Mário Motta

4.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
78 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Mário Motta is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Mário Motta has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 35 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 8 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Mário Motta's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (33 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (26 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers). Mário Motta is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (33 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (26 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (15 papers). Mário Motta collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Switzerland. Mário Motta's co-authors include Austin J. Minnich, Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan, George C. Brainard, David E. Blask, Steven W. Lockley, Richard G. Stevens, Julia E. Rice, Erika Ye, Fernando G. S. L. Brandão and Matthew J. O’Rourke and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Mário Motta

71 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Determining eigenstates and thermal states on a quantum c... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2023 2025 100 200 300 400
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. Determining eigenstates and thermal states on a quantum computer using quantum imaginary time evolution
    2019 422 citations Mário Motta, Austin J. Minnich et al. profile →
  2. Measurement-induced entanglement phase transition on a superconducting quantum processor with mid-circuit readout
    2023 107 citations Mário Motta, Austin J. Minnich et al. profile →
  3. Chemistry beyond the scale of exact diagonalization on a quantum-centric supercomputer
    2025 23 citations Javier Robledo Moreno, Mário Motta et al. Science Advances profile →

Peers

Mário Motta
Hiroaki Daido Japan
Steven Weber United States
Mikhail Ivanchenko Russia
Miloš Dolnik United States
Ping Ao China
Eckehard Olbrich Germany
Klaus Schulten United States
Paolo Allegrini Italy
Stanislav Burov Israel
Hiroaki Daido Japan
Mário Motta
Citations per year, relative to Mário Motta Mário Motta (= 1×) peers Hiroaki Daido

Countries citing papers authored by Mário Motta

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mário Motta

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mário Motta

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mário Motta. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mário Motta 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 Mário Motta. Mário Motta 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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Moreno, Javier Robledo, Mário Motta, Ali Javadi-Abhari, et al.. (2025). Chemistry beyond the scale of exact diagonalization on a quantum-centric supercomputer. Science Advances. 11(25). eadu9991–eadu9991. 23 indexed citations breakdown →
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Li, Yaodong, et al.. (2025). Experimental Demonstration of Scalable Cross-Entropy Benchmarking to Detect Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions on a Superconducting Quantum Processor. Physical Review Letters. 134(12). 120401–120401. 4 indexed citations
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Kaliakin, Danil, Akhil Shajan, Javier Robledo Moreno, et al.. (2025). Accurate quantum-centric simulations of intermolecular interactions. Communications Physics. 8(1). 396–396. 1 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, Antonio Mezzacapo, & Giacomo Guarnieri. (2025). Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Precision through a Quantum-Centric Computation. Physical Review Letters. 135(18). 180601–180601.
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Motta, Mário. (2024). We’re All Healthier Under a Starry Sky. The AMA Journal of Ethic. 26(10). E804–810.
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Hejazi, Kasra, Mário Motta, & Garnet Kin‐Lic Chan. (2024). Adiabatic quantum imaginary time evolution. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 6 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, et al.. (2024). Simulation of a Diels–Alder reaction on a quantum computer. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 26(38). 25181–25191. 7 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, Kevin J. Sung, K. Birgitta Whaley, Martin Head‐Gordon, & James Shee. (2023). Bridging physical intuition and hardware efficiency for correlated electronic states: the local unitary cluster Jastrow ansatz for electronic structure. Chemical Science. 14(40). 11213–11227. 25 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, et al.. (2022). Digital Quantum Simulation of Open Quantum Systems Using Quantum Imaginary–Time Evolution. PRX Quantum. 3(1). 93 indexed citations
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Scoccia, Rossano, et al.. (2021). Dynamic modelling and comparison between transient step response of capacitive hygrometers and chilled mirrors for delay compensation. Building Simulation Conference proceedings. 17. 1 indexed citations
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Eddins, Andrew, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Sergey Bravyi, et al.. (2021). Reducing circuit size in the variational quantum eigensolver -- Part 2: Experiment. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Gujarati, Tanvi P., Andrew Eddins, Sergey Bravyi, et al.. (2021). Reducing circuit size in the variational quantum eigensolver -- Part 1: Theory. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 1 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, Rainer Stiele, W.M. Alberico, & Andrea Beraudo. (2020). Isentropic evolution of the matter in heavy-ion collisions and the\n search for the critical endpoint. arXiv (Cornell University). 13 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário, Fengjie Ma, Zhi‐Hao Cui, et al.. (2020). UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 61 indexed citations
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Berry, Dominic W., Craig Gidney, Mário Motta, Jarrod R. McClean, & Ryan Babbush. (2019). Qubitization of Arbitrary Basis Quantum Chemistry by Low Rank Factorization. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Stevens, Richard G., George C. Brainard, David E. Blask, Steven W. Lockley, & Mário Motta. (2013). Adverse Health Effects of Nighttime Lighting. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. 45(3). 343–346. 114 indexed citations
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Motta, Mário. (2011). Building My Dream Observatory. Sky and Telescope. 121(5). 32. 1 indexed citations
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Martelli, Saulo, et al.. (2002). Comparison of Three Kinematic Analyses of the Knee: Determination of Intrinsic Features and Applicability to Intraoperative Procedures. Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering. 5(2). 175–185. 5 indexed citations
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Maino, G., E. Menapace, Mário Motta, & A. Ventura. (1980). First and second chance fission calculations for actinides and related topics. 594. 500. 1 indexed citations

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