Laird Egan

1.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 591 citations indexed

About

Laird Egan is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laird Egan has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 591 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 1 paper in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Laird Egan's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (9 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (8 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (3 papers). Laird Egan is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (9 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (8 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (3 papers). Laird Egan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Israel. Laird Egan's co-authors include Daiwei Zhu, C. Monroe, Debopriyo Biswas, Marko Cetina, Andrew Risinger, Crystal Noel, Kenneth R. Brown, Dripto M. Debroy, Michael Newman and Muyuan Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Physics.

In The Last Decade

Laird Egan

8 papers receiving 568 citations

Hit Papers

Fault-tolerant control of an error-corrected qubit 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 50 100 150 200
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. Fault-tolerant control of an error-corrected qubit
    2021 227 citations Laird Egan, Dripto M. Debroy et al. Nature profile →
  2. Measurement-induced quantum phases realized in a trapped-ion quantum computer
    2022 157 citations Crystal Noel, Pradeep Niroula et al. Nature Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Laird Egan United States 6 495 378 64 49 42 9 591
Erika Ye United States 6 381 0.8× 318 0.8× 45 0.7× 47 1.0× 35 0.8× 9 486
Andrew Risinger United States 8 407 0.8× 384 1.0× 43 0.7× 48 1.0× 32 0.8× 11 514
Yu Tong United States 11 484 1.0× 364 1.0× 65 1.0× 39 0.8× 35 0.8× 22 604
Debopriyo Biswas United States 6 383 0.8× 355 0.9× 42 0.7× 44 0.9× 29 0.7× 10 477
Crystal Noel United States 9 439 0.9× 447 1.2× 43 0.7× 57 1.2× 38 0.9× 17 586
C. Huerta Alderete United States 12 443 0.9× 345 0.9× 55 0.9× 52 1.1× 41 1.0× 23 554
Kevin Gilmore United States 12 480 1.0× 505 1.3× 55 0.9× 59 1.2× 73 1.7× 16 672
Jules Tilly United Kingdom 5 517 1.0× 341 0.9× 103 1.6× 30 0.6× 43 1.0× 5 625
Nhung H. Nguyen United States 10 387 0.8× 269 0.7× 54 0.8× 38 0.8× 40 1.0× 17 474
Nishad Maskara United States 10 318 0.6× 369 1.0× 41 0.6× 48 1.0× 57 1.4× 19 529

Countries citing papers authored by Laird Egan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laird Egan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laird Egan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Laird Egan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Laird Egan 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 Laird Egan. Laird Egan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Zhu, Daiwei, Alexandru Gheorghiu, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2024). Experimental implementation of an efficient test of quantumness. Physical review. A. 109(1).
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Zhu, Daiwei, L. H. Lewis, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2023). Interactive cryptographic proofs of quantumness using mid-circuit measurements. Nature Physics. 19(11). 1725–1731. 10 indexed citations
3.
Noel, Crystal, Pradeep Niroula, Daiwei Zhu, et al.. (2022). Measurement-induced quantum phases realized in a trapped-ion quantum computer. Nature Physics. 18(7). 760–764. 157 indexed citations breakdown →
4.
Zhu, Daiwei, Ze-Pei Cian, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2022). Cross-platform comparison of arbitrary quantum states. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6620–6620. 25 indexed citations
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Cetina, Marko, Laird Egan, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2022). Control of Transverse Motion for Quantum Gates on Individually Addressed Atomic Qubits. PRX Quantum. 3(1). 42 indexed citations
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Zhu, Daiwei, Crystal Noel, Andrew Risinger, et al.. (2021). Demonstration of Interactive Protocols for Classically-Verifiable Quantum Advantage. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2 indexed citations
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Egan, Laird, Dripto M. Debroy, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2021). Fault-Tolerant Operation of a Quantum Error-Correction Code. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Egan, Laird, Dripto M. Debroy, Crystal Noel, et al.. (2021). Fault-tolerant control of an error-corrected qubit. Nature. 598(7880). 281–286. 227 indexed citations breakdown →
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Zhu, Daiwei, Norbert M. Linke, Marcello Benedetti, et al.. (2019). Training of quantum circuits on a hybrid quantum computer. Science Advances. 5(10). eaaw9918–eaaw9918. 127 indexed citations

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