John Watrous

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
59 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

John Watrous is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computational Theory and Mathematics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, John Watrous has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 27 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics and 21 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in John Watrous's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (52 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (35 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (18 papers). John Watrous is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (52 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (35 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (18 papers). John Watrous collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Singapore. John Watrous's co-authors include Marco Piani, Richard Cleve, Harry Buhrman, Ronald de Wolf, Andris Ambainis, Eric Bach, Chris Marriott, Ashwin Nayak, Ashvin Vishwanath and Alexei Kitaev and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

John Watrous

59 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

Quantum Fingerprinting 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2018 2015 200 400 600

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John Watrous Canada 26 3.6k 2.1k 1.2k 208 166 59 4.0k
Sam Gutmann United States 22 3.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 301 1.4× 160 1.0× 37 3.8k
Julia Kempe United States 25 4.2k 1.2× 3.1k 1.4× 1.2k 1.0× 197 0.9× 310 1.9× 56 4.7k
Andrew M. Childs United States 33 5.5k 1.5× 3.1k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 281 1.4× 329 2.0× 95 6.1k
Dorit Aharonov Israel 22 2.6k 0.7× 1.6k 0.7× 869 0.7× 125 0.6× 150 0.9× 38 2.9k
Harry Buhrman Netherlands 28 3.6k 1.0× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 188 0.9× 207 1.2× 138 4.3k
Ronald de Wolf Netherlands 26 2.9k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 1.5k 1.2× 100 0.5× 192 1.2× 87 3.4k
Kristan Temme United States 17 5.0k 1.4× 3.0k 1.4× 861 0.7× 248 1.2× 537 3.2× 32 5.7k
Andris Ambainis United States 31 3.9k 1.1× 1.3k 0.6× 2.2k 1.8× 108 0.5× 115 0.7× 112 4.1k
Ashley Montanaro United Kingdom 23 2.4k 0.7× 1.2k 0.6× 573 0.5× 94 0.5× 277 1.7× 66 2.7k
Scott Aaronson United States 27 3.7k 1.0× 1.9k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 179 0.9× 541 3.3× 109 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by John Watrous

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Fields of papers citing papers by John Watrous

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Watrous

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of John Watrous. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of John Watrous based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with John Watrous. John Watrous is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Vidick, Thomas & John Watrous. (2016). Quantum Proofs. now publishers, Inc. eBooks. 8 indexed citations
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Vidick, Thomas & John Watrous. (2016). Quantum Proofs. arXiv (Cornell University). 11(1-2). 1–215. 16 indexed citations
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Piani, Marco & John Watrous. (2015). Necessary and Sufficient Quantum Information Characterization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Steering. Physical Review Letters. 114(6). 60404–60404. 357 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Leung, Debbie, et al.. (2013). Coherent state exchange in multi-prover quantum interactive proof systems.. 2013. 6 indexed citations
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Beigi, Salman, Peter W. Shor, & John Watrous. (2011). . Theory of Computing. 7(1). 101–117. 9 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2009). . Theory of Computing. 5(1). 217–238. 116 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2004). Many Copies May Be Required for Entanglement Distillation. Physical Review Letters. 93(1). 24 indexed citations
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Coppersmith, S. N., et al.. (2004). One-dimensional quantum walks with absorbing boundaries. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 69(4). 562–592. 76 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2003). On the number of copies required for entanglement distillation. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2003). On the complexity of simulating space-bounded quantum computations. Computational Complexity. 12(1-2). 48–84. 21 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2003). PSPACE has constant-round quantum interactive proof systems. Theoretical Computer Science. 292(3). 575–588. 44 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2003). Limits on the power of quantum statistical zero-knowledge. 459–468. 37 indexed citations
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Ambainis, Andris & John Watrous. (2002). Two-way finite automata with quantum and classical states. Theoretical Computer Science. 287(1). 299–311. 75 indexed citations
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Cleve, Richard & John Watrous. (2002). Fast parallel circuits for the quantum Fourier transform. 526–536. 75 indexed citations
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Ambainis, Andris, Eric Bach, Ashwin Nayak, Ashvin Vishwanath, & John Watrous. (2001). One-dimensional quantum walks. 37–49. 303 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (2001). Quantum Simulations of Classical Random Walks and Undirected Graph Connectivity. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 62(2). 376–391. 114 indexed citations
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Buhrman, Harry, Richard Cleve, John Watrous, & Ronald de Wolf. (2001). Quantum Fingerprinting. Physical Review Letters. 87(16). 167902–167902. 729 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cleve, Richard, et al.. (2000). Quantum Fourier transforms for extracting hidden linear structures in finite fields. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Watrous, John. (1999). Space-Bounded Quantum Complexity. Journal of Computer and System Sciences. 59(2). 281–326. 24 indexed citations
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Watrous, John & Eric Bach. (1998). Space-bounded quantum computation. 78(9). 1136–9. 9 indexed citations

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