Peter van Loock

12.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
138 papers, 9.0k citations indexed

About

Peter van Loock is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter van Loock has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 9.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 115 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Peter van Loock's work include Quantum Information and Cryptography (127 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (71 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (64 papers). Peter van Loock is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Information and Cryptography (127 papers), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (71 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (64 papers). Peter van Loock collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Japan and United Kingdom. Peter van Loock's co-authors include Samuel L. Braunstein, Akira Furusawa, Mile Gu, Christian Weedbrook, Nicolas C. Menicucci, Timothy C. Ralph, Jun–ichi Yoshikawa, Michael A. Nielsen, Ulrik L. Andersen and William J. Munro and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Peter van Loock

132 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Quantum information with continuous variables

2005 2.6k citations Samuel L. Braunstein, Peter van Loock Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
Universal Quantum Computation with Continuous-Variable Cluster States

2006 551 citations Nicolas C. Menicucci, Peter van Loock et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
Logical states for fault-tolerant quantum computation with propagating light

2024 65 citations Warit Asavanant, Kosuke Fukui et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter van Loock Germany	45	8.3k	7.8k	1.1k	283	119	138	9.0k
Christian Weedbrook Canada	31	6.8k 0.8×	5.8k 0.7×	956 0.9×	285 1.0×	164 1.4×	56	7.5k
Cheng-Zhi Peng China	38	4.9k 0.6×	4.7k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	103 0.4×	281 2.4×	141	5.9k
Zeng‐Bing Chen China	33	4.1k 0.5×	3.9k 0.5×	489 0.4×	116 0.4×	81 0.7×	124	4.6k
Nathan K. Langford United Kingdom	33	4.3k 0.5×	4.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.1×	228 0.8×	182 1.5×	60	5.5k
Marco Barbieri Italy	39	5.4k 0.7×	5.1k 0.6×	914 0.8×	561 2.0×	178 1.5×	133	6.4k
G. Ribordy Switzerland	18	6.8k 0.8×	6.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.3×	130 0.5×	272 2.3×	29	8.2k
Masato Koashi Japan	37	4.9k 0.6×	5.2k 0.7×	404 0.4×	193 0.7×	60 0.5×	116	5.6k
Klaus Mattle Austria	7	6.2k 0.8×	6.5k 0.8×	811 0.7×	171 0.6×	222 1.9×	9	7.0k
Konrad Banaszek Poland	36	4.0k 0.5×	4.2k 0.5×	635 0.6×	292 1.0×	149 1.3×	117	4.8k
W. Hänsel Germany	26	3.8k 0.5×	5.3k 0.7×	829 0.8×	194 0.7×	67 0.6×	61	5.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2026). Compactifying linear optical unitaries using multiport beamsplitters. Physical review. A. 113(1).

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2025). Tripartite multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings model: Analytical solution and Wigner nonclassicalities. Physical review. A. 111(1).

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2025). Memory-corrected quantum repeaters with adaptive syndrome identification. Physical Review Research. 7(1). 1 indexed citations

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2024). Genuine non-Gaussian entanglement of light and quantum coherence for an atom from noisy multiphoton spin-boson interactions. Physical Review Research. 6(3). 2 indexed citations

Munro, William J., et al.. (2024). Performance of Rotation‐Symmetric Bosonic Codes in a Quantum Repeater Network. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 7(6). 3 indexed citations

Shchukin, E., et al.. (2023). Exact rate analysis for quantum repeaters with imperfect memories and entanglement swapping as soon as possible. Physical Review Research. 5(2). 24 indexed citations

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2023). Memoryless Quantum Repeaters Based on Cavity‐QED and Coherent States. Advanced Quantum Technologies. 6(8). 9 indexed citations

Takase, Kan, Kosuke Fukui, Warit Asavanant, et al.. (2023). Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill qubit synthesizer for propagating light. npj Quantum Information. 9(1). 12 indexed citations

Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2023). Deep reinforcement learning for key distribution based on quantum repeaters. Physical review. A. 108(1). 9 indexed citations

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Endo, Mamoru, Yang Liu, Yosuke Hashimoto, et al.. (2020). Phase Locking between Two All-Optical Quantum Memories. Physical Review Letters. 125(26). 260508–260508. 3 indexed citations

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Shchukin, E. & Peter van Loock. (2016). Recovering Quantum Properties of Continuous-Variable States in the Presence of Measurement Errors. Physical Review Letters. 117(14). 140504–140504. 3 indexed citations

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Dawson, C., et al.. (2015). Near-deterministic creation of universal cluster states with probabilistic Bell measurements and three-qubit resource states. Physical Review A. 91(4). 16 indexed citations

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Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2014). 3/4-Efficient Bell Measurement with Passive Linear Optics and Unentangled Ancillae. Physical Review Letters. 113(14). 140403–140403. 122 indexed citations

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Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2013). Beating the One-Half Limit of Ancilla-Free Linear Optics Bell Measurements. Physical Review Letters. 110(26). 260501–260501. 43 indexed citations

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Loock, Peter van, et al.. (2011). How to Decompose Arbitrary Continuous-Variable Quantum Operations. Physical Review Letters. 107(17). 170501–170501. 44 indexed citations

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Ukai, Ryuji, Seiji Armstrong, Alberto Politi, et al.. (2011). Demonstration of Unconditional One-Way Quantum Computations for Continuous Variables. Physical Review Letters. 106(24). 240504–240504. 105 indexed citations

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Loock, Peter van. (2010). A note on quantum error correction with continuous variables. Journal of Modern Optics. 57(19). 1965–1971. 7 indexed citations

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Menicucci, Nicolas C., Steven T. Flammia, & Peter van Loock. (2010). Graphical calculus for Gaussian pure states with applications to continuous-variable cluster states. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations

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Menicucci, Nicolas C., Peter van Loock, Mile Gu, et al.. (2006). Universal Quantum Computation with Continuous-Variable Cluster States. Physical Review Letters. 97(11). 110501–110501. 551 indexed citations breakdown →

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Braunstein, Samuel L. & Peter van Loock. (2005). Quantum information with continuous variables. Reviews of Modern Physics. 77(2). 513–577. 2617 indexed citations breakdown →

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