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

Research Interests

Quantum information processing in nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance systems.

Development of spin control techniques to achieve high-fidelity coherent control.

Benchmarks in large-scale systems.

Quantum simulation towards large-scale quantum systems.

Experimental realization of adiabatic quantum computing model.

Quantum state tomography and process tomography.

Honors and 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

Professional Membership

2014-today Review Editor: Frontiers in Quantum Computing

Selected Publications

 (*: 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).