Stuart Hadfield

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 940 citations indexed

About

Stuart Hadfield is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart Hadfield has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 940 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 7 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Stuart Hadfield's work include Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (24 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (20 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Stuart Hadfield is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture (24 papers), Quantum Information and Cryptography (20 papers) and Quantum Mechanics and Applications (4 papers). Stuart Hadfield collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Netherlands. Stuart Hadfield's co-authors include Eleanor Rieffel, Zhihui Wang, Bryan O’Gorman, Davide Venturelli, Rupak Biswas, Jiang Zhang, Tad Hogg, Anargyros Papageorgiou, M. Sohaib Alam and Henry Lamm and has published in prestigious journals such as Science Advances, New Journal of Physics and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

Stuart Hadfield

25 papers receiving 901 citations

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From the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to a Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Improving Quantum Approximate Optimization by Noise-Directed Adaptive Remapping 2025 ·Quantum ·(unknown), Jacob Biamonte, Stuart Hadfield, Davide Venturelli	1
2	Feedback-based optimally controlled quantum states 2025 ·Physical review. A ·Lucas T. Brady, Stuart Hadfield	1
3	Parameter-setting heuristic for the quantum alternating operator ansatz 2024 ·Physical Review Research ·(unknown), Stuart Hadfield, Eleanor Rieffel, Norm M. Tubman, Tad Hogg	5
4	Design and execution of quantum circuits using tens of superconducting qubits and thousands of gates for dense Ising optimization problems 2024 ·Physical Review Applied ·(unknown), Stuart Hadfield, (unknown), (unknown), Maxime Dupont, (unknown), (unknown), M. Sohaib Alam, Zhihui Wang, Stephen Jeffrey, Bhuvanesh Sundar, (unknown), Shon Grabbe, Eleanor Rieffel, Matthew J. Reagor, Davide Venturelli	9
5	Highly-efficient quantum Fourier transformations for certain non-Abelian groups 2024 ·Physical review. D ·(unknown), M. Sohaib Alam, Henry Lamm, Stuart Hadfield, Erik Gustafson	2
6	Iterative quantum algorithms for maximum independent set 2024 ·Physical review. A ·Lucas T. Brady, Stuart Hadfield	6
7	Measurement-Based Quantum Approximate Optimization 2024 ·Tobias Stollenwerk, Stuart Hadfield	2
8	Diagrammatic Analysis for Parameterized Quantum Circuits 2023 ·Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science ·Tobias Stollenwerk, Stuart Hadfield	3
9	Quantum-enhanced greedy combinatorial optimization solver 2023 ·Science Advances ·Maxime Dupont, (unknown), (unknown), Bhuvanesh Sundar, Stephen Jeffrey, Yuki Yamaguchi, Dennis Feng, (unknown), Stuart Hadfield, M. Sohaib Alam, Zhihui Wang, Shon Grabbe, (unknown), Eleanor Rieffel, Davide Venturelli, Matthew J. Reagor	23
10	Encoding trade-offs and design toolkits in quantum algorithms for discrete optimization: coloring, routing, scheduling, and other problems 2023 ·Quantum ·Nicolas P. D. Sawaya, (unknown), Stuart Hadfield	5
11	Two-Unitary Decomposition Algorithm and Open Quantum System Simulation 2023 ·Quantum ·(unknown), (unknown), Stuart Hadfield, Nathan Wiebe, Filip Wudarski, Jeffrey S. Marshall	23
12	Primitive quantum gates for dihedral gauge theories 2022 ·Physical review. D ·M. Sohaib Alam, Stuart Hadfield, Henry Lamm, Andy C. Y. Li	38
13	Bounds on approximating Max kXOR with quantum and classical local algorithms 2022 ·Quantum ·(unknown), Stuart Hadfield	19
14	Analytical framework for quantum alternating operator ansätze 2022 ·Quantum Science and Technology ·Stuart Hadfield, Tad Hogg, Eleanor Rieffel	18
15	Quantum-accelerated constraint programming 2021 ·Quantum ·(unknown), Bryan O’Gorman, Jeffrey Marshall, Stuart Hadfield, Eleanor Rieffel	8
16	Toward Quantum Gate-Model Heuristics for Real-World Planning Problems 2020 ·IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering ·Tobias Stollenwerk, Stuart Hadfield, Zhihui Wang	14
17	From the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to a Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz breakdown → 2019 ·Algorithms ·Stuart Hadfield, Zhihui Wang, Bryan O’Gorman, Eleanor Rieffel, Davide Venturelli, Rupak Biswas	431
18	Quantum approximate optimization algorithm for MaxCut: A fermionic view 2018 ·Physical review. A ·Zhihui Wang, Stuart Hadfield, Jiang Zhang, Eleanor Rieffel	194
19	Quantum Approximate Optimization with Hard and Soft Constraints 2017 ·Stuart Hadfield, Zhihui Wang, Eleanor Rieffel, Bryan O’Gorman, Davide Venturelli, Rupak Biswas	24
20	Quantum algorithms and circuits for scientific computing 2016 ·Quantum Information and Computation ·Mihir K. Bhaskar, Stuart Hadfield, Anargyros Papageorgiou, (unknown)	20

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