| A single quantum cannot be cloned WK Wootters, WH Zurek Nature 299 (5886), 802-803, 1982 | 7491 | 1982 |
| Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical WH Zurek Reviews of modern physics 75 (3), 715, 2003 | 5142 | 2003 |
| Quantum discord: a measure of the quantumness of correlations H Ollivier, WH Zurek Physical review letters 88 (1), 017901, 2001 | 4411 | 2001 |
| Decoherence and the transition from quantum to classical WH Zurek Physics today 44 (10), 36-44, 1991 | 3849* | 1991 |
| Quantum theory and measurement JA Wheeler, WH Zurek Princeton University Press, 2014 | 3288 | 2014 |
| Pointer basis of quantum apparatus: Into what mixture does the wave packet collapse? WH Zurek Physical review D 24 (6), 1516, 1981 | 2309 | 1981 |
| Cosmological experiments in superfluid helium? WH Zurek Nature 317 (6037), 505-508, 1985 | 2233 | 1985 |
| Environment-induced superselection rules WH Zurek Physical review D 26 (8), 1862, 1982 | 2008 | 1982 |
| Perfect quantum error correcting code R Laflamme, C Miquel, JP Paz, WH Zurek Physical Review Letters 77 (1), 198, 1996 | 1292 | 1996 |
| Cosmological experiments in condensed matter systems WH Zurek Physics Reports 276 (4), 177-221, 1996 | 1173 | 1996 |
| Environment-assisted invariance, entanglement, and probabilities in quantum physics WH Zurek Physical review letters 90 (12), 120404, 2003 | 950 | 2003 |
| Reduction of a wave packet in quantum Brownian motion WG Unruh, WH Zurek Physical Review D 40 (4), 1071, 1989 | 931 | 1989 |
| Dynamics of a quantum phase transition WH Zurek, U Dorner, P Zoller Physical review letters 95 (10), 105701, 2005 | 926 | 2005 |
| Resilient quantum computation E Knill, R Laflamme, WH Zurek Science 279 (5349), 342-345, 1998 | 888 | 1998 |
| Coherent states via decoherence WH Zurek, S Habib, JP Paz Physical Review Letters 70 (9), 1187, 1993 | 867 | 1993 |
| Experimental quantum error correction DG Cory, MD Price, W Maas, E Knill, R Laflamme, WH Zurek, TF Havel, ... Physical Review Letters 81 (10), 2152, 1998 | 792 | 1998 |
| Information distance CH Bennett, P Gács, M Li, PMB Vitányi, WH Zurek IEEE Transactions on information theory 44 (4), 1407-1423, 1998 | 785 | 1998 |
| Quantum darwinism WH Zurek Nature physics 5 (3), 181-188, 2009 | 754 | 2009 |
| Dark halos formed via dissipationless collapse. I-Shapes and alignment of angular momentum MS Warren, PJ Quinn, JK Salmon, WH Zurek Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 399, no. 2, p. 405-425 …, 1992 | 745 | 1992 |
| Complementarity in the double-slit experiment: Quantum nonseparability and a quantitative statement of Bohr's principle WK Wootters, WH Zurek Physical Review D 19 (2), 473, 1979 | 717 | 1979 |
