Matthias Christandl

8.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Matthias Christandl is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Christandl has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 61 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Computational Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Matthias Christandl's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (62 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (53 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (43 papers). Matthias Christandl is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (62 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (53 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (43 papers). Matthias Christandl collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Matthias Christandl's co-authors include Artur Ekert, Nilanjana Datta, Renato Renner, Andrew J. Landahl, Andreas Winter, Mario Berta, Roger Colbeck, Joseph M. Renes, Robert König and Graeme Mitchison and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Christandl

83 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

Perfect State Transfer in Quantum Spin Networks 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2010 250 500 750
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. Perfect State Transfer in Quantum Spin Networks
    2004 862 citations Matthias Christandl, Nilanjana Datta et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. The uncertainty principle in the presence of quantum memory
    2010 538 citations Mario Berta, Matthias Christandl et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthias Christandl Denmark 29 3.7k 3.5k 492 366 200 89 4.5k
Dėnes Petz Hungary 23 2.0k 0.5× 2.0k 0.6× 1.2k 2.4× 358 1.0× 182 0.9× 75 3.7k
Man-Duen Choi Canada 21 1.6k 0.4× 1.5k 0.4× 416 0.8× 674 1.8× 380 1.9× 47 3.5k
Sergey Bravyi United States 37 5.3k 1.4× 4.6k 1.3× 418 0.8× 1.1k 3.1× 132 0.7× 75 7.0k
Shao-Ming Fei China 33 4.1k 1.1× 4.0k 1.1× 573 1.2× 138 0.4× 101 0.5× 391 4.7k
Steven T. Flammia United States 33 4.3k 1.2× 3.7k 1.1× 359 0.7× 336 0.9× 28 0.1× 73 5.2k
Daniel Gottesman United States 29 8.2k 2.2× 6.6k 1.9× 268 0.5× 1.1k 3.1× 68 0.3× 56 8.8k
Ingemar Bengtsson Sweden 27 2.4k 0.6× 2.5k 0.7× 1.3k 2.7× 218 0.6× 208 1.0× 104 4.3k
Barbara M. Terhal United States 46 7.2k 2.0× 6.5k 1.8× 372 0.8× 783 2.1× 109 0.5× 105 8.3k
M. B. Hastings United States 30 1.5k 0.4× 3.5k 1.0× 1.1k 2.2× 161 0.4× 211 1.1× 73 4.5k
Bei Zeng China 26 1.8k 0.5× 1.9k 0.5× 279 0.6× 234 0.6× 55 0.3× 108 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthias Christandl

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Christandl

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Christandl, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Fundamental Limit on the Power of Entanglement Assistance in Quantum Communication. Physical Review Letters. 134(2). 20802–20802. 3 indexed citations
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Cho, Minsik, et al.. (2025). High Ground State Overlap via Quantum Embedding Methods. 3(1). 7 indexed citations
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Briët, Jop, et al.. (2024). Discreteness of Asymptotic Tensor Ranks (Extended Abstract). DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 1 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Fault-Tolerant Coding for Entanglement-Assisted Communication. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 70(4). 2655–2673. 4 indexed citations
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França, Daniel Stilck, et al.. (2024). Going beyond gadgets: the importance of scalability for analogue quantum simulators. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6527–6527.
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Christandl, Matthias. (2024). The tensor as an informational resource. PNAS Nexus. 3(9). pgae254–pgae254.
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Christandl, Matthias, et al.. (2023). Tip of the Quantum Entropy Cone. Physical Review Letters. 131(24). 3 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias, et al.. (2023). A Gap in the Subrank of Tensors. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 7(4). 742–767. 4 indexed citations
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Borregaard, Johannes, Matthias Christandl, & Daniel Stilck França. (2019). Noise-robust exploration of quantum matter on near-term quantum devices. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias, et al.. (2019). Barriers for fast matrix multiplication from irreversibility. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 9 indexed citations
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Buhrman, Harry, et al.. (2017). Nondeterministic Quantum Communication Complexity: the Cyclic Equality Game and Iterated Matrix Multiplication. UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam). 6 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias, Luc Vinet, & Alexei Zhedanov. (2017). Analytic next-to-nearest-neighbor XX models with perfect state transfer and fractional revival. Physical review. A. 96(3). 19 indexed citations
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Schilling, Christian, David J. Gross, & Matthias Christandl. (2013). Pinning of Fermionic Occupation Numbers. Physical Review Letters. 110(4). 40404–40404. 79 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias & Renato Renner. (2012). Reliable Quantum State Tomography. Physical Review Letters. 109(12). 120403–120403. 118 indexed citations
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Bürgisser, Peter, Matthias Christandl, & Christian Ikenmeyer. (2010). Even partitions in plethysms. Journal of Algebra. 328(1). 322–329. 10 indexed citations
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Berta, Mario, Matthias Christandl, Roger Colbeck, Joseph M. Renes, & Renato Renner. (2009). An Entropic Uncertainty Relation With Quantum Side Information. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Piani, Marco, et al.. (2009). Broadcast Copies Reveal the Quantumness of Correlations. Physical Review Letters. 102(25). 250503–250503. 65 indexed citations
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Berta, Mario, Matthias Christandl, & Renato Renner. (2009). A Conceptually Simple Proof of the Quantum Reverse Shannon Theorem. 2 indexed citations
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Masanes, Lluís, Renato Renner, Andreas Winter, Jonathan Barrett, & Matthias Christandl. (2006). Security of key distribution from causality constraints. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Christandl, Matthias, Nilanjana Datta, T. C. Dorlas, et al.. (2005). Perfect transfer of arbitrary states in quantum spin networks. Physical Review A. 71(3). 361 indexed citations

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