Analytical Mapping of Materials Science in Quantum Computing using Cite Space

Abstract

Quantum computing is a rapidly growing technology that exploits conventional information theory, computer science, and quantum mechanics principles to address complicated computational problems. The recent breakthroughs in information and communication technologies have yielded profound and intriguing insights into quantum computing research. For more advances in quantum computing, researchers are currently concentrating on exploiting material science in this burgeoning research domain to achieve outperform processing power. Henceforth, a scientometric analysis is undertaken to extract the role of material science in quantum computing by analyzing the published academic bibliometric data using CiteSpace. It appraises the research status quo of the field by analyzing yearly publication growth rate, average citation structure analysis, international research collaboration analysis, most cited publication analysis, and keyword co-occurrence network analysis. It deduced that two-qubit gates, quantum entanglement, and spin fluctuation are the research hotspots. Superconducting qubits and spin-orbit coupling are the current most active research areas in material science assisted-quantum computing research. China, the United States, and Japan are mediating in this field. Furthermore, it offers future research directives and significant clues to researchers for the further diffusion of knowledge in the research domain.