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 Canada. Stuart Hadfield's co-authors include Eleanor Rieffel, Zhihui Wang, Davide Venturelli, Bryan O’Gorman, Rupak Biswas, Jiang Zhang, Tad Hogg, Anargyros Papageorgiou, M. Sohaib Alam and Ruslan Shaydulin 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

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.

  1. From the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to a Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz
    2019 431 citations Stuart Hadfield, Zhihui Wang et al. Algorithms profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Stuart Hadfield 871 330 257 91 43 25 940
Marcello Benedetti 875 1.0× 179 0.5× 291 1.1× 107 1.2× 33 0.8× 20 955
Neil J. Ross 742 0.9× 217 0.7× 321 1.2× 92 1.0× 69 1.6× 15 781
Benoît Valiron 789 0.9× 243 0.7× 413 1.6× 59 0.6× 53 1.2× 34 860
Joshua Job 561 0.6× 127 0.4× 231 0.9× 58 0.6× 20 0.5× 10 650
Thomas Häner 572 0.7× 141 0.4× 250 1.0× 69 0.8× 64 1.5× 13 629
Johannes Jakob Meyer 885 1.0× 148 0.4× 332 1.3× 88 1.0× 18 0.4× 16 972
Damian S. Steiger 581 0.7× 130 0.4× 297 1.2× 63 0.7× 56 1.3× 11 656
Alexandru Paler 495 0.6× 159 0.5× 214 0.8× 114 1.3× 30 0.7× 43 581
Kishor Bharti 1.1k 1.3× 186 0.6× 628 2.4× 88 1.0× 15 0.3× 26 1.2k
Ross Duncan 556 0.6× 180 0.5× 211 0.8× 89 1.0× 59 1.4× 46 655

Countries citing papers authored by Stuart Hadfield

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stuart Hadfield

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart Hadfield

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Biamonte, Jacob, et al.. (2025). Improving Quantum Approximate Optimization by Noise-Directed Adaptive Remapping. Quantum. 9. 1906–1906. 1 indexed citations
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Brady, Lucas T. & Stuart Hadfield. (2025). Feedback-based optimally controlled quantum states. Physical review. A. 111(6). 1 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, et al.. (2024). Parameter-setting heuristic for the quantum alternating operator ansatz. Physical Review Research. 6(2). 5 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, Maxime Dupont, M. Sohaib Alam, et al.. (2024). Design and execution of quantum circuits using tens of superconducting qubits and thousands of gates for dense Ising optimization problems. Physical Review Applied. 22(4). 9 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Sohaib, et al.. (2024). Highly-efficient quantum Fourier transformations for certain non-Abelian groups. Physical review. D. 110(7). 2 indexed citations
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Brady, Lucas T. & Stuart Hadfield. (2024). Iterative quantum algorithms for maximum independent set. Physical review. A. 110(5). 6 indexed citations
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Stollenwerk, Tobias & Stuart Hadfield. (2024). Measurement-Based Quantum Approximate Optimization. 1115–1127. 2 indexed citations
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Stollenwerk, Tobias & Stuart Hadfield. (2023). Diagrammatic Analysis for Parameterized Quantum Circuits. Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science. 394. 262–301. 3 indexed citations
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Dupont, Maxime, Bhuvanesh Sundar, Stephen Jeffrey, et al.. (2023). Quantum-enhanced greedy combinatorial optimization solver. Science Advances. 9(45). eadi0487–eadi0487. 23 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, et al.. (2023). Two-Unitary Decomposition Algorithm and Open Quantum System Simulation. Quantum. 7. 1002–1002. 23 indexed citations
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Alam, M. Sohaib, Stuart Hadfield, Henry Lamm, & Andy C. Y. Li. (2022). Primitive quantum gates for dihedral gauge theories. Physical review. D. 105(11). 38 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, et al.. (2022). Bounds on approximating Max kXOR with quantum and classical local algorithms. Quantum. 6. 757–757. 19 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, Tad Hogg, & Eleanor Rieffel. (2022). Analytical framework for quantum alternating operator ansätze. Quantum Science and Technology. 8(1). 15017–15017. 18 indexed citations
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O’Gorman, Bryan, et al.. (2021). Quantum-accelerated constraint programming. Quantum. 5. 550–550. 8 indexed citations
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Stollenwerk, Tobias, Stuart Hadfield, & Zhihui Wang. (2020). Toward Quantum Gate-Model Heuristics for Real-World Planning Problems. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering. 1. 1–16. 14 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, Zhihui Wang, Bryan O’Gorman, et al.. (2019). From the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm to a Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz. Algorithms. 12(2). 34–34. 431 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grabbe, Shon, Eleanor Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, et al.. (2019). Overview of NASA QuAIL Team Research. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA). 1 indexed citations
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Hadfield, Stuart, Zhihui Wang, Eleanor Rieffel, et al.. (2017). Quantum Approximate Optimization with Hard and Soft Constraints. 15–21. 24 indexed citations
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Bhaskar, Mihir K., et al.. (2016). Quantum algorithms and circuits for scientific computing. Quantum Information and Computation. 16(3&4). 197–236. 20 indexed citations

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