Welcome to the QUEST Lab!

We are the Quantum Engineering and Simulation Theory (QUEST) Lab in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Our research aims at developing quantum-information-science-inspired algorithms and framework to tackle long-lasting challenges in physical sciences and engineering, with a focus on quantum algorithms and simulation, hybrid discrete-continuous-variable quantum information processing, and quantum engineering.

We are always looking for motivated students and scholars to join us to explore the exciting frontier of quantum information science and engineering! Interested students and scholars are encouraged to contact Prof. Yuan Liu.

News

Jul 22, 2024 The QUEST Lab welcomes visiting undergraduate students, Leonard Li and Lingjun Xiong (GEARS program), and Langxu Bai!
Jul 7, 2024 Our quantum sensing paper Single-shot Quantum Signal Processing Interferometry is accepted to the Quantum Journal!
May 24, 2024 Our paper ARQUIN: Architectures for Multinode Superconducting Quantum Computers is accepted to ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing!
May 5, 2024 The QUEST Lab welcomes new postdoc scholar Dr. Joel Bierman and graduate student Aishwarya Majumdar to join us! We’re also pleased to welcome Master student Manideepika Reddy and undergraduate student Daniel Dong for summer research!
Mar 24, 2024 I will serve as the PC member for QCE24. Please consider to submit your papers there!
Mar 22, 2024 Congratulations to the QUEST Lab to receive the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s QCUP award to use quantum computing hardware time from Quantinuum, IonQ, and Regetti for quantum chemistry simulation!
Mar 4, 2024 Prof. Liu gave an invited talk at APS March Meeting on Opportunities and challenges of bosonic oscillators for quantum computation and information processing in Minneapolis, MN!
Jan 7, 2024 Prof. Liu is teaching a new graduate-level course on Quantum Algorithms for Physical Sciences this semester at NC State! See here for more details.

Selected Publications

2024

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    Hybrid Oscillator-Qubit Quantum Processors: Instruction Set Architectures, Abstract Machine Models, and Applications
    Yuan Liu*, Shraddha Singh*, Kevin C Smith*, Eleanor Crane, John M Martyn, Alec Eickbusch, Alexander Schuckert, Richard D Li, Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Micheline B Soley, and  others
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10381, 2024
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    Single-shot Quantum Signal Processing Interferometry
    Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Gabriel L Mintzer, Isaac L Chuang, and Yuan Liu\(^\dagger\)
    Quantum, 2024

2023

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    Bootstrap Embedding on a Quantum Computer
    Yuan Liu\(^\dagger\), Oinam R Meitei, Zachary E Chin, Arkopal Dutt, Max Tao, Isaac L Chuang, and Troy Van Voorhis\(^\dagger\)
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2023
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    Efficient fully-coherent quantum signal processing algorithms for real-time dynamics simulation
    John M Martyn, Yuan Liu, Zachary E Chin, and Isaac L Chuang
    The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023
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    Error Correction of Quantum Algorithms: Arbitrarily Accurate Recovery Of Noisy Quantum Signal Processing
    Andrew K Tan\(^\dagger\), Yuan Liu\(^\dagger\), Minh C Tran\(^\dagger\), and Isaac L Chuang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.08542, 2023

2021

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    Constructing qudits from infinite-dimensional oscillators by coupling to qubits
    Yuan Liu\(^\dagger\), Jasmine Sinanan-Singh, Matthew T Kearney, Gabriel Mintzer, and Isaac L Chuang
    Physical Review A, 2021

2020

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    Observation of a \(\pi\)-type dipole-bound state in molecular anions
    Dao-Fu Yuan*, Yuan Liu*, Chen-Hui Qian, Yue-Rou Zhang, Brenda M Rubenstein, and Lai-Sheng Wang
    Physical Review Letters, 2020
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    Observation of a symmetry-forbidden excited quadrupole-bound state
    Yuan Liu, Guo-Zhu Zhu, Dao-Fu Yuan, Chen-Hui Qian, Yue-Rou Zhang, Brenda M Rubenstein, and Lai-Sheng Wang
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020

2018

  1. J. Chem. Theory Comput.
    Ab initio finite temperature auxiliary field quantum Monte Carlo
    Yuan Liu, Minsik Cho, and Brenda Rubenstein
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2018