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20192026
most citedTensorCircuit: a Quantum Software Framework for the NISQ Era

134 citations · 259 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Exactly solvable pair-density wave in topological flat bands from magnetic translation symmetries

Zhengzhi Wu, Zhou-Quan Wan, Steven H. Simon

Pair-density wave (PDW) superconductors are exotic phases in which Cooper pairs carry finite center-of-mass momentum. Despite a variety of theoretical and experimental reports on P…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Quantum Charge-4e Superconductivity and Deconfined Pseudocriticality in the Attractive SU(4) Hubbard Model

Zhou-Quan Wan, Huan Jiang, Xuan Zou +2

Unlike conventional charge-2e superconductors, a charge-4e superconductor exhibits long-range coherence of electron quartets rather than Cooper pairs. Clear zero-temperature realiz…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Removing nodal and support-mismatch pathologies in Variational Monte Carlo via blurred sampling

Zhou-Quan Wan, Roeland Wiersema, Shiwei Zhang

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) is a powerful and fast-growing method for optimizing and evolving parameterized many-body wave functions, especially with modern neural-network quantu…

quant-ph2026

Neural Network Discovery of Paired Wigner Crystals in Artificial Graphene

Conor Smith, Yubo Yang, Zhou-Quan Wan +3

Moiré systems have emerged as an exciting tunable platform for engineering and probing quantum matter. A large number of exotic states have been observed, stimulating intense effor…

quant-ph2026

TensorCircuit-NG: A Universal, Composable, and Scalable Platform for Quantum Computing and Quantum Simulation

Shi-Xin Zhang, Yu-Qin Chen, Weitang Li +22

We present TensorCircuit-NG, a next-generation quantum software platform designed to bridge the gap between quantum physics, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing…

cond-mat.stat-mech2025★ 2 cited

Revisiting Nishimori multicriticality through the lens of information measures

Zhou-Quan Wan, Xu-Dong Dai, Guo-Yi Zhu

The quantum error correction threshold is closely related to the Nishimori physics of random statistical models. We extend quantum information measures such as coherent information…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Emergence of charge- superconductivity from 2D nematic superconductors

Xuan Zou, Zhou-Quan Wan, Hong Yao

Charge- superconductivity is an exotic state of matter that may emerge as a vestigial order from a charge- superconductor with multicomponent superconducting order paramete…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Emergent spacetime supersymmetry at 2D fractionalized quantum criticality

Zhengzhi Wu, Zhou-Quan Wan, Shao-Kai Jian +1

While experimental evidence for spacetime supersymmetry (SUSY) in particle physics remains elusive, condensed matter systems offer a promising arena for its emergence at quantum cr…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Neural Network-Augmented Pfaffian Wave-functions for Scalable Simulations of Interacting Fermions

Ao Chen, Zhou-Quan Wan, Anirvan Sengupta +2

Developing accurate numerical methods for strongly interacting fermions is crucial for improving our understanding of various quantum many-body phenomena, especially unconventional…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Addressing the Infinite Variance Problem in Fermionic Monte Carlo Simulations: Retrospective Error Remediation and the Exact Bridge Link Method

Zhou-Quan Wan, Shiwei Zhang

We revisit the infinite variance problem in fermionic Monte Carlo simulations, which is widely encountered in areas ranging from condensed matter to nuclear and high-energy physics…

cond-mat.str-el2024

Pfaffian quantum Monte Carlo: solution to Majorana sign ambiguity and applications

Ze-Yao Han, Zhou-Quan Wan, Hong Yao

Determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC), formulated in complex-fermion representation, has played a key role in studying strongly-correlated fermion systems. However, its applicabil…

cond-mat.str-el2022

Asymptotic sign free in interacting fermion models

Zi-Xiang Li, Zhou-Quan Wan, Hong Yao

As an intrinsically-unbiased approach, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is of vital importance in understanding correlated phases of matter. Unfortunately, it often suffers notorious sign…

quant-ph2022★ 134 cited

TensorCircuit: a Quantum Software Framework for the NISQ Era

Shi-Xin Zhang, Jonathan Allcock, Zhou-Quan Wan +13

TensorCircuit is an open source quantum circuit simulator based on tensor network contraction, designed for speed, flexibility and code efficiency. Written purely in Python, and bu…

quant-ph2021★ 16 cited

Variational Quantum-Neural Hybrid Error Mitigation

Shi-Xin Zhang, Zhou-Quan Wan, Chang-Yu Hsieh +2

Quantum error mitigation (QEM) is crucial for obtaining reliable results on quantum computers by suppressing quantum noise with moderate resources. It is a key factor for successfu…

quant-ph2021★ 63 cited

Variational Quantum-Neural Hybrid Eigensolver

Shi-Xin Zhang, Zhou-Quan Wan, Chee-Kong Lee +3

The variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is one of the most representative quantum algorithms in the noisy intermediate-size quantum (NISQ) era, and is generally speculated to del…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 16 cited

Mitigating the fermion sign problem by automatic differentiation

Zhou-Quan Wan, Shi-Xin Zhang, Hong Yao

As an intrinsically unbiased method, the quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method is of unique importance in simulating interacting quantum systems. Although the QMC method often suffers f…

physics.comp-ph2019★ 23 cited

Automatic Differentiable Monte Carlo: Theory and Application

Shi-Xin Zhang, Zhou-Quan Wan, Hong Yao

Differentiable programming has emerged as a key programming paradigm empowering rapid developments of deep learning while its applications to important computational methods such a…

math.NA2019★ 4 cited

Automatic Differentiation for Complex Valued SVD

Zhou-Quan Wan, Shi-Xin Zhang

In this note, we report the back propagation formula for complex valued singular value decompositions (SVD). This formula is an important ingredient for a complete automatic differ…