2026 Antonio Acín: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	85	2579	2453	45	44	300	31861

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2579

2453

300

31861

Antonio Acín publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Antonio Acín sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 300 publications — 18th percentile

18% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Antonio Acín D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Antonio Acín sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 85 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Antonio Acín is affiliated with the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Spain. Their research spans across several intersecting disciplines, primarily focusing on computer science and physics and astronomy.

The main fields of study for Antonio Acín include:

Computer Science
Physics and Astronomy

Within these broad fields, their work extends into a variety of subfields, notably:

Artificial Intelligence
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computational Theory and Mathematics

Antonio Acín's primary research topics revolve around quantum science and technology, particularly:

Quantum Information and Cryptography
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum many-body systems
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata

The scientist has published extensively across several notable venues. The frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review Letters
Quantum
Physical Review Research
Physical review. A/Physical review, A

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Antonio Acín are:

Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified, 2021, Nature
Unsupervised Phase Discovery with Deep Anomaly Detection, 2020, Physical Review Letters
Scalable Bell Inequalities for Qubit Graph States and Robust Self-Testing, 2020, Physical Review Letters
Device-independent quantum key distribution with asymmetric CHSH inequalities, 2021, Quantum
Bell Nonlocality Is Not Sufficient for the Security of Standard Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Protocols, 2021, Physical Review Letters

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Antonio Acín include:

Donato Farina
Máté Farkas
Leonardo Zambrano
Marc-Olivier Renou
Luke Mortimer

Best Publications

Device-independent security of quantum cryptography against collective attacks.

Antonio Acín;Nicolas Brunner;Nicolas Gisin;Serge Massar

1977
Citations
Random numbers certified by Bell's theorem.

Stefano Pironio;Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acín;Serge Massar;A Boyer de la Giroday

1714
Citations
Quantum Cryptography Protocols Robust against Photon Number Splitting Attacks for Weak Laser Pulse Implementations

Valerio Scarani;Antonio Acín;Grégoire Ribordy;Nicolas Gisin

1025
Citations
Multidimensional quantum entanglement with large-scale integrated optics.

Jianwei Wang;Jianwei Wang;Stefano Paesani;Yunhong Ding;Raffaele Santagati

933
Citations
From Bell's Theorem to Secure Quantum Key Distribution

Antonio Acín;Nicolas Gisin;Lluis Masanes

816
Citations
A convergent hierarchy of semidefinite programs characterizing the set of quantum correlations

Miguel Navascués;Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acín

756
Citations
Quantum cloning

Valerio Scarani;Sofyan Iblisdir;Nicolas Gisin;Antonio Acin

751
Citations
Classification of mixed three-qubit states

A. Acin;D. Bruss;M. Lewenstein;A. Sanpera

717
Citations
Almost all quantum states have nonclassical correlations

A. Ferraro;L. Aolita;D. Cavalcanti;F. M. Cucchietti

663
Citations
Generalized schmidt decomposition and classification of three-quantum-Bit states

A. Acín;A. Andrianov;A. Andrianov;L. Costa;E. Jané

655
Citations
Device-independent quantum key distribution secure against collective attacks

Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acín;Nicolas Brunner;Nicolas Gisin

644
Citations
The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view

Antonio Acín;Immanuel Felix Bloch;Immanuel Felix Bloch;Harry M. Buhrman;Tommaso Calarco

641
Citations
Discriminating States: the quantum Chernoff bound.

Kmr Audenaert;J Calsamiglia;R Munoz-Tapia;E Bagan

616
Citations
Bounding the set of quantum correlations.

Miguel Navascués;Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acín

567
Citations
Optimality of Gaussian Attacks in Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography

Miguel Navascués;Frédéric Grosshans;Antonio Acín

506
Citations
General properties of nonsignaling theories

Ll. Masanes;Antonio Acin;Nicolas Gisin

427
Citations
Secure device-independent quantum key distribution with causally independent measurement devices

Lluís Masanes;Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acín

405
Citations
Quantum nonlocality in two three-level systems

Antonio Acin;T. Durt;Nicolas Gisin;J. L. Latorre

368
Citations
The European Quantum Technologies Roadmap

Antonio Acín;Immanuel Bloch;Harry Buhrman;Tommaso Calarco

337
Citations
Testing the dimension of Hilbert spaces.

Nicolas Brunner;Stefano Pironio;Antonio Acin;Nicolas Gisin

331
Citations