activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Detecting vortex motion through spatially correlated nonequilibrium noise

Yifan F. Zhang, Rhine Samajdar, Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Resistive transport near a superconducting phase can arise from the motion of normal-state quasiparticles or that of vortices. The conductivity alone does not distinguish between t…

quant-ph2025

Stability of mixed-state phases under weak decoherence

Yifan F. Zhang, Sarang Gopalakrishnan

We prove that the Gibbs states of classical, and commuting-Pauli, Hamiltonians are stable under weak local decoherence: i.e., we show that the effect of the decoherence can be loca…

quant-ph2025

Classically Sampling Noisy Quantum Circuits in Quasi-Polynomial Time under Approximate Markovianity

Yifan F. Zhang, Su-un Lee, Liang Jiang +1

While quantum computing can accomplish tasks that are classically intractable, the presence of noise may destroy this advantage in the absence of fault tolerance. In this work, we…

quant-ph2025

Conditional Mutual Information and Information-Theoretic Phases of Decohered Gibbs States

Yifan Zhang, Sarang Gopalakrishnan

Classical and quantum Markov networks -- including Gibbs states of commuting local Hamiltonians -- are characterized by the vanishing of conditional mutual information (CMI) betwee…

quant-ph2025

Classical Simulability of Quantum Circuits with Shallow Magic Depth

Yifan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhang

Quantum magic is a necessary resource for quantum computers to be not efficiently simulable by classical computers. Previous results have linked the amount of quantum magic, charac…

quant-ph2024

Characterizing MPS and PEPS Preparable via Measurement and Feedback

Yifan Zhang, Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Georgios Styliaris

Preparing long-range entangled states poses significant challenges for near-term quantum devices. It is known that measurement and feedback (MF) can aid this task by allowing the p…