Samson Wang

615 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 166 citations indexed

About

Samson Wang is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Samson Wang has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 166 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 2 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Samson Wang's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (6 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (5 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (2 papers). Samson Wang is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (6 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (5 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (2 papers). Samson Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Samson Wang's co-authors include M. Cerezo, Supanut Thanasilp, Zoë Holmes, Łukasz Cincio, Patrick J. Coles, Jacob Biamonte, Martín Larocca, Kunal Sharma, Jarrod R. McClean and Piotr Czarnik and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Reviews Physics and PRX Quantum.

In The Last Decade

Samson Wang

7 papers receiving 156 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing

2025 51 citations Martín Larocca, Supanut Thanasilp et al. Nature Reviews Physics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Samson Wang United States	7	145	60	20	20	9	7	166
Supanut Thanasilp Switzerland	7	137 0.9×	54 0.9×	16 0.8×	24 1.2×	11 1.2×	10	163
Vicente Leyton‐Ortega United States	2	192 1.3×	76 1.3×	27 1.4×	20 1.0×	7 0.8×	4	198
Pablo A. M. Casares Spain	9	114 0.8×	59 1.0×	22 1.1×	12 0.6×	12 1.3×	14	149
Ian Hincks Canada	6	142 1.0×	109 1.8×	12 0.6×	27 1.4×	9 1.0×	7	185
Narendra N. Hegade Spain	6	170 1.2×	90 1.5×	38 1.9×	13 0.7×	12 1.3×	15	218
Manuel S. Rudolph Switzerland	6	143 1.0×	63 1.1×	17 0.8×	13 0.7×	10 1.1×	8	167
Hlér Kristjánsson United Kingdom	4	228 1.6×	110 1.8×	31 1.6×	21 1.1×	10 1.1×	5	255
Chunhao Wang United States	7	99 0.7×	64 1.1×	19 0.9×	8 0.4×	3 0.3×	12	119
Colin Enderud United States	3	122 0.8×	92 1.5×	15 0.8×	16 0.8×	5 0.6×	3	144
Youwei Zhao China	6	97 0.7×	57 0.9×	21 1.1×	8 0.4×	5 0.6×	16	139

Countries citing papers authored by Samson Wang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samson Wang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samson Wang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Samson Wang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Samson Wang 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 Samson Wang. Samson Wang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Larocca, Martín, Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, et al.. (2025). Barren plateaus in variational quantum computing. Nature Reviews Physics. 7(4). 174–189. 51 indexed citations breakdown →

2.

Dalzell, Alexander M., Sam McArdle, Mario Berta, et al.. (2025). Quantum Algorithms. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 15 indexed citations

3.

Wang, Samson, Sam McArdle, & Mario Berta. (2024). Qubit-Efficient Randomized Quantum Algorithms for Linear Algebra. PRX Quantum. 5(2). 10 indexed citations

4.

Thanasilp, Supanut, Samson Wang, M. Cerezo, & Zoë Holmes. (2024). Exponential concentration in quantum kernel methods. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5200–5200. 38 indexed citations

5.

Wang, Samson, Piotr Czarnik, Andrew Arrasmith, et al.. (2024). Can Error Mitigation Improve Trainability of Noisy Variational Quantum Algorithms?. Quantum. 8. 1287–1287. 21 indexed citations

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Larocca, Martín, Supanut Thanasilp, Samson Wang, et al.. (2024). Barren Plateaus in Variational Quantum Computing. arXiv (Cornell University). 23 indexed citations

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Wang, Samson, et al.. (2023). The battle of clean and dirty qubits in the era of partial error correction. Quantum. 7. 1060–1060. 8 indexed citations

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