Jarrod R. McClean

19.4k total citations · 9 hit papers
51 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Jarrod R. McClean is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jarrod R. McClean has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 23 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Jarrod R. McClean's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (41 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (33 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (13 papers). Jarrod R. McClean is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (41 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (33 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (13 papers). Jarrod R. McClean collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Jarrod R. McClean's co-authors include Ryan Babbush, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Peter J. Love, Man‐Hong Yung, Hartmut Neven, Peter Shadbolt, Xiaoqi Zhou, Jonathan Romero, Jeremy L. O’Brien and Alberto Peruzzo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Jarrod R. McClean

51 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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 variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor

2014 2.5k citations Alberto Peruzzo, Jarrod R. McClean et al. Nature Communications profile →
The theory of variational hybrid quantum-classical algorithms

2016 1.3k citations Jarrod R. McClean, Ryan Babbush et al. profile →
Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes

2018 1.2k citations Jarrod R. McClean, Sergio Boixo et al. Nature Communications profile →
Hybrid quantum-classical hierarchy for mitigation of decoherence and determination of excited states

2017 335 citations Jarrod R. McClean, Wibe A. de Jong et al. profile →
Computation of Molecular Spectra on a Quantum Processor with an Error-Resilient Algorithm

2018 302 citations Jarrod R. McClean, Wibe A. de Jong et al. profile →
Quantum advantage in learning from experiments

2022 298 citations Hsin-Yuan Huang, Michael Broughton et al. Science profile →
Quantum error mitigation

2023 260 citations Zhenyu Cai, Ryan Babbush et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
Even More Efficient Quantum Computations of Chemistry Through Tensor Hypercontraction

2021 189 citations Dominic W. Berry, Craig Gidney et al. profile →
Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

2025 51 citations Martín Larocca, Supanut Thanasilp et al. Nature Reviews Physics profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing breakdown → 2025 ·Nature Reviews Physics ·Martín Larocca, Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, Kunal Sharma, Jacob Biamonte, Patrick J. Coles, Łukasz Cincio, Jarrod R. McClean, Zoë Holmes, M. Cerezo	51
2	Learning Shallow Quantum Circuits 2024 ·Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) ·Hsin-Yuan Huang, Yunchao Liu, Michael Broughton, Isaac H. Kim, Anurag Anshu, Zeph Landau, Jarrod R. McClean	13
3	Accelerating Quantum Algorithms with Precomputation 2024 ·Quantum ·William J. Huggins, Jarrod R. McClean	5
4	Learning quantum systems via out-of-time-order correlators 2023 ·Physical Review Research ·Thomas Schuster, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Jordan Cotler, Thomas O’Brien, Jarrod R. McClean, Masoud Mohseni	3
5	Quantum error mitigation breakdown → 2023 ·Reviews of Modern Physics ·Zhenyu Cai, Ryan Babbush, Simon C. Benjamin, Suguru Endo, William J. Huggins, Ying Li, Jarrod R. McClean, Thomas E. O’Brien	260
6	Quantum advantage in learning from experiments breakdown → 2022 ·Science ·Hsin-Yuan Huang, Michael Broughton, Jordan Cotler, Sitan Chen, Jerry Li, Masoud Mohseni, Hartmut Neven, Ryan Babbush, Richard Kueng, John Preskill, Jarrod R. McClean	298
7	An Exploration of Practical Optimizers for Variational Quantum Algorithms on Superconducting Qubit Processors 2020 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Kevin J. Sung, Matthew P. Harrigan, Nicholas C. Rubin, Jiang Zhang, Ryan Babbush, Jarrod R. McClean	2
8	Qubitization of Arbitrary Basis Quantum Chemistry by Low Rank Factorization 2019 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Dominic W. Berry, Craig Gidney, Mário Motta, Jarrod R. McClean, Ryan Babbush	3
9	Majorana Loop Stabilizer Codes for Error Mitigation in Fermionic Quantum Simulations 2019 ·Physical Review Applied ·Jiang Zhang, Jarrod R. McClean, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven	23
10	SKQuant-Opt: Optimizers for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Devices 2019 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·W. Lavrijsen, (unknown), Jeffrey Larson, Kevin J. Sung, (unknown), Juliane Mueller, Jarrod R. McClean, Ryan Babbush, Miroslav Urbánek, Costin Iancu, Wibe A. de Jong	1
11	Witnessing eigenstates for quantum simulation of Hamiltonian spectra 2018 ·Science Advances ·Raffaele Santagati, Jianwei Wang, Antonio A. Gentile, Stefano Paesani, Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod R. McClean, Sam Morley-Short, Peter Shadbolt, Damien Bonneau, Joshua W. Silverstone, David P. Tew, Xiaoqi Zhou, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson	124
12	Barren plateaus in quantum neural network training landscapes breakdown → 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Jarrod R. McClean, Sergio Boixo, Vadim Smelyanskiy, Ryan Babbush, Hartmut Neven	1197
13	The Promise and Challenges of Quantum Computing for Energy Storage 2018 ·Joule ·Alan Ho, Jarrod R. McClean, Shyue Ping Ong	19
14	Quantum Simulation of Electronic Structure with Linear Depth and Connectivity 2018 ·Physical Review Letters ·Ian Kivlichan, Jarrod R. McClean, Nathan Wiebe, Craig Gidney, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan, Ryan Babbush	254
15	Quantum simulation of Hamiltonian spectra on a silicon chip 2016 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Raffaele Santagati, (unknown), Antonio A. Gentile, Stefano Paesani, Nathan Wiebe, Jarrod R. McClean, (unknown), Peter Shadbolt, Damien Bonneau, Joshua W. Silverstone, David P. Tew, Xiaoqi Zhou, Jeremy L. O’Brien, Mark G. Thompson	4
16	Variational Quantum Eigensolver: How to Use Any Quantum Device in Your Lab to Perform Quantum Simulation 2015 ·Bulletin of the American Physical Society ·Jarrod R. McClean	1
17	Clock quantum Monte Carlo technique: An imaginary-time method for real-time quantum dynamics 2015 ·Physical Review A ·Jarrod R. McClean, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik	16
18	A variational eigenvalue solver on a photonic quantum processor breakdown → 2014 ·Nature Communications ·Alberto Peruzzo, Jarrod R. McClean, Peter Shadbolt, Man‐Hong Yung, Xiaoqi Zhou, Peter J. Love, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Jeremy L. O’Brien	2513
19	From transistor to trapped-ion computers for quantum chemistry 2014 ·Scientific Reports ·Man‐Hong Yung, J. Casanova, Antonio Mezzacapo, Jarrod R. McClean, Lucas Lamata, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, E. Solano	153
20	A preliminary cyber-physical security assessment of the Robot Operating System (ROS) 2013 ·Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Jarrod R. McClean, (unknown), Charles R. Farrar, David Mascareñas	57

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