Educational Background

2012 Ph.D. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China

2007 B.Sc. Special Class for Gifted Young University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience

2019.05-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology

2017.07-2019.05, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology 
2016.09-2017.07, Postdoctoral fellow Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Raymond Laflamme and Bei Zeng Group

2012.09-2016.09, Postdoctoral fellow Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Raymond Laflamme Group

2007.09-2012.07, PhD candidate Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Jiangfeng Du Group

Honors & Awards

2020 Pearl River Recruitment Program of Talents (Youth)

2020 Peng Cheng Professor

2018 National 1000-Talent Youth Plan

2017 Overseas High-Caliber Personnel in Shenzhen (Peacock Plan)

2012 CAS Presidential Scholarship

Selected Publication

 (*: equal contributions; †: corresponding author)

1. T. Xin*, L. Y. Che*, C. Xi, A. Singh, X. F. Nie, J. Li†, Y. Dong†, and D. W. Lu†, Experimental Quantum Principal Component Analysis via Parametrized Quantum Circuits, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 110502 (2021).

2. T. Xin*, Y. S. Li*, Y. A. Fan, X. R. Zhu, Y. J. Zhang, X. F. Nie, J. Li†, Q. H. Liu†, and D. W. Lu†, Quantum Phases of Three-Dimensional Chiral Topological Insulators on a Spin Quantum Simulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 090502 (2020). 

3. X. F. Nie*, B. B. Wei*, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, X. Z. Zhao, C. D. Qiu, Y. Tian, Y. L. Ji, X. Tao†, D. W. Lu†, and J. Li†, Experimental Observation of Equilibrium and Dynamical Quantum Phase Transitions via Out-of-Time-Ordered Correlators, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 250601 (2020). 

4. J. Li†, Z. H. Luo, T. Xin, H. Y. Wang, D. Kribs, D. W. Lu†, B. Zeng†, and R. Laflamme, Experimental Implementation of Efficient Quantum Pseudorandomness on a 12-spin System, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 030502 (2019). 

5. K. R. Li, Y. D. Wan, L. Y. Hung, T. Lan, G. L. Long, D. W. Lu† , B. Zeng, and R. Laflamme, Experimental Identification of Non-Abelian Topological Orders on a Quantum Simulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 080502 (2017).