2026 Daniel A. Lidar: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	87	336	317	113	104	371	27521
Physics	92	2109	2004	1078	1007	422	30356

Research.com Recognitions

2017 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2015 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to quantum information processing
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method
2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Daniel A. Lidar is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on areas within computer science and physics and astronomy.

Their major fields of study include:

Computer Science
Physics and Astronomy

The scientist's subfields of study reflect a concentration on:

Artificial Intelligence
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Infectious Diseases

The core topics of their work encompass:

Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Quantum and electron transport phenomena
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata
Quantum many-body systems
Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing

Notable recent publications by Daniel A. Lidar include:

Coherent quantum annealing in a programmable 2,000-qubit Ising chain, 2022, Nature Physics
Suppression of Crosstalk in Superconducting Qubits Using Dynamical Decoupling, 2022, Physical Review Applied
Prospects for quantum enhancement with diabatic quantum annealing, 2021, Nature Reviews Physics
Dynamical decoupling for superconducting qubits: A performance survey, 2023, Physical Review Applied
Identification of driver genes for critical forms of COVID-19 in a deeply phenotyped young patient cohort, 2021, Science Translational Medicine

The frequent coauthors collaborating with the scientist include:

V.K. Tripathi
Eli Levenson-Falk
Bibek Pokharel
Huo Chen
Jeffrey A. Grover

Daniel A. Lidar has published extensively in various venues, with the most frequent being:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review Applied
PRX Quantum
Physical Review Letters
npj Quantum Information

Their recognitions include fellowships from prestigious organizations:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2017
IEEE Fellow, 2015, for contributions to quantum information processing
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2012
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2007, with citation for contributions to the theory of decoherence control of open quantum systems for quantum information processing, especially the decoherence free subspace method
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2003

Best Publications

Decoherence-Free Subspaces for Quantum Computation

D. A. Lidar;I. L. Chuang;K. B. Whaley

2342
Citations
Adiabatic quantum computation

Tameem Albash;Daniel A. Lidar

1600
Citations
Evidence for quantum annealing with more than one hundred qubits

Sergio Boixo;Troels F. Rønnow;Sergei V. Isakov;Zhihui Wang

957
Citations
Defining and detecting quantum speedup

Troels F. Rønnow;Zhihui Wang;Joshua Job;Sergio Boixo;Sergio Boixo

737
Citations
Theory of decoherence-free fault-tolerant universal quantum computation

Julia Kempe;Julia Kempe;D. Bacon;D. A. Lidar;K. B. Whaley

685
Citations
Fault-tolerant quantum dynamical decoupling

K. Khodjasteh;D.A. Lidar;D.A. Lidar

671
Citations
Quantum phase transitions and bipartite entanglement.

Lian-Ao Wu;Marcelo S. Sarandy;Daniel A. Lidar

613
Citations
Quantum Error Correction

Daniel A. Lidar;Todd A. Brun

597
Citations
Is the Geometry of Nature Fractal

David Avnir;Ofer Biham;Daniel Lidar;Ofer Malcai

569
Citations
Quantum Process Tomography: Resource Analysis of Different Strategies

M. Mohseni;M. Mohseni;A. T. Rezakhani;A. T. Rezakhani;D. A. Lidar

502
Citations
Decoherence-protected quantum gates for a hybrid solid-state spin register.

T. van der Sar;Z. H. Wang;M. S. Blok;H. Bernien

493
Citations
Universal Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation on Decoherence-Free Subspaces

Dave Bacon;Julia Kempe;Julia Kempe;Daniel A. Lidar;K. B. Whaley

474
Citations
Vanishing quantum discord is necessary and sufficient for completely positive maps.

Alireza Shabani;Daniel A. Lidar

417
Citations
Unification of Dynamical Decoupling and the Quantum Zeno Effect

P. Facchi;D. A. Lidar;S. Pascazio

398
Citations
The Limited Scaling Range of Empirical Fractals

David Avnir;Ofer Biham;Daniel A. Lidar;Daniel A. Lidar;Ofer Malcai

396
Citations
Quantum tensor product structures are observable induced

Paolo Zanardi;Paolo Zanardi;Daniel A. Lidar;Seth Lloyd

395
Citations
CONCATENATING DECOHERENCE-FREE SUBSPACES WITH QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTING CODES

D. A. Lidar;D. Bacon;K. B. Whaley

377
Citations
Experimental signature of programmable quantum annealing

Sergio Boixo;Tameem Albash;Federico M. Spedalieri;Nicholas Chancellor

366
Citations
Decoherence-Free Subspaces and Subsystems

Daniel A. Lidar;K. Birgitta Whaley

336
Citations
Quantum adiabatic Markovian master equations

Tameem Albash;Sergio Boixo;Daniel A Lidar;Paolo Zanardi

336
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Julia Kempe New York University

Matthias Troyer Microsoft (United States)

Robert L. Kosut SC Solutions (United States)

Herschel Rabitz Princeton University

David Avnir Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Ian A. Walmsley Imperial College London

Markus Grassl University of Gdańsk

Eli Biham Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Gershon Kurizki Weizmann Institute of Science

John M. Martinis University of California, Santa Barbara

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