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Publications (77)

quant-ph2016

Simulation of anyonic statistics and its topological path independence using a 7-qubit quantum simulator

Annie Jihyun Park, Emma McKay, Dawei Lu +1

Anyons, quasiparticles living in two-dimensional spaces with exotic exchange statistics, can serve as the fundamental units for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, experim…

quant-ph2017

Quantum Spacetime on a Quantum Simulator

Keren Li, Youning Li, Muxin Han +8

We experimentally simulate the spin networks -- a fundamental description of quantum spacetime at the Planck level. We achieve this by simulating quantum tetrahedra and their inter…

cs.CV2025

MammothModa2: A Unified AR-Diffusion Framework for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Tao Shen, Xin Wan, Taicai Chen +10

Unified multimodal models aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single framework, yet bridging the gap between discrete semantic reasoning and high-fidelity visual…

cs.CV2024

MammothModa: Multi-Modal Large Language Model

Qi She, Junwen Pan, Xin Wan +3

In this report, we introduce MammothModa, yet another multi-modal large language model (MLLM) designed to achieve state-of-the-art performance starting from an elementary baseline.…

quant-ph2011

Quantum Factorization of 143 on a Dipolar-Coupling NMR system

Nanyang Xu, Jing Zhu, Dawei Lu +3

Quantum algorithms could be much faster than classical ones in solving the factoring problem. Adiabatic quantum computation for this is an alternative approach other than Shor's al…

quant-ph2020

Quantum Pure State Tomography via Variational Hybrid Quantum-Classical Method

Tao Xin, Xinfang Nie, Xiangyu Kong +3

To obtain a complete description of a quantum system, one usually employs standard quantum state tomography, which however requires exponential number of measurements to perform an…

quant-ph2025

Stable and High-Precision 3D Positioning via Tunable Composite-Dimensional Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference

Yongqiang Li, Hongfeng Liu, Dawei Lu +1

We propose a stable and high-precision three-dimensional (3D) quantum positioning scheme based on Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. While previous studies have explored HOM interference…

cs.CL2021

Learning Syntactic Dense Embedding with Correlation Graph for Automatic Readability Assessment

Xinying Qiu, Yuan Chen, Hanwu Chen +3

Deep learning models for automatic readability assessment generally discard linguistic features traditionally used in machine learning models for the task. We propose to incorporat…

quant-ph2017

Optimal experiment design for quantum state tomography

Jun Li, Shilin Huang, Zhihuang Luo +3

Quantum state tomography is an indispensable but costly part of many quantum experiments. Typically, it requires measurements to be carried in a number of different settings on a f…

quant-ph2026

Reversing Heat Flow by Coherence in a Multipartite Quantum System

Keyi Huang, Qi Zhang, Xiangjing Liu +12

The second law of thermodynamics dictates that heat flows spontaneously from a high-temperature entity to a lower-temperature one. Yet, recent advances have demonstrated that quant…

quant-ph2023

Practical quantum simulation of small-scale non-Hermitian dynamics

Hongfeng Liu, Xiaodong Yang, Kai Tang +5

Non-Hermitian quantum systems have recently attracted considerable attention due to their exotic properties. Though many experimental realizations of non-Hermitian systems have bee…

quant-ph2022

Measuring Quantum Entanglement from Local Information by Machine Learning

Yulei Huang, Liangyu Che, Chao Wei +5

Entanglement is a key property in the development of quantum technologies and in the study of quantum many-body simulations. However, entanglement measurement typically requires qu…

quant-ph2016

Experimental violation of the Leggett-Garg inequality in a 3-level system

Hemant Katiyar, Aharon Brodutch, Dawei Lu +1

The Leggett-Garg (LG) test of macroscopic realism involves a series of dichotomic non-invasive measurements that are used to calculate a function which has a fixed upper bound for…

quant-ph2025

Noise-Resilient Quantum Metrology with Quantum Computing

Xiangyu Wang, Chenrong Liu, Xue Lin +8

Quantum computing has made remarkable strides in recent years, as demonstrated by quantum supremacy experiments and the realization of high-fidelity, fault-tolerant gates. However,…

quant-ph2024

Experimental demonstration of quantum causal inference via noninvasive measurements

Hongfeng Liu, Xiangjing Liu, Qian Chen +5

We probe the foundations of causal structure inference experimentally. The causal structure concerns which events influence other events. We probe whether causal structure can be d…

quant-ph2022

Online optimization for optical readout of a single electron spin in diamond

Xue Lin, Jingwei Fan, Runchuan Ye +4

The nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center in diamond has been developed as a promising platform for quantum sensing, especially for magnetic field measurements in the nano-tesla range with…

quant-ph2020

Learning Quantum Hamiltonians from Single-qubit Measurements

Liangyu Che, Chao Wei, Yulei Huang +6

It is natural to measure the observables from the Hamiltonian-based quantum dynamics, and its inverse process that Hamiltonians are estimated from the measured data also is a vital…

quant-ph2019

Measuring Holographic Entanglement Entropy on a Quantum Simulator

Keren Li, Muxin Han, Dongxue Qu +6

Quantum simulation promises to have wide applications in many fields where problems are hard to model with classical computers. Various quantum devices of different platforms have…

quant-ph2016

Quantum State and Process Tomography via Adaptive Measurements

Hengyan Wang, Wenqiang Zheng, Nengkun Yu +9

We investigate quantum state tomography (QST) for pure states and quantum process tomography (QPT) for unitary channels via measurements. For a quantum system with a

cond-mat.str-el2017

Experimental Identification of Non-Abelian Topological Orders on a Quantum Simulator

Keren Li, Yidun Wan, Ling-Yan Hung +5

Topological orders can be used as media for topological quantum computing --- a promising quantum computation model due to its invulnerability against local errors. Conversely, a q…

quant-ph2017

Experimentally superposing two pure states with partial prior knowledge

Keren Li, Guofei Long, Hemant Katiyar +4

Superposition, arguably the most fundamental property of quantum mechanics, lies at the heart of quantum information science. However, how to create the superposition of any two un…

quant-ph2021

SpinQ Gemini: a desktop quantum computer for education and research

Shi-Yao Hou, Guanru Feng, Zipeng Wu +13

SpinQ Gemini is a commercial desktop quantum computer designed and manufactured by SpinQ Technology. It is an integrated hardware-software system. The first generation product with…

quant-ph2025

Neural quantum embedding via deterministic quantum computation with one qubit

Hongfeng Liu, Tak Hur, Shitao Zhang +10

Quantum computing is expected to provide exponential speedup in machine learning. However, optimizing the data loading process, commonly referred to as quantum data embedding, to m…

eess.IV2025

MetaFE-DE: Learning Meta Feature Embedding for Depth Estimation from Monocular Endoscopic Images

Dawei Lu, Deqiang Xiao, Danni Ai +7

Depth estimation from monocular endoscopic images presents significant challenges due to the complexity of endoscopic surgery, such as irregular shapes of human soft tissues, as we…

quant-ph2025

Realizing Universal Non-Markovian Noise Suppression

Hongfeng Liu, Zizhao Han, Xinfang Nie +2

Non-Markovian noise, arising from environmental memory effects, is the most general and challenging form of noise in quantum computing, and is typically difficult to characterize a…

quant-ph2023

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers

Bin Cheng, Xiu-Hao Deng, Xiu Gu +18

Quantum computers have made extraordinary progress over the past decade, and significant milestones have been achieved along the path of pursuing universal fault-tolerant quantum c…

quant-ph2024

Velocity Scanning Tomography for Room-Temperature Quantum Simulation

Jiefei Wang, Ruosong Mao, Xingqi Xu +9

Quantum simulation offers an analog approach for exploring exotic quantum phenomena using controllable platforms, typically necessitating ultracold temperatures to maintain the qua…

quant-ph2024

Direct Readout of Nitrogen-Vacancy Hybrid-Spin Quantum Register in Diamond by Photon Arrival Time Analysis

Jingyan He, Yu Tian, Zhiyi Hu +4

Quantum state readout plays a pivotal role in quantum technologies, spanning applications in sensing, computation, and secure communication. In this work, we introduce a new approa…

quant-ph2019

Experimental Observation of Equilibrium and Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions via Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators

Xinfang Nie, Bo-Bo Wei, Xi Chen +8

The out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) have been established as a fundamental concept for quantifying quantum information scrambling and diagnosing quantum chaotic behavior. Re…

quant-ph2015

NMR quantum information processing

Dawei Lu, Aharon Brodutch, Jihyun Park +3

Quantum computing exploits fundamentally new models of computation based on quantum mechanical properties instead of classical physics, and it is believed that quantum computers ar…

quant-ph2026

Experimental realization of quantum Zeno dynamics for robust quantum metrology

Ran Liu, Xiaodong Yang, Xiang Lv +5

Quantum Zeno dynamics (QZD), which restricts the system's evolution to a protected subspace, provides a promising approach for protecting quantum information from noise. Here, we e…

quant-ph2024

Experimental Realization of Self-Contained Quantum Refrigeration

Keyi Huang, Cheng Xi, Xinyue Long +7

A fundamental challenge in quantum thermodynamics is the exploration of inherent dimensional constraints in thermodynamic machines. In the context of two-level systems, the most co…

quant-ph2018

Experimental Implementation of Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness on a 12-spin System

Jun Li, Zhihuang Luo, Tao Xin +5

Quantum pseudorandomness, also known as unitary designs, comprise a powerful resource for quantum computation and quantum engineering. While it is known in theory that pseudorandom…

quant-ph2022

Experimental realization of a topologically protected Hadamard gate via braiding Fibonacci anyons

Yu-ang Fan, Yingcheng Li, Yuting Hu +9

Topological quantum computation (TQC) is one of the most striking architectures that can realize fault-tolerant quantum computers. In TQC, the logical space and the quantum gates a…

quant-ph2011

Simulation of chemical reaction dynamics on an NMR quantum computer

Dawei Lu, Nanyang Xu, Ruixue Xu +4

Quantum simulation can beat current classical computers with minimally a few tens of qubits and will likely become the first practical use of a quantum computer. One promising appl…

quant-ph2018

Gradient-based closed-loop quantum optimal control in a solid-state two-qubit system

Guanru Feng, Franklin H. Cho, Hemant Katiyar +4

Quantum optimal control can play a crucial role to realize a set of universal quantum logic gates with error rates below the threshold required for fault-tolerance. Open-loop quant…

quant-ph2024

Quantum causal inference via scattering circuits in NMR

Hongfeng Liu, Xiangjing Liu, Qian Chen +5

We report NMR scattering circuit experiments that reveal causal structure. The scattering circuit involves interacting a probe qubit with the system of interest and finally measuri…

quant-ph2022

Experimental quantum simulation of non-Hermitian dynamical topological states using stochastic Schrödinger equation

Zidong Lin, Lin Zhang, Xinyue Long +8

Noise is ubiquitous in real quantum systems, leading to non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, and may affect the fundamental states of matter. Here we report in experiment a quantum simu…

quant-ph2017

A Separability-Entanglement Classifier via Machine Learning

Sirui Lu, Shilin Huang, Keren Li +7

The problem of determining whether a given quantum state is entangled lies at the heart of quantum information processing, which is known to be an NP-hard problem in general. Despi…

quant-ph2024

Self-Consistent Determination of Single-Impurity Anderson Model Using Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach on a Spin Quantum Simulator

Xinfang Nie, Xuanran Zhu, Yu-ang Fan +9

The accurate determination of the electronic structure of strongly correlated materials using first principle methods is of paramount importance in condensed matter physics, comput…

quant-ph2016

Estimating the coherence of noise in quantum control of a solid-state qubit

Guanru Feng, Joel J. Wallman, Brandon Buonacorsi +6

To exploit a given physical system for quantum information processing, it is critical to understand the different types of noise affecting quantum control. Distinguishing coherent…

quant-ph2019

Pulse-width-induced polarization enhancement of optically-pumped N-V electron spin in diamond

Yumeng Song, Yu Tian, Zhiyi Hu +7

The nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) center in diamond is a widely-used platform for quantum information processing and metrology. The electron-spin state of N-V center could be initialized…

quant-ph2020

Experimental Detection of the Quantum Phases of a Three-Dimensional Topological Insulator on a Spin Quantum Simulator

Tao Xin, Yishan Li, Yu-ang Fan +6

The detection of topological phases of matter becomes a central issue in recent years. Conventionally, the realization of a specific topological phase in condensed matter physics r…

quant-ph2019

Quantum Simulation of the Non-Fermi-Liquid State of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model

Zhihuang Luo, Yi-Zhuang You, Jun Li +5

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model incorporates rich physics, ranging from exotic non-Fermi liquid states without quasiparticle excitations, to holographic duality and quantum chaos…

quant-ph2009

Implementation of a Quantum-simulation Algorithm of Calculating Molecular Ground-state Energy on an NMR Quantum Computer

Jiangfeng Du, Nanyang Xu, Xinhua Peng +3

It is exponentially hard to simulate quantum systems by classical algorithms, while quantum computer could in principle solve this problem polynomially. We demonstrate such an quan…

quant-ph2017

NMRCloudQ: A Quantum Cloud Experience on a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Computer

Tao Xin, Shilin Huang, Sirui Lu +7

As of today, no one can tell when a universal quantum computer with thousands of logical quantum bits (qubits) will be built. At present, most quantum computer prototypes involve l…

quant-ph2022

Experimental Realization of a Quantum Refrigerator Driven by Indefinite Causal Orders

Xinfang Nie, Xuanran Zhu, Keyi Huang +11

Indefinite causal order (ICO) is playing a key role in recent quantum technologies. Here, we experimentally study quantum thermodynamics driven by ICO on nuclear spins using the nu…

quant-ph2011

NMR Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Quantum Cloning

Hongwei Chen, Dawei Lu, Bo Chong +4

The method of quantum cloning is divided into two main categories: approximate and probabilistic quantum cloning. The former method is used to approximate an unknown quantum state…

quant-ph2022

Improved Quantum Computing with the Higher-order Trotter Decomposition

Xiaodong Yang, Xinfang Nie, Yunlan Ji +3

In designing quantum control, it is generally required to simulate the controlled system evolution with a classical computer. However, computing the time evolution operator can be…

quant-ph2022

Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Metrology in Colored Noise by Quantum Zeno Effect

Xinyue Long, Wan-Ting He, Na-Na Zhang +9

In open quantum systems, the precision of metrology inevitably suffers from the noise. {In Markovian open quantum dynamics, the precision can not be improved by using entangled pro…

quant-ph2019

Detecting scrambling via statistical correlations between randomized measurements on an NMR quantum simulator

Xinfang Nie, Ze Zhang, Xiuzhu Zhao +3

Out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC), been suggested as a measure of quantum information scrambling in quantum many-body systems, has received enormous attention recently. The exper…

quant-ph2022

Quantum Control for Time-dependent Noise by Inverse Geometric Optimization

Xiaodong Yang, Xinfang Nie, Tao Xin +2

Quantum systems are exceedingly difficult to engineer because they are sensitive to various types of noises. In particular, time-dependent noises are frequently encountered in expe…

quant-ph2024

Certifying Quantum Temporal Correlation via Randomized Measurements: Theory and Experiment

Hongfeng Liu, Zhenhuan Liu, Shu Chen +3

We consider the certification of temporal quantum correlations using the pseudo-density matrix (PDM), an extension of the density matrix to the time domain, where negative eigenval…

math.HO2018

Frequency of Rational Fractions on [0, 1]

Zongwei Zhou, Dawei Lu

In this paper, the authors design a trial to count rational ratios on the interval [0, 1], and plot a normalized frequency statistical graph. Patterns, symmetry and co-linear prope…

quant-ph2011

Solving Quantum Ground-State Problems with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Zhaokai Li, Man-Hong Yung, Hongwei Chen +5

Quantum ground-state problems are computationally hard problems; for general many-body Hamiltonians, there is no classical or quantum algorithm known to be able to solve them effic…

quant-ph2024

Experimental Validation of Enhanced Information Capacity by Quantum Switch in Accordance with Thermodynamic Laws

Cheng Xi, Xiangjing Liu, Hongfeng Liu +6

We experimentally probe the interplay of the quantum switch with the laws of thermodynamics. The quantum switch places two channels in a superposition of orders and may be applied…

quant-ph2023

Quantum computing: principles and applications

Guanru Feng, Dawei Lu, Jun Li +2

People are witnessing quantum computing revolutions nowadays. Progress in the number of qubits, coherence times and gate fidelities are happening. Although quantum error correction…

quant-ph2016

Pure State Tomography with Pauli Measurements

Xian Ma, Tyler Jackson, Hui Zhou +10

We examine the problem of finding the minimum number of Pauli measurements needed to uniquely determine an arbitrary -qubit pure state among all quantum states. We show that onl…

quant-ph2022

Preserving Entanglement in a Solid-Spin System Using Quantum Autoencoders

Feifei Zhou, Yu Tian, Yumeng Song +6

Entanglement, as a key resource for modern quantum technologies, is extremely fragile due to the decoherence. Here, we show that a quantum autoencoder, which is trained to compress…

quant-ph2024

Multiple Classical Noise Mitigation by Multiobjective Robust Quantum Optimal Control

Bowen Shao, Xiaodong Yang, Ran Liu +4

High-quality control is a fundamental requirement for quantum computation, but practically it is often hampered by the presence of various types of noises, which can be static or t…

quant-ph2017

Enhancing quantum control by bootstrapping a quantum processor of 12 qubits

Dawei Lu, Keren Li, Jun Li +10

Accurate and efficient control of quantum systems is one of the central challenges for quantum information processing. Current state-of-the-art experiments rarely go beyond 10 qubi…

quant-ph2019

Optimal Bounds on State Transfer Under Quantum Channels with Application to Spin System Engineering

Wenqiang Zheng, Hengyan Wang, Tao Xin +3

Modern applications of quantum control in quantum information science and technology require the precise characterization of quantum states and quantum channels. In particular, hig…

quant-ph2019

Local-measurement-based quantum state tomography via neural networks

Tao Xin, Sirui Lu, Ningping Cao +5

Quantum state tomography is a daunting challenge of experimental quantum computing even in moderate system size. One way to boost the efficiency of state tomography is via local me…

q-fin.MF2022

Pricing Stocks with Trading Volumes

Ben Duan, Yutian Li, Dawei Lu +2

The present paper proposes a new framework for describing the stock price dynamics. In the traditional geometric Brownian motion model and its variants, volatility plays a vital ro…

quant-ph2025

Experimental Virtual Quantum Broadcasting

Yuxuan Zheng, Xinfang Nie, Hongfeng Liu +3

The quantum no-broadcasting theorem states that it is fundamentally impossible to perfectly replicate an arbitrary quantum state, even if correlations between the copies are allowe…

quant-ph2018

A Quantum Algorithm for Solving Linear Differential Equations: Theory and Experiment

Tao Xin, Shijie Wei, Jianlian Cui +7

We present and experimentally realize a quantum algorithm for efficiently solving the following problem: given an matrix , an -dimensional vector $\text…

quant-ph2014

Experimental realization of post-selected weak measurements on an NMR quantum processor

Dawei Lu, Aharon Brodutch, Jun Li +2

The ability to post-select the outcomes of an experiment is a useful theoretical concept and experimental tool. In the context of weak measurements post-selection can lead to surpr…

quant-ph2022

Observation of a symmetry-protected topological phase in external magnetic fields

Zhihuang Luo, Wenzhao Zhang, Xinfang Nie +1

Topological phases have greatly improved our understanding of modern conception of phases of matter that go beyond the paradigm of symmetry breaking and are not described by local…

quant-ph2020

Dynamical-Invariant-based Holonomic Quantum Gates: Theory and Experiment

Yingcheng Li, Tao Xin, Chudan Qiu +5

Among existing approaches to holonomic quantum computing, the adiabatic holonomic quantum gates (HQGs) suffer errors due to decoherence, while the non-adiabatic HQGs either require…

quant-ph2015

Approximation of Reachable Set for Coherently Controlled Open Quantum Systems: Application to Quantum State Engineering

Jun Li, Dawei Lu, Zhihuang Luo +3

Precisely characterizing and controlling realistic open quantum systems is one of the most challenging and exciting frontiers in quantum sciences and technologies. In this Letter,…

quant-ph2025

Strain Enhanced Spin Readout Contrast in Silicon Carbide Membranes

Haibo Hu, Guodong Bian, Ailun Yi +12

Quantum defects in solids have emerged as a transformative platform for advancing quantum technologies. A key requirement for these applications is achieving high-fidelity single-s…

quant-ph2016

Quantum state tomography via reduced density matrices

Tao Xin, Dawei Lu, Joel Klassen +7

Quantum state tomography via local measurements is an efficient tool for characterizing quantum states. However it requires that the original global state be uniquely determined (U…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Experimental observation of dynamical bulk-surface correspondence for topological phases

Ya Wang, Wentao Ji, Zihua Chai +12

We experimentally demonstrate a dynamical classification approach for investigation of topological quantum phases using a solid-state spin system through nitrogen-vacancy (NV) cent…

quant-ph2014

Experimental Estimation of Average Fidelity of a Clifford Gate on a 7-qubit Quantum Processor

Dawei Lu, Hang Li, Denis-Alexandre Trottier +8

Quantum gates in experiment are inherently prone to errors that need to be characterized before they can be corrected. Full characterization via quantum process tomography is impra…

quant-ph2025

Recovering optimal precision in quantum sensing with time domain imperfections

Zi-Shen Li, Xinyue Long, Xiaodong Yang +2

Quantum control plays a crucial role in enhancing precision scaling for quantum sensing. However, most existing protocols require perfect control, even though real-world devices in…

quant-ph2023

Control-enhanced quantum metrology under Markovian noise

Yue Zhai, Xiaodong Yang, Kai Tang +5

Quantum metrology is supposed to significantly improve the precision of parameter estimation by utilizing suitable quantum resources. However, the predicted precision can be severe…

quant-ph2015

Tomography is necessary for universal entanglement detection with single-copy observables

Dawei Lu, Tao Xin, Nengkun Yu +7

Entanglement, one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics, plays an essential role in numerous applications of quantum information theory. A natural question of both theoreti…