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quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

A Scalable, Fast and Programmable Neural Decoder for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation Using Surface Codes

Mengyu Zhang, Xiangyu Ren, Guanglei Xi +6

Quantum error-correcting codes (QECCs) can eliminate the negative effects of quantum noise, the major obstacle to the execution of quantum algorithms. However, realizing practical…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Determination of Molecular Energies via Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution in a Superconducting Qubit System

Zhiwen Zong, Sainan Huai, Tianqi Cai +10

As a valid tool for solving ground state problems, imaginary time evolution (ITE) is widely used in physical and chemical simulations. Different ITE-based algorithms in their quant…

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-ph2022★ 30 cited

Suppressing ZZ Crosstalk of Quantum Computers through Pulse and Scheduling Co-Optimization

Lei Xie, Jidong Zhai, Zhenxing Zhang +3

Noise is a significant obstacle to quantum computing, and crosstalk is one of the most destructive types of noise affecting superconducting qubits. Previous approaches to supp…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Exploiting Different Levels of Parallelism in the Quantum Control Microarchitecture for Superconducting Qubits

Mengyu Zhang, Lei Xie, Zhenxing Zhang +7

As current Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices suffer from decoherence errors, any delay in the instruction execution of quantum control microarchitecture can lead to t…

quant-ph2021★ 37 cited

Shortcuts to Adiabaticity for Open Systems in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics

Zelong Yin, Chunzhen Li, Jonathan Allcock +5

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are powerful quantum control methods, allowing quick evolution into target states of otherwise slow adiabatic dynamics. Such methods have widespread…

quant-ph2020

Spectral Transfer Tensor Method for Non-Markovian Noise Characterization

Yu-Qin Chen, Yi-Cong Zheng, Shengyu Zhang +1

With continuing improvements on the quality of fabricated quantum devices, it becomes increasingly crucial to analyze noisy quantum process in greater details such as characterizin…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Constant depth fault-tolerant Clifford circuits for multi-qubit large block codes

Yi-Cong Zheng, Ching-Yi Lai, Todd A. Brun +1

Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) schemes using large block codes that encode qubits in physical qubits can potentially reduce the resource overhead to a great ex…

quant-ph2019★ 27 cited

Security analysis of practical continuous-variable quantum key distribution systems under laser seeding attack

Yi Zheng, Peng Huang, Anqi Huang +2

Here, we investigate the security of the practical one-way CVQKD and CV-MDI-QKD systems under laser seeding attack. In particular, Eve can inject a suitable light into the laser di…

quant-ph2019★ 1 cited

Non-Markovian Noise Characterization with the Transfer Tensor Method

Yu-Qin Chen, Kai-Li Ma, Yi-Cong Zheng +3

We propose simple protocols for performing quantum noise spectroscopy based on the method of transfer tensor maps (TTM), [Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 110401 (2014)]. The TTM approach is…

quant-ph2019★ 41 cited

Practical security of continuous-variable quantum key distribution with reduced optical attenuation

Yi Zheng, Peng Huang, Anqi Huang +2

In a practical CVQKD system, the optical attenuator can adjust the Gaussian-modulated coherent states and the local oscillator signal to an optimal value for guaranteeing the secur…

quant-ph2018★ 1 cited

Depth reduction for quantum Clifford circuits through Pauli measurements

Yi-Cong Zheng, Ching-Yi Lai, Todd A. Brun +1

Clifford circuits play an important role in quantum computation. Gottesman and Chuang proposed a gate teleportation protocol so that a quantum circuit can be implemented by the tel…

quant-ph2017★ 15 cited

Efficient Preparation of Large Block Code Ancilla States for Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation

Yi-Cong Zheng, Ching-Yi Lai, Todd A. Brun

Fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) schemes that use multi-qubit large block codes can potentially reduce the resource overhead to a great extent. A major obstacle is the req…

quant-ph2017

A digital quantum simulator in the presence of a bath

Yi-Cong Zheng, Hui-Khoon Ng

For a digital quantum simulator (DQS) imitating a target system, we ask the following question: Under what conditions is the simulator dynamics similar to that of the target in the…

quant-ph2016★ 16 cited

Fault-tolerant Preparation of Stabilizer States for Quantum CSS Codes by Classical Error-Correcting Codes

Ching-Yi Lai, Yi-Cong Zheng, Todd A. Brun

Stabilizer states are extensively studied in quantum information theory for their structures based on the Pauli group. Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) stabilizer states are of particu…

quant-ph2015★ 10 cited

Teleportation-based Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation in Multi-qubit Large Block Codes

Todd A. Brun, Yi-Cong Zheng, Kung-Chuan Hsu +2

A major goal for fault-tolerant quantum computation (FTQC) is to reduce the overhead needed for error correction. One approach is to use block codes that encode multiple qubits, wh…

quant-ph2014★ 17 cited

Fault-tolerant Holonomic Quantum Computation in Surface Codes

Yi-Cong Zheng, Todd A. Brun

We show that universal holonomic quantum computation (HQC) can be achieved fault-tolerantly by adiabatically deforming the gapped stabilizer Hamiltonian of the surface code, where…

quant-ph2013★ 13 cited

A Fault-Tolerant Scheme of Holonomic Quantum Computation on Stabilizer Codes with Robustness to Low-weight Thermal Noise

Yi-Cong Zheng, Todd A. Brun

We show an equivalence relation between fault-tolerant circuits for a stabilizer code and fault-tolerant adiabatic processes for holonomic quantum computation (HQC), in the case wh…

quant-ph2011★ 13 cited

Geometric Manipulation of Ensembles of Atoms on Atom Chip for Quantum Computation

Yicong Zheng, Todd A. Brun

We propose a feasible scheme to achieve quantum computation based on geometric manipulation of ensembles of atoms, and analyze it for neutral rubidium atoms magnetically trapped in…