Simon C. Benjamin

11.5k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Simon C. Benjamin is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon C. Benjamin has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 83 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 19 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Simon C. Benjamin's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (82 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (79 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (48 papers). Simon C. Benjamin is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (82 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (79 papers) and Quantum and electron transport phenomena (48 papers). Simon C. Benjamin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Singapore and France. Simon C. Benjamin's co-authors include Xiao Yuan, Suguru Endo, Sam McArdle, Ying Li, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, John J. L. Morton, Tyson Jones, Erik M. Gauger, Joseph F. Fitzsimons and Patrick Hayden and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Simon C. Benjamin

116 papers receiving 6.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Quantum computational chemistry

2020 941 citations Sam McArdle, Suguru Endo et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →
Efficient variational quantum simulator incorporating active error minimization

2017 477 citations Simon C. Benjamin et al. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) profile →
Variational ansatz-based quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution

2019 337 citations Sam McArdle, Tyson Jones et al. profile →
Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and quantum error mitigation

2021 313 citations Simon C. Benjamin, Xiao Yuan et al. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) profile →
Quantum error mitigation

2023 260 citations Zhenyu Cai, Ryan Babbush et al. Reviews of Modern Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon C. Benjamin United Kingdom	40	5.1k	4.2k	759	686	580	121	6.8k
Qiang Zhang China	47	6.3k 1.2×	6.4k 1.5×	216 0.3×	2.0k 3.0×	1.1k 1.8×	205	9.4k
Patrick Rebentrost United States	23	5.6k 1.1×	3.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	703 1.0×	413 0.7×	45	7.5k
Mario Krenn Austria	32	2.3k 0.4×	2.7k 0.6×	588 0.8×	783 1.1×	770 1.3×	83	4.7k
Xiongfeng Ma China	44	7.8k 1.5×	7.1k 1.7×	269 0.4×	830 1.2×	575 1.0×	156	9.1k
Shutian Liu China	47	1.3k 0.2×	3.1k 0.7×	268 0.4×	1.3k 2.0×	286 0.5×	427	7.9k
Jarrod R. McClean United States	26	8.0k 1.6×	4.6k 1.1×	1.5k 2.0×	759 1.1×	366 0.6×	51	8.8k
Francesco Petruccione South Africa	35	6.4k 1.2×	6.6k 1.6×	577 0.8×	605 0.9×	318 0.5×	248	9.5k
Maria Schuld South Africa	20	4.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.4×	866 1.1×	700 1.0×	520 0.9×	38	6.0k
Lin Lin United States	39	1.2k 0.2×	2.2k 0.5×	529 0.7×	838 1.2×	1.8k 3.0×	186	4.9k
Sabre Kais United States	40	1.7k 0.3×	3.5k 0.8×	289 0.4×	1.5k 2.2×	1.3k 2.3×	275	5.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2025). A Herculean task: classical simulation of quantum computers. Science Bulletin. 70(23). 4104–4112.

Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2025). Shuttling arrives for silicon quantum computers. Nature Nanotechnology. 20(7). 857–858.

Sawaya, Nicolas P. D., Daniel P. Tabor, David E. Bernal, et al.. (2024). HamLib: A library of Hamiltonians for benchmarking quantum algorithms and hardware. Quantum. 8. 1559–1559. 3 indexed citations

Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2023). Actis: A Strictly Local Union–Find Decoder. Quantum. 7. 1183–1183. 6 indexed citations

Cai, Zhenyu, Adam Siegel, & Simon C. Benjamin. (2023). Looped Pipelines Enabling Effective 3D Qubit Lattices in a Strictly 2D Device. PRX Quantum. 4(2). 13 indexed citations

Meister, Richard J., et al.. (2023). Grid-based methods for chemistry simulations on a quantum computer. Science Advances. 9(9). eabo7484–eabo7484. 31 indexed citations

Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2023). Quantum Computing is Scalable on a Planar Array of Qubits with Fabrication Defects. Physical Review Applied. 19(6). 16 indexed citations

Cai, Zhenyu, Ryan Babbush, Simon C. Benjamin, et al.. (2023). Quantum error mitigation. Reviews of Modern Physics. 95(4). 260 indexed citations breakdown →

Morris, Garrett M., et al.. (2021). Investigating the potential for a limited quantum speedup on protein lattice problems. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 14 indexed citations

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Outeiral, Carlos, et al.. (2020). The prospects of quantum computing in computational molecular biology. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 143 indexed citations

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Endo, Suguru, Jinzhao Sun, Ying Li, Simon C. Benjamin, & Xiao Yuan. (2020). Variational Quantum Simulation of General Processes. Physical Review Letters. 125(1). 10501–10501. 157 indexed citations

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Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2020). Variational-state quantum metrology. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 69 indexed citations

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Pérez-Delgado, Carlos A., et al.. (2019). Measurement-driven analog of adiabatic quantum computation for frustration-free Hamiltonians. Physical review. A. 100(3).

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Yuan, Xiao, Suguru Endo, Martina Esposito, et al.. (2019). Implementing the Variational Quantum Eigensolver with native 2-qubit interaction and error mitigation. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2019. 2 indexed citations

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McArdle, Sam, Tyson Jones, Suguru Endo, et al.. (2018). Variational quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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McArdle, Sam, Suguru Endo, Ying Li, Simon C. Benjamin, & Xiao Yuan. (2018). Variational quantum simulation of imaginary time evolution with applications in chemistry and beyond. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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McArdle, Sam, Xiao Yuan, & Simon C. Benjamin. (2018). Error mitigated quantum computational chemistry. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Benjamin, Simon C., et al.. (2017). Efficient variational quantum simulator incorporating active error minimization. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 477 indexed citations breakdown →

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Benjamin, Simon C.. (2005). Efficient Cluster State Construction Under the Barrett and Kok Scheme. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Benjamin, Simon C.. (2005). Comment on "Efficient high-fidelity quantum computation using matter qubits and linear optics" (3 pages). Physical Review A. 72(5). 56302. 2 indexed citations

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