News

Oct 4, 2024 Prof. Liu and NC State led team have received a $10.6M award from the U.S. Department of Energy to investigate the utility of hybrid quantum processors (Press Release). Congratulations to the entire team (NC State, Rutgers University, PNNL, LBNL, NASA Ames, UMass Amherst) and we are excited to embark on the journey!
Sep 9, 2024 Prof. Liu is attending IEEE Quantum Week QCE24 from September 15 - 20 in Montreal, Canada. He will also give an invited talk at the Advancing Quantum Computation Beyond Gate-Model (BGM2024) Workshop at the University of Maryland, College Park on October 7!
Aug 20, 2024 The QUEST group welcome Ph.D. students Shariful Islam and Elin Das to join us! We are also glad to host visiting scholar Xi Lu from Zhejiang University!
Aug 19, 2024 Kudos to Prof. Liu for being awarded the seed funding from the Center for Robust Quantum Simulation at the University of Maryland, together with Prof. Victor Albert (UMD and NIST). Excited to explore molecular conical intersections!
Aug 11, 2024 Congratulations to Prof. Liu, Prof. Huiyang Zhou, Prof. Frank Mueller, and the QACTI team, led by Duke University, being selected as one of the five NSF National Quantum Virtual Laboratory pilot projects. We look forward to pushing the boundaries of quantum computing with trapped ions!
Aug 9, 2024 Congratulations to the larger Q4Bio team (qBraid, UChicago, MIT, UW-Madison, NC State) for our paper Quanta-Bind: A quantum computing pipeline for strongly correlated systems for Alzheimer’s disease and also to Prof. Huiyang Zhou and Amey for our paper Error Mitigation of Hamiltonian Simulations from an Analog-based Compiler (SimuQ) being accpeted to IEEE Quantum Week QCE2024!
Aug 2, 2024 Congratulations to Prof. Liu for his tutorial on Hybrid Continuous-Discrete Variable Quantum Computation being accepted to APS joint March-April Meeting in 2025 (Global Physics Summit)! We have a lineup of fantastic speakers from IBM, ETH Zurich, UMass Amherst, and NC State. See you in Anaheim CA, March 2025!
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! See NC State news report for our work.
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.
Nov 22, 2023 Our paper Single-shot quantum signal processing interferometry is posted on arXiv, where we proposed a general algorithmic framework, quantum signal processing interferometry (QSPI), for quantum sensing at the fundamental limits of quantum mechanics, i.e., the Heisenberg sensing limit, by generalizing Ramsey-type interferometry.
Aug 11, 2023 Prof. Liu is attending ACS Fall Meeting 2023 August 13-17 in San Francesco CA, giving a talk on quantum bootstrap embedding at the Quantum Computing for Tackling Challenges in Quantum Chemistry Symposium!
Jul 23, 2023 Prof. Liu gave a talk on quantum advantage in continuous-variable quantum sensing in the Quantum Sensing Gordon Research Seminar/Conference in Les Diablerets, Switzerland!
Apr 24, 2023 Our paper on a perturbative model for noisy quantum signal processing is published on Phys. Rev. A!
Mar 31, 2023 Our paper on quantum bootstrap embedding, where small quantum computers are harnessed to solve large electronic structure problems with quantum advantage, is published on JCTC!
Jan 14, 2023 Our paper on effcient fully-coherent quantum simulation of real-time dynamics is published on J. Chem. Phys.!
Sep 22, 2022 We are awarded the postdoctoral seed funding from the Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage to explore novel ways of simulating molecular vibronic energy transfer using bosonic hardwares, together with experimental colleagues at Yale!
Sep 8, 2021 Our paper on an analytical construction of qudits from infinite-dimensional oscillators is published on Phys. Rev. A and is picked as Editor’s Suggestion!