Mark Howard

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
19 papers, 930 citations indexed

About

Mark Howard is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Howard has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 930 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 4 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Mark Howard's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (16 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (12 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers). Mark Howard is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (16 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (12 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (5 papers). Mark Howard collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Canada and United Kingdom. Mark Howard's co-authors include Earl T. Campbell, Victor Veitch, Joel J. Wallman, Joseph Emerson, Jiří Vala, Wim van Dam, Bertrand Meyer, Andreas Leitner, Ilinca Ciupa and Eoin Brennan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Mark Howard

18 papers receiving 907 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.

Contextuality supplies the ‘magic’ for quantum computation

2014 346 citations Mark Howard, Joel J. Wallman et al. Nature profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Mark Howard	744	631	148	108	55	19	930
Benoît Valiron	789 1.1×	413 0.7×	243 1.6×	58 0.5×	59 1.1×	34	860
Aleks Kissinger	490 0.7×	240 0.4×	176 1.2×	39 0.4×	47 0.9×	42	591
Nengkun Yu	1.0k 1.4×	733 1.2×	142 1.0×	54 0.5×	53 1.0×	64	1.1k
Peter Selinger	1.3k 1.7×	454 0.7×	695 4.7×	19 0.2×	101 1.8×	46	1.4k
David Gosset	1.1k 1.4×	704 1.1×	286 1.9×	71 0.7×	104 1.9×	39	1.3k
Yu Guo	1.3k 1.8×	1.0k 1.7×	111 0.8×	67 0.6×	100 1.8×	54	1.5k
Wim van Dam	1.5k 2.0×	973 1.5×	394 2.7×	100 0.9×	62 1.1×	40	1.6k
Farrokh Vatan	634 0.9×	402 0.6×	173 1.2×	55 0.5×	76 1.4×	39	781
Alain Tapp	893 1.2×	546 0.9×	285 1.9×	60 0.6×	29 0.5×	22	960
Ross Duncan	556 0.7×	211 0.3×	180 1.2×	15 0.1×	89 1.6×	46	655

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Howard

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19 of 19 papers shown

Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel, Mark Howard, & Shane Mansfield. (2022). Quantum Advantage in Information Retrieval. PRX Quantum. 3(2). 10 indexed citations

Campbell, Earl T. & Mark Howard. (2017). Unifying Gate Synthesis and Magic State Distillation. Physical Review Letters. 118(6). 60501–60501. 29 indexed citations

Howard, Mark & Earl T. Campbell. (2017). Application of a Resource Theory for Magic States to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing. Physical Review Letters. 118(9). 90501–90501. 241 indexed citations

Campbell, Earl T. & Mark Howard. (2017). Unified framework for magic state distillation and multiqubit gate synthesis with reduced resource cost. Physical review. A. 95(2). 60 indexed citations

Howard, Mark, et al.. (2015). Qutrit Magic State Distillation Tight in Some Directions. Physical Review Letters. 115(3). 30501–30501. 23 indexed citations

Howard, Mark, Joel J. Wallman, Victor Veitch, & Joseph Emerson. (2015). Contextuality Supplies the Magic for Quantum Computation. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 17. 96–96.

Howard, Mark. (2015). Classical codes in quantum state space. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 48(49). 495303–495303. 2 indexed citations

Howard, Mark. (2015). Maximum nonlocality and minimum uncertainty using magic states. Physical Review A. 91(4). 18 indexed citations

Howard, Mark, Joel J. Wallman, Victor Veitch, & Joseph Emerson. (2014). Contextuality supplies the ‘magic’ for quantum computation. Nature. 510(7505). 351–355. 346 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bengtsson, Ingemar, et al.. (2014). Order 3 symmetry in the Clifford hierarchy. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 47(45). 455302–455302. 13 indexed citations

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Howard, Mark, Eoin Brennan, & Jiří Vala. (2013). Quantum Contextuality with Stabilizer States. Entropy. 15(6). 2340–2362. 16 indexed citations

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Howard, Mark & Jiří Vala. (2012). Qudit versions of the qubitπ/8gate. Physical Review A. 86(2). 64 indexed citations

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Howard, Mark & Jiří Vala. (2012). Nonlocality as a benchmark for universal quantum computation in Ising anyon topological quantum computers. Physical Review A. 85(2). 12 indexed citations

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Dam, Wim van & Mark Howard. (2011). Noise thresholds for higher-dimensional systems using the discrete Wigner function. Physical Review A. 83(3). 25 indexed citations

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Dam, Wim van & Mark Howard. (2011). Bipartite entangled stabilizer mutually unbiased bases as maximum cliques of Cayley graphs. Physical Review A. 84(1). 8 indexed citations

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Dam, Wim van & Mark Howard. (2009). Tight Noise Thresholds for Quantum Computation with Perfect Stabilizer Operations. Physical Review Letters. 103(17). 170504–170504. 16 indexed citations

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Leitner, Andreas, Ilinca Ciupa, Bertrand Meyer, & Mark Howard. (2007). Reconciling Manual and Automated Testing: The AutoTest Experience. 261a–261a. 41 indexed citations

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Howard, Mark, et al.. (2003). Type-safe covariance: Competent compilers can catch all catcalls. 5 indexed citations

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Howard, Mark & W.K. Jenkins. (2002). Two-dimensional transform domain adaptive filtering. 121–124. 1 indexed citations

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