Nathaniel Johnston

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
43 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Nathaniel Johnston is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathaniel Johnston has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 28 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 12 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Nathaniel Johnston's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (31 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (25 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (24 papers). Nathaniel Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (31 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (25 papers) and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (24 papers). Nathaniel Johnston collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Nathaniel Johnston's co-authors include Marco Cianciaruso, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Piani, Carmine Napoli, Gerardo Adesso, David W. Kribs, Vincent M. Russo, Jianxin Chen, John Watrous and Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Nathaniel Johnston

40 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Me... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300 400
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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.

  1. Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence
    2016 417 citations Carmine Napoli, Thomas R. Bromley et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nathaniel Johnston Canada 14 958 899 87 59 28 43 1.0k
Volkher B. Scholz Switzerland 12 548 0.6× 588 0.7× 103 1.2× 72 1.2× 42 1.5× 33 773
Ludovico Lami Germany 17 673 0.7× 634 0.7× 93 1.1× 23 0.4× 34 1.2× 55 781
Zbigniew Puchała Poland 15 489 0.5× 463 0.5× 152 1.7× 48 0.8× 20 0.7× 49 617
Michael J. Kastoryano Germany 15 768 0.8× 813 0.9× 211 2.4× 70 1.2× 44 1.6× 24 1.1k
Gen Kimura Japan 14 341 0.4× 397 0.4× 123 1.4× 33 0.6× 21 0.8× 39 482
Akio Fujiwara Japan 14 857 0.9× 790 0.9× 94 1.1× 27 0.5× 24 0.9× 44 955
Jon Yard United States 10 626 0.7× 563 0.6× 44 0.5× 52 0.9× 56 2.0× 11 753
Ashish V. Thapliyal United States 10 1.4k 1.4× 1.2k 1.4× 57 0.7× 82 1.4× 77 2.8× 14 1.5k
Mio Murao Japan 19 1.6k 1.7× 1.6k 1.8× 129 1.5× 58 1.0× 55 2.0× 75 1.8k
Ji‐Suo Wang China 18 947 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 176 2.0× 30 0.5× 65 2.3× 187 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nathaniel Johnston

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathaniel Johnston

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2025). The factor width rank of a matrix. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 716. 32–59.
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Johnston, Nathaniel, Vincent M. Russo, & Jamie Sikora. (2025). Tight bounds for antidistinguishability and circulant sets of pure quantum states. Quantum. 9. 1622–1622. 2 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2024). Laplacian {−1,0,1}- and {−1,1}-diagonalizable graphs. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 704. 309–339. 1 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2024). A new formula for the determinant and bounds on its tensor and Waring ranks. Combinatorics Probability Computing. 33(6). 769–794. 1 indexed citations
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Holbrook, John, et al.. (2023). Real Schur norms and Hadamard matrices. Linear and Multilinear Algebra. 72(12). 1967–1984. 1 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2022). Absolutely k-incoherent quantum states and spectral inequalities for the factor width of a matrix. Physical review. A. 106(5). 3 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2022). Spectral properties of symmetric quantum states and symmetric entanglement witnesses. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 649. 273–300. 6 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2018). The inverse eigenvalue problem for entanglement witnesses. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 550. 1–27. 10 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2017). Perfect quantum state transfer using Hadamard diagonalizable graphs. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 531. 375–398. 22 indexed citations
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Chen, Jianxin & Nathaniel Johnston. (2016). 3 The Minimum Size of Unextendible Product Bases in the Bipartite Case (and Some Multipartite Cases). 22 indexed citations
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Napoli, Carmine, Thomas R. Bromley, Marco Cianciaruso, et al.. (2016). Robustness of Coherence: An Operational and Observable Measure of Quantum Coherence. Physical Review Letters. 116(15). 150502–150502. 417 indexed citations breakdown →
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2014). Is Separability from Spectrum Determined by the Partial Transpose?. 1 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2013). Process tomography for unitary quantum channels. 6 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, et al.. (2013). Generation of mapping cones from small sets. Linear Algebra and its Applications. 438(7). 3062–3075. 2 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel. (2013). Non-uniqueness of minimal superpermutations. Discrete Mathematics. 313(14). 1553–1557.
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Johnston, Nathaniel. (2013). Non-positive-partial-transpose subspaces can be as large as any entangled subspace. Physical Review A. 87(6). 20 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel & David W. Kribs. (2011). Quantum gate fidelity in terms of Choi matrices. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 44(49). 495303–495303. 9 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel, David W. Kribs, Vern I. Paulsen, & Rajesh Pereira. (2010). Minimal and maximal operator spaces and operator systems in entanglement theory. Journal of Functional Analysis. 260(8). 2407–2423. 11 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel & David W. Kribs. (2009). Schmidt Norms for Quantum States. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Johnston, Nathaniel. (2006). UNITAL CHANNEL EIGENVALUE MAJORIZATION. 1 indexed citations

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