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20182026
most citedProbing the dynamical phase transition with a superconducting quantum simulator

151 citations · 530 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Unitary Designs from Doped Matchgate Circuits

Fabian Ballar Trigueros, Zheng-Hang Sun, Xhek Turkeshi +2

Matchgate circuits realize free-fermion dynamics: they are efficiently classically simulable, yet cannot on their own generate the generic randomness required for universal computa…

quant-ph2025

Many-body delocalization with a two-dimensional 70-qubit superconducting quantum simulator

Tian-Ming Li, Zheng-Hang Sun, Yun-Hao Shi +35

Quantum many-body systems with sufficiently strong disorder can exhibit a non-equilibrium phenomenon, known as the many-body localization (MBL), which is distinct from conventional…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

Characterizing dynamical criticality of many-body localization transitions from the Fock-space perspective

Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang, Jian Cui +2

Characterizing the nature of many-body localization transitions (MBLTs) and their potential critical behaviors has remained a challenging problem. In this work, we study the dynami…

quant-ph2024★ 19 cited

Exploring Hilbert-Space Fragmentation on a Superconducting Processor

Yong-Yi Wang, Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-Hang Sun +22

Isolated interacting quantum systems generally thermalize, yet there are several examples for the breakdown of ergodicity, such as many-body localization and quantum scars. Recentl…

quant-ph2023★ 16 cited

Probing spin hydrodynamics on a superconducting quantum simulator

Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang +20

Characterizing the nature of hydrodynamical transport properties in quantum dynamics provides valuable insights into the fundamental understanding of exotic non-equilibrium phases…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Variational generation of spin squeezing on one-dimensional quantum devices with nearest-neighbor interactions

Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang, Yu-Ran Zhang +2

Efficient preparation of spin-squeezed states is important for quantum-enhanced metrology. Current protocols for generating strong spin squeezing rely on either high dimensionality…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Improving the performance of quantum approximate optimization for preparing non-trivial quantum states without translational symmetry

Zheng-Hang Sun, Yong-Yi Wang, Jian Cui +1

The variational preparation of complex quantum states using the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is of fundamental interest, and becomes a promising application of…

quant-ph2021★ 26 cited

Stark many-body localization transitions in superconducting circuits

Yong-Yi Wang, Zheng-Hang Sun, Heng Fan

Recent numerical and experimental works have revealed a disorder-free many-body localization (MBL) in an interacting system subjecting to a linear potential, known as the Stark MBL…

quant-ph2021★ 52 cited

Metrological characterisation of non-Gaussian entangled states of superconducting qubits

Kai Xu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Zheng-Hang Sun +12

Multipartite entangled states are significant resources for both quantum information processing and quantum metrology. In particular, non-Gaussian entangled states are predicted to…

quant-ph2021

Observation of strong and weak thermalization in a superconducting quantum processor

Fusheng Chen, Zheng-Hang Sun, Ming Gong +22

We experimentally study the ergodic dynamics of a 1D array of 12 superconducting qubits with a transverse field, and identify the regimes of strong and weak thermalization with dif…

quant-ph2021★ 58 cited

Observation of thermalization and information scrambling in a superconducting quantum processor

Qingling Zhu, Zheng-Hang Sun, Ming Gong +22

Understanding various phenomena in non-equilibrium dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems, such as quantum thermalization, information scrambling, and nonergodic dynamics, is…

quant-ph2020★ 14 cited

Quantum information scrambling in the presence of weak and strong thermalization

Zheng-Hang Sun, Jian Cui, Heng Fan

Quantum information scrambling under many-body dynamics is of fundamental interest. The tripartite mutual information can quantify the scrambling via its negative value. Here, we f…

quant-ph2019★ 151 cited

Probing the dynamical phase transition with a superconducting quantum simulator

Kai Xu, Zheng-Hang Sun, Wuxin Liu +9

Non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, which are difficult to study via classical computation, have attracted wide interest. Quantum simulation can provide insights into these…

quant-ph2019★ 133 cited

Observation of energy resolved many-body localization

Qiujiang Guo, Chen Cheng, Zheng-Hang Sun +10

Many-body localization (MBL) describes a quantum phase where an isolated interacting system subject to sufficient disorder displays non-ergodic behavior, evading thermal equilibriu…

cond-mat.str-el2019★ 9 cited

Quench dynamics of entanglement spectrum and topological superconducting phases in a long-range Hamiltonian

Kaixiang Su, Zheng-Hang Sun, Heng Fan

We study the quench dynamics of entanglement spectra in the Kitaev chain with variable-range pairing quantified by power-law decay rate . Considering the post-quench Hamiltonian…

quant-ph2018★ 29 cited

Out-of-time-order correlators and quantum phase transitions in the Rabi and Dicke model

Zheng-Hang Sun, Jia-Qi Cai, Qi-Cheng Tang +2

The out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) is used to study the quantum phase transitions (QPTs) between the normal phase and the superradiant phase in the Rabi and few-body Dicke m…

quant-ph2018★ 2 cited

Diagonal Entropy and Topological Phase Transitions in Extended Kitaev Chains

Hong Qiao, Zheng-Hang Sun, Feng-Xiao Sun +3

We investigate the diagonal entropy for ground states of the extended Kitaev chains with extensive pairing and hopping terms. The systems contain rich topological phases equivalent…

quant-ph2018★ 1 cited

Diagonal entropy in many-body systems: Volume effect and quantum phase transitions

Zhengan Wang, Zheng-Hang Sun, Yu Zeng +4

We investigate the diagonal entropy(DE) of the ground state for quantum many-body systems, including the XY model and the Ising model with next nearest neighbour interactions. We f…