2026 Herschel Rabitz: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	97	1789	1702	935	877	1070	46913

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Research.com Recognitions

2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1975 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Herschel Rabitz is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and has made significant contributions to the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Computer Science. Their research spans a variety of subfields, notably Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Molecular Biology, and Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

Their main research topics include Quantum Information and Cryptography, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture, Quantum many-body systems, Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, and Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design.

Herschel Rabitz has published extensively, with frequent appearances in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review A, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, and Quantum.

Recent papers by Herschel Rabitz include:

Robust quantum control in games: An adversarial learning approach (2020, Physical Review A)
The optimization landscape of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms: From quantum control to NISQ applications (2022, Annual Reviews in Control)
Progress toward favorable landscapes in quantum combinatorial optimization (2021, Physical Review A)
Digital quantum simulation of molecular dynamics and control (2021, Physical Review Research)
Assessing three closed-loop learning algorithms by searching for high-quality quantum control pulses (2020, Physical Review A)

Frequent co-authors in Herschel Rabitz's work include Re-Bing Wu, Tak-San Ho, Peyman Azodi, Alicia Magann, and Christian Arenz.

Herschel Rabitz has received recognition through awards such as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

Teaching lasers to control molecules.

Richard S. Judson;Herschel Rabitz

2142
Citations
Whither the future of controlling quantum phenomena

Herschel Rabitz;Regina de Vivie-Riedle;Marcus Motzkus;Karl Kompa

1482
Citations
Coherent control of quantum dynamics: the dream is alive.

Warren S. Warren;Herschel Albert Rabitz;Mohammed Dahleh

1387
Citations
Optimal control of quantum-mechanical systems: Existence, numerical approximation, and applications

Anthony P. Peirce;Mohammed A. Dahleh;Herschel Albert Rabitz

1212
Citations
Selective Bond Dissociation and Rearrangement with Optimally Tailored, Strong-Field Laser Pulses

Robert J. Levis;Getahun M. Menkir;Herschel Rabitz

1166
Citations
General foundations of high-dimensional model representations

Herschel Albert Rabitz;Ömer F. Aliş

1054
Citations
Control of quantum phenomena: past, present and future

Constantin Brif;Raj Chakrabarti;Herschel Albert Rabitz

930
Citations
Sensitivity Analysis in Chemical Kinetics

H. Rabitz;M. Kramer;D. Dacol

685
Citations
Efficient input-output model representations

Herschel Albert Rabitz;Ömer F. Aliş;Jeffrey Shorter;Kyurhee Shim

594
Citations
Quantum Physics Under Control

Ian Walmsley;Herschel Rabitz

592
Citations
Optimal control of selective vibrational excitation in harmonic linear chain molecules

Shenghua Shi;Andrea Woody;Herschel Rabitz

589
Citations
High Dimensional Model Representations

Genyuan Li;Carey Rosenthal;Herschel Albert Rabitz

583
Citations
RAPIDLY CONVERGENT ITERATION METHODS FOR QUANTUM OPTIMAL CONTROL OF POPULATION

Wusheng Zhu;Jair Botina;Herschel Albert Rabitz

547
Citations
Quantum Optimally Controlled Transition Landscapes

Herschel Albert Rabitz;Michael M. Hsieh;Carey M. Rosenthal

526
Citations
A general method for constructing multidimensional molecular potential energy surfaces from ab initio calculations

Tak‐San Ho;Herschel Rabitz

518
Citations
Controllability of molecular systems

Viswanath Ramakrishna;Murti V. Salapaka;Mohammed Dahleh;Herschel Albert Rabitz

494
Citations
Quantum number and energy scaling for nonreactive collisions

Andrew E. DePristo;Andrew E. DePristo;Stuart D. Augustin;Ramakrishna Ramaswamy;Ramakrishna Ramaswamy;Herschel Albert Rabitz

413
Citations
Quantum mechanical optimal control of physical observables in microsystems

Shenghua Shi;Herschel Albert Rabitz

397
Citations
A RAPID MONOTONICALLY CONVERGENT ITERATION ALGORITHM FOR QUANTUM OPTIMAL CONTROL OVER THE EXPECTATION VALUE OF A POSITIVE DEFINITE OPERATOR

Wusheng Zhu;Herschel Albert Rabitz

387
Citations
Practical Approaches To Construct RS-HDMR Component Functions

Genyuan Li;Sheng-Wei Wang;Herschel Rabitz

375
Citations