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Quantum

2521-327X

Published by: Quantum

https://quantum-journal.org/

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Physics 77 49 117 24
Engineering and Technology 397 35 65 20

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 152
Documents by Best Scientists*: 282
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 8
SCIMAGO H-index: 70
SCIMAGO SJR: 2.526
Impact Factor: 5.4

Top Publications

  • Stochastic gradient descent for hybrid quantum-classical optimization

    Ryan Sweke;Frederik Wilde;Johannes Jakob Meyer;Maria Schuld

    (2020)
    227 Citations
  • Improved Fault-Tolerant Quantum Simulation of Condensed-Phase Correlated Electrons via Trotterization

    Ian D. Kivlichan;Ian D. Kivlichan;Craig Gidney;Dominic W. Berry;Nathan Wiebe

    (2020)
    149 Citations
  • Quantum-inspired algorithms in practice

    Juan Miguel Arrazola;Alain Delgado;Bhaskar Roy Bardhan;Seth Lloyd

    (2020)
    112 Citations
  • Time-dependent Hamiltonian simulation with $L^1$-norm scaling

    Dominic W. Berry;Andrew M. Childs;Yuan Su;Xin Wang;Xin Wang

    (2020)
    99 Citations
  • Encoding-dependent generalization bounds for parametrized quantum circuits

    Matthias C. Caro;Elies Gil-Fuster;Elies Gil-Fuster;Johannes Jakob Meyer;Jens Eisert;Jens Eisert;Jens Eisert

    (2021)
    91 Citations
  • Completely positive master equation for arbitrary driving and small level spacing

    Evgeny Mozgunov;Daniel A. Lidar

    (2020)
    86 Citations
  • Pulse-level noisy quantum circuits with QuTiP

    (2021)
    75 Citations

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