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Wojciech H. Zurek 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 Wojciech H. Zurek sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 325 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wojciech H. Zurek 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 Wojciech H. Zurek sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 97 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his seminal contributions to the theory of quantum decoherence, and his contributions to quantum foundations more generally
  • 2009 - Marian Smoluchowski Medal, Polish Physical Society

Overview

Wojciech H. Zurek is affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. Their research spans several domains within physics and computer science, with a primary focus on quantum mechanics and related fields.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Physics and Astronomy
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, their work addresses specific subfields such as:

  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Zurek's research topics extensively cover:

  • Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Quantum many-body systems
  • Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
  • Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
  • Theoretical and Computational Physics

Frequent co-authors with whom Zurek has collaborated include:

  • Jacek Dziarmaga
  • Bin Yan
  • Marek M. Rams
  • Fumika Suzuki
  • Francis A. Bayocboc

Published work is commonly found in these venues:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review B
  • Science Advances
  • Entropy

Recent published papers include the following:

  • Information Scrambling and Loschmidt Echo, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Quantum phase transition dynamics in the two-dimensional transverse-field Ising model, 2022, Science Advances
  • Eavesdropping on the Decohering Environment: Quantum Darwinism, Amplification, and the Origin of Objective Classical Reality, 2022, Physical Review Letters
  • The SuperFGD Prototype charged particle beam tests, 2020, Journal of Instrumentation
  • Sonic horizons and causality in phase transition dynamics, 2020, Physical Review B

They have also authored a book published by Cambridge University Press titled Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, released in 2025.

Among professional recognitions, Wojciech H. Zurek was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2009 with the citation noting seminal contributions to quantum decoherence and foundations of quantum theory. That same year, Zurek received the Marian Smoluchowski Medal from the Polish Physical Society.

Best Publications

  • A single quantum cannot be cloned

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

  • Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical

    Wojciech Hubert Zurek

  • Quantum discord: a measure of the quantumness of correlations.

    Harold Ollivier;Wojciech H. Zurek

  • Decoherence and the transition from quantum to classical

    Wojciech H. Zurek

  • Quantum theory and measurement

    John Archibald Wheeler;Wojciech Hubert Zurek

  • Pointer Basis of Quantum Apparatus: Into What Mixture Does the Wave Packet Collapse?

    W. H. Zurek

  • Cosmological Experiments in Superfluid Helium

    W. H. Zurek

  • Environment-induced superselection rules

    W. H. Zurek

  • Perfect Quantum Error Correcting Code

    Raymond Laflamme;Cesar Miquel;Juan Pablo Paz;Wojciech Hubert Zurek

  • Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of Information

    Wojciech H. Zurek

  • Cosmological experiments in condensed matter systems

    W.H. Zurek

  • Dynamics of a Quantum Phase Transition

    Wojciech H. Zurek;Uwe Dorner;Peter Zoller

  • Coherent states via decoherence.

    Wojciech H. Zurek;Salman Habib;Juan Pablo Paz

  • Reduction of a wave packet in quantum Brownian motion.

    W. G. Unruh;W. H. Zurek

  • Information distance

    C.H. Bennett;P. Gacs;Ming Li;P.M.B. Vitanyi

  • Resilient Quantum Computation

    Emanuel Knill;Raymond Laflamme;Wojciech H. Zurek

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

    William K. Wootters;Wojciech H. Zurek

  • Experimental Quantum Error Correction

    D. G. Cory;M. D. Price;W. Maas;E. Knill

  • Dark halos formed via dissipationless collapse. I: Shapes and alignment of angular momentum

    Michael S. Warren;Peter J. Quinn;John K. Salmon;Wojciech H. Zurek

  • Perfect Quantum Error Correction Code

    Raymond Laflamme;Cesar Miquel;Juan Pablo Paz;Wojciech Hubert Zurek

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond Laflamme
Raymond Laflamme University of Waterloo
Emanuel Knill
Emanuel Knill National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kip S. Thorne
Kip S. Thorne California Institute of Technology
William K. Wootters
William K. Wootters Williams College
Martin B. Plenio
Martin B. Plenio University of Ulm
Paul M. B. Vitányi
Paul M. B. Vitányi Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett IBM (United States)
Luís M. A. Bettencourt
Luís M. A. Bettencourt University of Chicago
David G. Cory
David G. Cory University of Waterloo
Peter Zoller
Peter Zoller University of Innsbruck

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