David McKay

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

David McKay is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, David McKay has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 18 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in David McKay's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (16 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (14 papers). David McKay is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (17 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (16 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (14 papers). David McKay collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. David McKay's co-authors include Brian DeMarco, Sarah Sheldon, Jay Gambetta, Matthew White, Jerry M. Chow, Matthew Pasienski, Christopher J. Wood, Abhinav Kandala, Sergey Bravyi and Easwar Magesan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David McKay

47 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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Efficient Z gates for quantum computing

2017 333 citations David McKay, Christopher J. Wood et al. Physical review. A profile →
Mitigating measurement errors in multiqubit experiments

2021 209 citations Sarah Sheldon, Abhinav Kandala et al. Physical review. A profile →

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#	Title	Journal	Authors	Indexed citations
1	Randomized benchmarking protocol for dynamic circuits	Physical review. A	Luke C. G. Govia, David McKay et al.	1
2	Bounding the Systematic Error in Quantum Error Mitigation due to Model Violation	PRX Quantum	Luke C. G. Govia, Bradley Mitchell et al.	2
3	Native Two-Qubit Gates in Fixed-Coupling, Fixed-Frequency Transmons Beyond Cross-Resonance Interaction	PRX Quantum	Ken Xuan Wei, Isaac Lauer et al.	11
4	A randomized benchmarking suite for mid-circuit measurements	New Journal of Physics	Luke C. G. Govia, Petar Jurcevic et al.	12
5	Hamiltonian Engineering with Multicolor Drives for Fast Entangling Gates and Quantum Crosstalk Cancellation	Physical Review Letters	Ken Xuan Wei, Easwar Magesan et al.	50
6	Demonstration of a High-Fidelity cnot Gate for Fixed-Frequency Transmons with Engineered ZZ Suppression	Physical Review Letters	Abhinav Kandala, Ken Xuan Wei et al.	104
7	Suppression of Unwanted ZZ Interactions in a Hybrid Two-Qubit System	Physical Review Letters	Markus Brink, David McKay et al.	64
8	Bounds on cross-resonance gate fidelity in an extended parameter regime	Bulletin of the American Physical Society	Emily Pritchett, Abhinav Kandala et al.	0
9	Experimental considerations for zero noise extrapolation	Bulletin of the American Physical Society	Abhinav Kandala, Kristan Temme et al.	1
10	Three-Qubit Randomized Benchmarking	Physical Review Letters	David McKay, Sarah Sheldon et al.	90
11	Random access quantum information processors using multimode circuit quantum electrodynamics	Nature Communications	Ravi Naik, Nelson L. C. Leung et al.	89
12	High-Contrast Qubit Interactions Using Multimode Cavity QED	Physical Review Letters	David McKay, Ravi Naik et al.	49
13	Slow Thermalization between a Lattice and Free Bose Gas	Physical Review Letters	David McKay, Brian DeMarco et al.	13
14	Low-temperature high-density magneto-optical trapping of potassium using the open4S→5Ptransition at 405 nm	Physical Review A	David McKay, Dylan Jervis et al.	43
15	Cooling in strongly correlated optical lattices: prospects and challenges	Reports on Progress in Physics	David McKay, Brian DeMarco	130
16	Strongly Interacting Bosons in a Disordered Optical Lattice	Physical Review Letters	Matthew White, Matthew Pasienski et al.	171
17	Phase-slip-induced dissipation in an atomic Bose–Hubbard system	Nature	David McKay, Matthew White et al.	62
18	Trapping Fermionic 40K and Bosonic 87Rb on a Chip	Journal of Low Temperature Physics	S. Aubin, M. Extavour et al.	26
19	Federalism and European Union: A Political Economy Perspective	OUP Catalogue	David McKay	9
20	The Political Sustainability of European Monetary Union	British Journal of Political Science	David McKay	22

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