publications

2026

1. Scalable quantum dynamics compilation via quantum machine learning

   Yuxuan Zhang, Roeland Wiersema, Juan Carrasquilla, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review Research, 2026

   arXiv
2. Biorthogonal Neural Network Approach to Two-Dimensional Non-Hermitian Systems

   Massimo Solinas, Brandon Barton, Yuxuan Zhang, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review Letters, 2026

   arXiv

2025

1. Probing mixed-state phases on a quantum computer via Renyi correlators and variational decoding

   Yuxuan Zhang, Timothy H Hsieh, Yong Baek Kim, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02900, 2025
2. Mixed-state phase transitions in spin-Holstein models

   Brett Min, Yuxuan Zhang, Yuxuan Guo, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review B, 2025
3. Classical Simulability of Quantum Circuits with Shallow Magic Depth

   Yifan Zhang, and Yuxuan Zhang

   PRX Quantum, 2025

   arXiv
4. Observation of a non-Hermitian supersonic mode on a trapped-ion quantum computer

   Yuxuan Zhang, Juan Carrasquilla, and Yong Baek Kim

   Nature Communications, 2025
5. Heuristic Quantum Advantage with Peaked Circuits

   Hrant Gharibyan, Mohammed Zuhair Mullath, Nicholas E Sherman, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.25838, 2025
6. Complexity and hardness of random peaked circuits

   Yuxuan Zhang

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.00132, 2025
7. Circuit compression for 2D quantum dynamics

   Matteo D’Anna, Yuxuan Zhang, Roeland Wiersema, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.01883, 2025
8. Evaluating Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

   Z. Song, Yuxuan Zhang, and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.15567, 2025

2024

1. Sequential quantum simulation of spin chains with a single circuit QED device

   Yuxuan Zhang, Shahin Jahanbani, Ameya Riswadkar, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review A, 2024
2. Possibility of entanglement of purification to be less than half of the reflected entropy

   Josiah Couch, Phuc Nguyen, Sarah Racz, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review A, 2024
3. On verifiable quantum advantage with peaked circuit sampling

   Scott Aaronson, and Yuxuan Zhang

   Apr 2024

2023

1. Quantum Volume for Photonic Quantum Processors

   Yuxuan Zhang, Daoheng Niu, Alireza Shabani, and 1 more author

   Physical Review Letters, Apr 2023
2. All-photonic one-way quantum repeaters

   Daoheng Niu, Yuxuan Zhang, Alireza Shabani, and 1 more author

   npj Quantum Information, Apr 2023

   arXiv
3. Holographic quantum simulation of entanglement renormalization circuits

   Sajant Anand, Johannes Hauschild, Yuxuan Zhang, and 2 more authors

   PRX Quantum, Apr 2023
4. Benchmarks for near-term photonic quantum processors

   Yuxuan Zhang, Daoheng Niu, Alireza Shabani, and 1 more author

   In CLEO 2023, Apr 2023

   Abs

   We present a framework to efficiently simulate noisy measurement-based photonic quantum processors and characterize their computing power in terms of well-known metrics such as the quantum volume. We present our results for the GKP cluster states.

2022

1. Holographic simulation of correlated electrons on a trapped-ion quantum processor

   Daoheng Niu, Reza Haghshenas, Yuxuan Zhang, and 3 more authors

   PRX Quantum, Apr 2022
2. Qubit-efficient simulation of thermal states with quantum tensor networks

   Yuxuan Zhang, Shahin Jahanbani, Daoheng Niu, and 2 more authors

   Physical Review B, Apr 2022
3. Straddling-gates problem in multipartite quantum systems

   Yuxuan Zhang

   Physical Review A, Apr 2022

2021

1. QED driven QAOA for network-flow optimization

   Yuxuan Zhang, Ruizhe Zhang, and Andrew C Potter

   Quantum, Apr 2021

2018

1. CEPC Conceptual Design Report: Volume 2-Physics & Detector

   CEPC Study Group, and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.10545, Apr 2018
2. CEPC conceptual design report: Volume 1-accelerator

   CEPC Study Group, and  others

   arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00285, Apr 2018