David Schuster

26.7k total citations · 14 hit papers
107 papers, 17.4k citations indexed

About

David Schuster is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Schuster has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 17.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 68 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 12 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Schuster's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (65 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (38 papers). David Schuster is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (65 papers), Quantum and electron transport phenomena (56 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (38 papers). David Schuster collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Switzerland. David Schuster's co-authors include Robert Schoelkopf, S. M. Girvin, Alexandre Blais, Johannes Majer, Luigi Frunzio, Jay Gambetta, Andreas Wallraff, Michel Devoret, Andrew Houck and Jens Koch and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Schuster

103 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting q... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2019 2007 2007 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics
    2004 2.7k citations Andreas Wallraff, David Schuster et al. Nature profile →
  2. Topological photonics
    2019 2.4k citations David Schuster, Jonathan Simon et al. profile →
  3. Charge-insensitive qubit design derived from the Cooper pair box
    2007 2.1k citations Jens Koch, Andrew Houck et al. profile →
  4. Coupling superconducting qubits via a cavity bus
    2007 960 citations Johannes Majer, Jens Koch et al. Nature profile →
  5. Demonstration of two-qubit algorithms with a superconducting quantum processor
    2009 798 citations David Schuster, Johannes Majer et al. Nature profile →
  6. Observation of High Coherence in Josephson Junction Qubits Measured in a Three-Dimensional Circuit QED Architecture
    2011 712 citations David Schuster, Luigi Frunzio et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  7. Resolving photon number states in a superconducting circuit
    2007 604 citations David Schuster, Andrew Houck et al. Nature profile →
  8. Quantum-information processing with circuit quantum electrodynamics
    2007 513 citations Alexandre Blais, Andreas Wallraff et al. profile →
  9. Approaching Unit Visibility for Control of a Superconducting Qubit with Dispersive Readout
    2005 413 citations Andreas Wallraff, David Schuster et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  10. Suppressing charge noise decoherence in superconducting charge qubits
    2008 374 citations Andrew Houck, Jens Koch et al. profile →
  11. Generating single microwave photons in a circuit
    2007 336 citations Andrew Houck, David Schuster et al. Nature profile →
  12. Controlling the Spontaneous Emission of a Superconducting Transmon Qubit
    2008 314 citations Andrew Houck, Jens Koch et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  13. Qubit-photon interactions in a cavity: Measurement-induced dephasing and number splitting
    2006 277 citations Alexandre Blais, David Schuster et al. profile →
  14. A dissipatively stabilized Mott insulator of photons
    2019 218 citations Ruichao Ma, Brendan Saxberg 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
David Schuster United States 45 15.6k 11.2k 2.1k 1.1k 1.0k 107 17.4k
Yasunobu Nakamura Japan 52 13.7k 0.9× 9.7k 0.9× 3.4k 1.6× 1.5k 1.3× 646 0.6× 206 15.6k
Andreas Wallraff Switzerland 62 17.1k 1.1× 14.5k 1.3× 2.5k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 939 0.9× 167 18.9k
Alexandre Blais Canada 55 17.7k 1.1× 15.6k 1.4× 2.3k 1.1× 987 0.9× 865 0.8× 125 19.5k
Robert Schoelkopf United States 71 24.6k 1.6× 19.7k 1.7× 4.2k 2.0× 2.2k 2.0× 1.1k 1.1× 144 27.6k
Luigi Frunzio United States 61 16.3k 1.0× 14.4k 1.3× 2.3k 1.1× 1.6k 1.4× 771 0.7× 169 18.6k
A. N. Cleland United States 57 12.5k 0.8× 7.9k 0.7× 4.3k 2.0× 860 0.8× 826 0.8× 136 15.0k
Johannes Majer Austria 31 9.9k 0.6× 8.2k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 713 0.6× 514 0.5× 46 10.8k
R. Blatt Austria 79 23.4k 1.5× 18.2k 1.6× 1.6k 0.8× 921 0.8× 2.0k 2.0× 282 26.3k
Vladan Vuletić United States 57 13.4k 0.9× 7.0k 0.6× 1.8k 0.9× 771 0.7× 977 0.9× 166 14.6k
J. E. Mooij Netherlands 52 10.3k 0.7× 5.3k 0.5× 2.2k 1.0× 3.9k 3.4× 628 0.6× 185 11.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhao, Fang, Tanay Roy, Kevin He, et al.. (2025). Niobium coaxial cavities with internal quality factors exceeding 1.4 × 10 9 for circuit quantum electrodynamics. Physical Review Applied. 24(4).
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Kumar, Aishwarya, et al.. (2025). Cavity QED in a high NA resonator. Science Advances. 11(9). eads8171–eads8171. 6 indexed citations
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Schuster, David, et al.. (2025). Fabrication and analysis of through-glass vias for glass-based electronic packaging using an ultrashort pulsed laser. Optics and Lasers in Engineering. 193. 109106–109106.
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Agrawal, Ankur, Akash Dixit, Tanay Roy, et al.. (2024). Stimulated Emission of Signal Photons from Dark Matter Waves. Physical Review Letters. 132(14). 140801–140801. 12 indexed citations
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Li, Ziqian, Tanay Roy, Yao Lu, Eliot Kapit, & David Schuster. (2024). Autonomous stabilization with programmable stabilized state. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6978–6978. 4 indexed citations
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Hatridge, Michael, Andrew Houck, David Schuster, et al.. (2024). Experimental advances with the QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit) for superconducting quantum hardware. Physical Review Research. 6(1). 10 indexed citations
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Harvey, Shannon P., et al.. (2024). Low-loss millimeter-wave resonators with an improved coupling structure. Superconductor Science and Technology. 37(3). 35013–35013. 2 indexed citations
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Li, Ziqian, et al.. (2023). Exploring ququart computation on a transmon using optimal control. Physical review. A. 108(6). 7 indexed citations
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Varosy, Paul D., et al.. (2023). Error-Divisible Two-Qubit Gates. Physical Review Applied. 19(2). 3 indexed citations
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Stefanazzi, Leandro, Neal Wilcer, Chris Stoughton, et al.. (2022). The QICK (Quantum Instrumentation Control Kit): Readout and control for qubits and detectors. Review of Scientific Instruments. 93(4). 44709–44709. 84 indexed citations
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Roy, Tanay, Liang Jiang, & David Schuster. (2022). Deterministic Grover search with a restricted oracle. Physical Review Research. 4(2). 25 indexed citations
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Zhou, Xianjing, Gerwin Koolstra, Ge Yang, et al.. (2022). Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform. Nature. 605(7908). 46–50. 34 indexed citations
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Saxberg, Brendan, Srivatsan Chakram, Ruichao Ma, et al.. (2022). Chiral cavity quantum electrodynamics. Nature Physics. 18(9). 1048–1052. 53 indexed citations
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Chakram, Srivatsan, Kevin He, Akash Dixit, et al.. (2022). Multimode photon blockade. Nature Physics. 18(8). 879–884. 40 indexed citations
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Gyenis, András, et al.. (2020). Universal gates for protected superconducting qubits using optimal control. Physical review. A. 101(2). 29 indexed citations
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Whiteley, Samuel J., Gary Wolfowicz, Christopher P. Anderson, et al.. (2019). Spin–phonon interactions in silicon carbide addressed by Gaussian acoustics. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 151 indexed citations
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Leung, Nelson L. C., Yao Lu, Srivatsan Chakram, et al.. (2019). Deterministic bidirectional communication and remote entanglement generation between superconducting qubits. npj Quantum Information. 5(1). 61 indexed citations
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Naik, Ravi, Nelson L. C. Leung, Srivatsan Chakram, et al.. (2017). Random access quantum information processors using multimode circuit quantum electrodynamics. Nature Communications. 8(1). 1904–1904. 89 indexed citations
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Jia, Ningyuan, Ariel Sommer, David Schuster, & Jonathan Simon. (2014). Time Reversal Invariant Topologically Insulating Circuit. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2014. 1 indexed citations
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Wallraff, Andreas, David Schuster, Alexandre Blais, et al.. (2004). Strong coupling of a single photon to a superconducting qubit using circuit quantum electrodynamics. Nature. 431(7005). 162–167. 2711 indexed citations breakdown →

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