2026 Karol Życzkowski: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	60	552	464	2	2	253	15993

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Mathematics

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15993

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mathematics in Poland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mathematics in Poland Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Mathematics in Poland Leader Award
2014 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Karol Życzkowski is affiliated with Jagiellonian University in Poland. Their research focuses primarily on areas within computer science and physics and astronomy, with notable contributions across several subfields.

The main fields of study for this scientist include:

Computer Science
Physics and Astronomy

Significant subfields of study encompass:

Artificial Intelligence
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Mathematical Physics

The core topics of their work involve:

Quantum Information and Cryptography
Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum many-body systems
Quantum chaos and dynamical systems
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
Tensor decomposition and applications

Życzkowski has published extensively in several venues, with frequent publications in the following journals and platforms:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. A/Physical review, A
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical
Quantum
Open Systems & Information Dynamics

Their recent papers include:

Five Open Problems in Quantum Information Theory, 2022, PRX Quantum
Random generators of Markovian evolution: A quantum-classical transition by superdecoherence, 2021, Physical review. E
Quantum Monge-Kantorovich Problem and Transport Distance between Density Matrices, 2022, Physical Review Letters
Isoentangled Mutually Unbiased Bases, Symmetric Quantum Measurements, and Mixed-State Designs, 2020, Physical Review Letters
Encoding Classical Information Into Quantum Resources, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Frequent collaborators of Życzkowski include:

Jakub Czartowski
Grzegorz Rajchel-Mieldzioć
Rafał Bistroń
Michał Eckstein
Wojciech Bruzda

In 2014, Karol Życzkowski was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea, an acknowledgment of their scholarly contributions and standing within the European academic community.

Best Publications

Geometry of Quantum States: Frontmatter

Ingemar Bengtsson;Karol Życzkowski

1797
Citations
Volume of the set of separable states

Karol Życzkowski;Paweł Horodecki;Anna Sanpera;Maciej Lewenstein

1738
Citations
ON MUTUALLY UNBIASED BASES

Thomas Durt;Berthold-Georg Englert;Ingemar Bengtsson;Karol Życzkowski

825
Citations
Scalable noise estimation with random unitary operators

Joseph Emerson;Robert Alicki;Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski

590
Citations
Better late than never: information retrieval from black holes.

Samuel L. Braunstein;Stefano Pirandola;Karol Życzkowski

559
Citations
Dynamics of quantum entanglement

Karol Życzkowski;Paweł Horodecki;Michał Horodecki;Ryszard Horodecki

455
Citations
A Concise Guide to Complex Hadamard Matrices

Wojciech Tadej;Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski

353
Citations
Rényi Extrapolation of Shannon Entropy

Karol Życzkowski

255
Citations
Geometry of entangled states

Marek Kuś;Karol Życzkowski

245
Citations
Experimental simulation of quantum graphs by microwave networks

Oleh Hul;Szymon Bauch;Prot Pakoński;Nazar Savytskyy

232
Citations
Statistical properties of random density matrices

Hans-Jürgen Sommers;Karol Zyczkowski

226
Citations
Truncations of random unitary matrices

Karol Zyczkowski;Hans-Jürgen Sommers

226
Citations
Generating random density matrices

Karol Życzkowski;Karol A. Penson;Ion Nechita;Benoît Collins

212
Citations
On Duality between Quantum Maps and Quantum States

Karol Życzkowski;Ingemar Bengtsson

190
Citations
Absolutely maximally entangled states, combinatorial designs, and multiunitary matrices

Dardo Goyeneche;Daniel Alsina;José I. Latorre;Arnau Riera

182
Citations
Majorization entropic uncertainty relations

Zbigniew Puchała;Zbigniew Puchała;Łukasz Marek Rudnicki;Łukasz Marek Rudnicki;Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski

169
Citations
Strong majorization entropic uncertainty relations

Łukasz Marek Rudnicki;Łukasz Marek Rudnicki;Zbigniew Puchała;Zbigniew Puchała;Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski

167
Citations
Cones of positive maps and their duality relations

Łukasz Skowronek;Erling Størmer;Karol Życzkowski

165
Citations
Genuinely multipartite entangled states and orthogonal arrays

Dardo Goyeneche;Karol Życzkowski

164
Citations
Average fidelity between random quantum states

Karol Życzkowski;Karol Życzkowski;Hans-Jürgen Sommers

160
Citations
Mutually unbiased bases and Hadamard matrices of order six

Ingemar Bengtsson;Wojciech Bruzda;Åsa Ericsson;Jan-Åke Larsson

154
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Benoît Collins Kyoto University

Hans-Jürgen Sommers University of Duisburg-Essen

Stanislaw J. Szarek Case Western Reserve University

Man-Duen Choi University of Toronto

David W. Kribs University of Guelph

Mark Fannes KU Leuven

Elisabeth M. Werner Case Western Reserve University

Geoffrey Grimmett University of Cambridge

Ying-Cheng Lai Arizona State University

Samuel L. Braunstein University of York

External Links

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