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Researcher · Perimeter Institute · Canada

Robert W. Spekkens

Robert W. Spekkens publishes mostly in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Artificial Intelligence and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Quantum Information and Cryptography and Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture.

World rank
#40,667
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#1,206
of 38,960
Works
32
Citations
809
Citations per work
25.3

What does Robert W. Spekkens research?

Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 40.0%Artificial Intelligence: 28.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 6.7%Physiology: 4.4%other fields: 20.0%40%top field
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics40.0%Artificial Intelligence28.9%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics6.7%Physiology4.4%other fields20.0%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics40% of their works
  2. 2Artificial Intelligence29% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics7% of their works
  4. 4Physiology4% of their works
  5. 5Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty2% of their works
  6. 6Genetics2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Robert W. Spekkens's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Entanglement, Quantum Information, Bell Inequality, Decoherence, Cryptography, Quantum, Quantum Algorithms and Quantum Computation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 18 words, with their numbers
  1. Entanglement242 topics
  2. Quantum Information172 topics
  3. Bell Inequality141 topic
  4. Decoherence141 topic
  5. Cryptography101 topic
  6. Quantum101 topic
  7. Quantum Algorithms31 topic
  8. Quantum Computation31 topic
  9. Biofield21 topic
  10. Biophoton21 topic
  11. Long-Range Interactions21 topic
  12. Nonextensive Statistical Mechanics21 topic
  13. Algorithmic Information Theory11 topic
  14. BRCA111 topic
  15. BRCA211 topic
  16. Computability11 topic
  17. Partially Ordered Sets11 topic
  18. Periodic Table11 topic

Where does Robert W. Spekkens work?

Robert W. Spekkens's main affiliation in the publication record is Perimeter Institute, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Robert W. Spekkens have?

Science Explorer counts 32 works and 809 citations for Robert W. Spekkens, ranking #40,667 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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