E. Knill

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
12 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

E. Knill is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, E. Knill has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 1 paper in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in E. Knill's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (10 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (9 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). E. Knill is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (10 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (9 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). E. Knill collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Australia. E. Knill's co-authors include Raymond Laflamme, G. J. Milburn, Sergio Boixo, Scott Glancy, Howard Barnum, Rolando D. Somma, Paolo Catasti, Wojciech H. Zurek, S. V. Santhana Mariappan and C. Ospelkaus and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

E. Knill

12 papers receiving 4.3k citations

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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.

A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics

2001 3.9k citations E. Knill, Raymond Laflamme et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. Knill United States	10	3.6k	3.5k	1.2k	195	192	12	4.4k
M. P. Almeida Australia	20	3.9k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	770 0.6×	194 1.0×	230 1.2×	43	4.7k
Nathan K. Langford United Kingdom	33	4.3k 1.2×	4.5k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	180 0.9×	182 0.9×	60	5.5k
Yu-Ao Chen China	43	5.3k 1.4×	5.9k 1.7×	739 0.6×	295 1.5×	172 0.9×	107	6.9k
Alessandro Fedrizzi Australia	31	3.1k 0.8×	3.2k 0.9×	756 0.6×	98 0.5×	89 0.5×	85	4.0k
Brian J. Smith United Kingdom	28	2.6k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	74 0.4×	188 1.0×	82	3.8k
Carsten Langrock United States	34	1.2k 0.3×	3.6k 1.0×	3.5k 2.8×	132 0.7×	144 0.8×	176	4.7k
Klaus Mattle Austria	7	6.2k 1.7×	6.5k 1.9×	811 0.7×	89 0.5×	222 1.2×	9	7.0k
Hugues de Riedmatten Spain	43	6.1k 1.7×	8.0k 2.3×	1.8k 1.4×	396 2.0×	267 1.4×	121	8.7k
Nicolas Sangouard Switzerland	36	4.5k 1.2×	5.5k 1.6×	921 0.7×	176 0.9×	139 0.7×	102	5.9k
Félix Bussières Switzerland	22	1.8k 0.5×	2.2k 0.7×	593 0.5×	121 0.6×	108 0.6×	49	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of E. Knill

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Colombe, Yves, et al.. (2014). Tunable spin–spin interactions and entanglement of ions in separate potential wells. Nature. 512(7512). 57–60. 62 indexed citations

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Boixo, Sergio, E. Knill, & Rolando D. Somma. (2009). Eigenpath traversal by phase randomization. Quantum Information and Computation. 9(9&10). 833–855. 23 indexed citations

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Boixo, Sergio, et al.. (2008). Quantum Simulations of Classical Annealing Processes. Physical Review Letters. 101(13). 130504–130504. 103 indexed citations

4.

Leibfried, D., E. Knill, C. Ospelkaus, & D. J. Wineland. (2007). Transport quantum logic gates for trapped ions. Physical Review A. 76(3). 39 indexed citations

5.

Wesenberg, J. H., R. B. Blakestad, J. D. Jost, et al.. (2006). Reducing the sensitivity of the M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gate for ion-trap quantum computing to unbalanced laser intensities. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 37. 1 indexed citations

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Glancy, Scott & E. Knill. (2006). Error analysis for encoding a qubit in an oscillator. Physical Review A. 73(1). 61 indexed citations

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Jones, Jonathan A., et al.. (2005). Compiling gate networks on an Ising quantum computer. Physical Review A. 72(3). 27 indexed citations

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Negrevergne, C., Rolando D. Somma, Gerardo Ortíz, E. Knill, & Raymond Laflamme. (2005). Liquid-state NMR simulations of quantum many-body problems. Physical Review A. 71(3). 41 indexed citations

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Somma, Rolando D., Gerardo Ortíz, E. Knill, & J. E. Gubernatis. (2003). ERRATA: QUANTUM SIMULATIONS OF PHYSICS PROBLEMS. International Journal of Quantum Information. 1(3). 417–417. 4 indexed citations

10.

Knill, E.. (2002). Quantum gates using linear optics and postselection. Physical Review A. 66(5). 69 indexed citations

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Knill, E., Raymond Laflamme, & G. J. Milburn. (2001). A scheme for efficient quantum computation with linear optics. Nature. 409(6816). 46–52. 3943 indexed citations breakdown →

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Laflamme, Raymond, E. Knill, Wojciech H. Zurek, Paolo Catasti, & S. V. Santhana Mariappan. (1998). NMR Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger states. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 356(1743). 1941–1948. 76 indexed citations

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