.2k 0.6× 5.9k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 1.2k 2.1× 370 1.4× 119 7.3k
Ryan Babbush United States 34 6.1k 0.7× 3.6k 0.5× 1.1k 1.0× 560 1.0× 218 0.8× 66 6.9k
Barbara M. Terhal United States 46 7.2k 0.9× 6.5k 1.0× 783 0.7× 494 0.9× 372 1.4× 105 8.3k
Richard Cleve Canada 26 7.9k 1.0× 4.8k 0.7× 2.4k 2.1× 579 1.0× 235 0.9× 57 8.5k
Aram W. Harrow United States 30 5.4k 0.7× 2.8k 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 561 1.0× 297 1.1× 79 6.1k
Kristan Temme United States 17 5.0k 0.6× 3.0k 0.4× 861 0.8× 537 0.9× 248 0.9× 32 5.7k
Andrew M. Childs United States 33 5.5k 0.7× 3.1k 0.5× 1.7k 1.5× 329 0.6× 281 1.0× 95 6.1k
Andrew Steane United Kingdom 30 4.8k 0.6× 4.2k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 434 0.8× 240 0.9× 82 6.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fu, Elain & Daniel Gottesman. (2025). Error Correction in Dynamical Codes. Quantum. 9. 1886–1886. 1 indexed citations
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Schoute, Eddie, et al.. (2025). Toward a 2D Local Implementation of Quantum Low-Density Parity-Check Codes. PRX Quantum. 6(1). 13 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Partial Syndrome Measurement for Hypergraph Product Codes. Quantum. 8. 1345–1345. 6 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Encoding Majorana codes. Physical review. A. 110(3). 2 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel. (2016). Efficient fault tolerance. Nature. 540(7631). 44–45. 4 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel. (2013). What is the Overhead Required for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation?. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel & Sandy Irani. (2013). . Theory of Computing. 9(1). 31–116. 22 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel, Thomas Jennewein, & Sarah Croke. (2012). Longer-Baseline Telescopes Using Quantum Repeaters. Physical Review Letters. 109(7). 70503–70503. 231 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel & M. B. Hastings. (2010). Entanglement versus gap for one-dimensional spin systems. New Journal of Physics. 12(2). 25002–25002. 43 indexed citations
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Hastings, Matthew B., Dorit Aharonov, & Daniel Gottesman. (2008). Entanglement vs. gap for one-dimensional spin systems. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 1 indexed citations
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Bravyi, Sergey, David Fattal, & Daniel Gottesman. (2006). GHZ extraction yield for multipartite stabilizer states. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 47(6). 28 indexed citations
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Cormick, Cecilia, Ernesto F. Galvão, Daniel Gottesman, Juan Pablo Paz, & A. O. Pittenger. (2006). Classicality in discrete Wigner functions. Physical Review A. 73(1). 81 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel & Scott Aaronson. (2004). Improved simulation of stabilizer circuits (14 pages). Physical Review A. 70(5). 52328. 12 indexed citations
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Aaronson, Scott & Daniel Gottesman. (2004). Improved simulation of stabilizer circuits. Physical Review A. 70(5). 827 indexed citations breakdown →
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Boileau, Jean-Christian, Daniel Gottesman, Raymond Laflamme, David Poulin, & Robert W. Spekkens. (2004). Robust Polarization-Based Quantum Key Distribution over a Collective-Noise Channel. Physical Review Letters. 92(1). 17901–17901. 198 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel. (2003). Private key and public key quantum cryptography. 189–189. 2 indexed citations
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Crépeau, Claude, Daniel Gottesman, & Adam Smith. (2002). Secure multi-party quantum computation. 643–652. 82 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel, et al.. (2001). Causal and localizable quantum operations. Physical Review A. 64(5). 116 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel, et al.. (1999). Full length article. Chaos Solitons & Fractals. 10(10). 1749–1758. 102 indexed citations
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Gottesman, Daniel. (1996). Class of quantum error-correcting codes saturating the quantum Hamming bound. Physical Review A. 54(3). 1862–1868. 734 indexed citations breakdown →

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