Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John A. Smolin
His two most cited papers in Google Scholar (Bennett, Charles H.; Vincenzo, David P.; Smolin, John A.; Wooters, William K. (1996), "Mixed State Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction", Phys. Rev. A 54: 3824-3851http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v54/i5/p3824_1, and Adriano Barenco, Charles H. Bennett, Richard Cleve, David P. DiVincenzo, Norman Margolus, Peter Shor, Tycho Sleator, John A. Smolin, and Harald Weinfurter(1995), "Elementary gates for quantum computation", Phys. Rev. A 52: 3457 - 3467http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v52/i5/p3457_1, both in Phys Rev A) are cited 2196 and 1388 times, which compares favorably with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen_paradox|Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (5556 citations) and Quantum_teleportation|Teleportation (4519 citations) papers.  His H index as computed from Google Scholar is 28.   The most highly cited paper Bennett, Charles H.; Vincenzo, David P.; Smolin, John A.; Wooters, William K. (1996), "Mixed State Entanglement and Quantum Error Correction", Phys. Rev. A 54: 3824-3851http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v54/i5/p3824_1, is referred to as groundbreaking and the cause of much subsequent research in the Wikipedia article on Entanglement distillation|Entanglement Distillation.  Two extremely highly cited works together with a large number of highly cited works (as reflected by an H-index of 28) unambiguously establish notability according to criterion 1 of .  —Preceding Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned comment added by
— User:Gsbsmith, 14:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
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