William K. Wootters

Williams College — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

43h-index51.7kcitations115works0.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Quantum Mechanics and Applications(73), Quantum Information and Cryptography(61), Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture(49), Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics(11), Statistical Mechanics and Entropy(8)

Publications115 total

Interpreting symplectic linear transformations in a two-qubit phase space
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks·2025
The no-cloning theorem
Physics Today·2025· 1 cited
Interpreting symplectic linear transformations in a two-qubit phase space
International Journal of Quantum Information·2024· 1 cited
Interpreting symplectic linear transformations in a two-qubit phase space
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Optimal Information Transfer and the Uniform Measure over Probability Space
Entropy·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
A quantum prediction as a collection of epistemically restricted classical predictions
Quantum·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
A Classical Formulation of Quantum Theory?
Entropy·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Alternatives to standard quantum theory ruled out
Nature·2021· 1 cited
Quantum predictions arising from epistemically restricted classical predictions
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021Open Access
Transition probabilities and transition rates in discrete phase space
Physical review. A/Physical review, A·2020· 4 citedOpen Access
John Wheeler's Course, Theory of Measurement, 1977-1978
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2019
A Classical Interpretation of the Scrooge Distribution
Entropy·2018· 2 citedOpen Access
Quantum Mechanics without Probability Amplitudes
Princeton University Press eBooks·2017
Merging Contradictory Laws: Imagining a Constructive Derivation of Quantum Theory
˜The œfrontiers collection·2016· 1 cited
Does the Boltzmann distribution emerge from a thermal correspondence principle
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2016
Optimal Information Transfer and Real-Vector-Space Quantum Theory
Fundamental theories of physics·2015· 27 cited
Erratum: “States that ‘look the same’ with respect to every basis in a mutually unbiased set” [J. Math. Phys. <b>55</b>, 122206 (2014)]
Journal of Mathematical Physics·2015· 3 cited
The rebit three-tangle and its relation to two-qubit entanglement
Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical·2014· 32 citedOpen Access
Unextendible mutually unbiased bases from Pauli C\classes
Quantum Information and Computation·2014· 10 cited
The ubit model in real-amplitude quantum theory
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2014
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Frequent Co-authors

Charles H. Bennett(7), John A. Smolin(7), Gilles Brassard(6), Richard Jozsa(5), Benjamin Schumacher(5), Asher Peres(4), David P. DiVincenzo(4), Sandu Popescu(4), Wojciech H. Zurek(3), Peter W. Shor(3), Claude Crépeau(2), Barbara M. Terhal(2), Paul Hausladen(2), Michael Westmoreland(2), C. H. Bennett(2), Noah Linden(2), Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay(2), Scott Hill(1), Valerie Coffman(1), Joydip Kundu(1)