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William K. Wootters

William K. Wootters

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
43
Citations
71557
World Ranking
5971
National Ranking
1649

William K. Wootters publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 79 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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William K. Wootters D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William K. Wootters sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions on the foundations of quantum mechanics and groundbreaking work in quantum information and communications theory

Overview

William K. Wootters is affiliated with Williams College in the United States and has a research portfolio spanning quantum mechanics, quantum information, and related computational and mathematical fields. Their work integrates theoretical and applied aspects of quantum science, often intersecting with computer science and physics disciplines.

The scholar's research covers a range of main fields including:

  • Computer Science
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, subfields of particular focus include:

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

The thematic concentration of Wootters's work centers on topics such as:

  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Matrix Theory and Algorithms
  • Algebraic and Geometric Analysis
  • Statistical Mechanics and Entropy
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Among the recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Wootters are:

  • "A Classical Formulation of Quantum Theory?" (2022), published in Entropy
  • "Transition probabilities and transition rates in discrete phase space" (2020), published in Physical Review A
  • "A quantum prediction as a collection of epistemically restricted classical predictions" (2022), published in Quantum
  • "Optimal Information Transfer and the Uniform Measure over Probability Space" (2023), published in Entropy
  • "Interpreting symplectic linear transformations in a two-qubit phase space" (2024), published in International Journal of Quantum Information

Co-authorship connections frequently appear with researchers such as:

  • William F. Braasch
  • Wojciech H. Zurek

The primary publication venues where Wootters's work has appeared include:

  • Entropy
  • Physical Review A
  • International Journal of Quantum Information
  • Physics Today
  • Quantum

In 1999, Wootters was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions on the foundations of quantum mechanics and work in quantum information and communications theory.

Best Publications

  • Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen channels

    Charles H. Bennett;Gilles Brassard;Claude Crépeau;Richard Jozsa

  • Entanglement of Formation of an Arbitrary State of Two Qubits

    William K. Wootters

  • Mixed State Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction

    Charles H. Bennett;Charles H. Bennett;Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;David P. DiVincenzo;David P. DiVincenzo;John A. Smolin;John A. Smolin;John A. Smolin;William K. Wootters;William K. Wootters;William K. Wootters

  • A single quantum cannot be cloned

    W. K. Wootters;W. K. Wootters;W. H. Zurek

  • Purification of Noisy Entanglement and Faithful Teleportation via Noisy Channels

    Charles H. Bennett;Gilles Brassard;Sandu Popescu;Benjamin Schumacher

  • Entanglement of a Pair of Quantum Bits

    Scott Hill;William K. Wootters

  • Distributed Entanglement

    Valerie Coffman;Joydip Kundu;William K. Wootters

  • Optimal state-determination by mutually unbiased measurements

    William K Wootters;Brian D Fields

  • Quantum nonlocality without entanglement

    Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;Christopher A. Fuchs;Tal Mor

  • Statistical distance and Hilbert space

    W. K. Wootters

  • Remote State Preparation

    Charles H. Bennett;David P. DiVincenzo;Peter W. Shor;John A. Smolin

  • A Complete Classification of Quantum Ensembles Having a Given Density Matrix

    L Hughston;R Jozsa;W Wootters

  • Complementarity in the double-slit experiment: Quantum nonseparability and a quantitative statement of Bohr's principle

    William K. Wootters;Wojciech H. Zurek

  • A Wigner-function formulation of finite-state quantum mechanics

    William K Wootters;William K Wootters

  • Entanglement of formation and concurrence

    William K. Wootters

  • Classical information capacity of a quantum channel

    Paul Hausladen;Richard Jozsa;Benjamin Schumacher;Michael Westmoreland

  • Evolution without evolution: Dynamics described by stationary observables

    Don N. Page;William K. Wootters

  • Discrete phase space based on finite fields

    Kathleen S. Gibbons;Kathleen S. Gibbons;Matthew J. Hoffman;Matthew J. Hoffman;William K. Wootters

  • Entangled Rings

    Kevin M. O'Connor;William K. Wootters

  • Purification of noisy entanglement and faithful teleportation via noisy channels (vol 76, pg 722, 1996)

    C H Bennett;G Brassard;Sandu Popescu;B Schumacher

  • Teleporting an unknown quantum state via dual classical and EPR channels

    C Bennett;G Brassard;C Crepeau;R Jozsa

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett IBM (United States)
John A. Smolin
John A. Smolin IBM (United States)
Gilles Brassard
Gilles Brassard University of Montreal
David P. DiVincenzo
David P. DiVincenzo RWTH Aachen University
Sandu Popescu
Sandu Popescu University of Bristol
Wojciech H. Zurek
Wojciech H. Zurek Los Alamos National Laboratory
Vlatko Vedral
Vlatko Vedral University of Oxford
Barbara M. Terhal
Barbara M. Terhal Delft University of Technology
Claude Crépeau
Claude Crépeau McGill University

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