Publications

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🔹 Selected papers

† (Co-)Corresponding Author

⭑ Co-first Author

• Direct probing of the simulation complexity of open quantum many-body dynamics †
  L Vilchez-Estevez, A Yosifov, J Sun
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.19959v1

• Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo algorithm †
  Y Zhang, Y Huang, J Sun, D Lv, X Yuan
  Phys. Rev. A 112, 022428 (2025) | arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10431

• On the emergence of quantum memory in non-Markovian dynamics †
  A Yosifov, A Iyer, V Vedral, J Sun
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.21907

• Topological network analysis using a programmable photonic quantum processor †
  S Yu*, J Sun*, Z Li*, E Mer, YK Alwehaibi, O Scholin, G J. Machado, K Chen, A Zhang, RB Patel, Y Dong, Ian A. Walmsley, V Vedral, G Bianconi
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.08157

• Universal quantum computational spectroscopy on a quantum chip
  C Zhai*, J Sun*, J Huang, J Mao, H Bao, S Zhang, Q Gong, V Vedral, X Yuan, JW Wang
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.22418

• 🔹Randomised composite linear-combination-of-unitaries: its role in quantum simulation and observable estimation†
  J Sun, P Zeng
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.15658

• Quantum algorithms for quantum molecular systems: A survey
  Y Zhang, X Zhang, J Sun, H Lin, Y Huang, D Lv, X Yuan
  Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 2025

• Efficient noise tailoring and detection of hypergraph states using Clifford circuits †
  G Park, J Sun, H Jeong
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.12870 | 2025-03-28

• 🔹Simple and high-precision Hamiltonian simulation by compensating Trotter error with linear combination of unitary operations †
  P Zeng, J Sun, L Jiang, Q Zhao
  PRX Quantum 6 (1), 010359 | 2025-01-01

• 🔹Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators †
  J Sun, L Vilchez-Estevez, V Vedral, AT Boothroyd, MS Kim
  Nature Communications 16 (1), 1-13 | 2025-01-01

• 🔹Two measurement bases are asymptotically informationally complete for any pure state tomography †
  T Feng*, T Xiao*, Y Wang, S Pang, F Hanif, X Zhou, Q Zhao, MS Kim, J Sun
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.17061 | 2025-01-25

• Ferromagnetic interlayer coupling in FeSe1−xSx superconductors revealed by inelastic neutron scattering
  M Ma, P Bourges, Y Sidis, J Sun, G Wang, K Iida, K Kamazawa, JT Park, …
  Physical Review B 110 (17), 174503 | 2024-11-01

• 🔹Experimental quantum computational chemistry with optimized unitary coupled cluster ansatz
  S Guo*, J Sun*, H Qian*, M Gong*, Y Zhang, F Chen, Y Ye, Y Wu, S Cao, …, JW Pan
  Nature Physics 20 (8), 1240-1246 | 2024-08-01

• 🔹Purification and correction of quantum channels by commutation-derived quantum filters †
  S Das, J Sun, M Hanks, B Koczor, MS Kim
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20173 | 2024-07-24

• 🔹High-precision and low-depth eigenstate property estimations †
  J Sun, P Zeng, T Gur, MS Kim
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04307 | 2024-06-06

• Weyl metallic state induced by helical magnetic order
  JR Soh, I Sánchez-Ramírez, X Yang, J Sun, I Zivkovic, …, AT Boothroyd
  npj Quantum Materials 9 (1), 7 | 2024-05-15

• Orbital expansion variational quantum eigensolver
  Y Wu, Z Huang, J Sun, X Yuan, JB Wang, D Lv
  Quantum Science and Technology 8 (4), 045030 | 2023-10-01

• Robust and efficient Hamiltonian learning
  W Yu, J Sun, Z Han, X Yuan
  Quantum 7, 1045 | 2023-09-01

• Efficient quantum imaginary time evolution by drifting real-time evolution: An approach with low gate and measurement complexity †
  Y Huang, Y Shao, W Ren, J Sun, D Lv
  Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation 19 (13), 3868-3876 | 2023-07-13

• Ab initio quantum simulation of strongly correlated materials with quantum embedding
  C Cao, J Sun, X Yuan, HS Hu, HQ Pham, D Lv
  npj Computational Materials 9 (1), 78 | 2023-06-15

• A Herculean task: Classical simulation of quantum computers
  X Xu, S Benjamin, J Sun, X Yuan, P Zhang
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.08880 | 2023-02-17

• 🔹Low-depth Hamiltonian simulation by an adaptive product formula †
  ZJ Zhang*, J Sun*, X Yuan, MH Yung
  Physical Review Letters 130 (4), 040601 | 2023-01-27

• Overlapped grouping measurement: A unified framework for measuring quantum states
  B Wu*, J Sun*, Q Huang, X Yuan
  Quantum 7, 896 | 2023-01-15

• 🔹Towards a variational Jordan–Lee–Preskill quantum algorithms †
  J Liu, Z Li, H Zheng, X Yuan, J Sun
  Machine Learning: Science and Technology 3 (4), 045030 | 2022-12-01

• 🔹Perturbative quantum simulation
  J Sun, S Endo, H Lin, P Hayden, V Vedral, X Yuan
  Physical Review Letters 129 (12), 120505 | 2022-09-16

• Exploring quantum many-body systems from the viewpoints of quantum computing and spectroscopy
  J Sun
  University of Oxford | 2022-06-01

• Toward practical quantum embedding simulation of realistic chemical systems on near-term quantum computers
  W Li, Z Huang, C Cao, Y Huang, Z Shuai, X Sun, J Sun, X Yuan, D Lv
  Chemical Science 13 (31), 8953-8962 | 2022-05-15

• Variational algorithms for linear algebra
  X Xu, J Sun, S Endo, Y Li, SC Benjamin, X Yuan
  Science Bulletin 66 (21), 2181-2188 | 2021-11-01

• Experimental quantum state measurement with classical shadows
  T Zhang*, J Sun*, XX Fang, XM Zhang, X Yuan, H Lu
  Physical Review Letters 127 (20), 200501 | 2021-11-15

• Universal quantum algorithmic cooling on a quantum computer †
  P Zeng, J Sun, X Yuan
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.15304 | 2021-09-30

• 🔹Quantum simulation with hybrid tensor networkss †
  X Yuan, J Sun, J Liu, Q Zhao, Y Zhou
  Physical Review Letters 127 (4), 040501 | 2021-07-23

• 🔹Mitigating realistic noise in practical noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices †
  J Sun, X Yuan, T Tsunoda, V Vedral, SC Benjamin, S Endo
  Physical Review Applied 15 (3), 034026 | 2021-03-05

• Variational quantum simulation of general processes
  S Endo, J Sun, Y Li, SC Benjamin, X Yuan
  Physical Review Letters 125 (1), 010501 | 2020-07-02

• Protonation induced high-Tc phases in iron-based superconductors evidenced by NMR and magnetization measurements
  Y Cui, G Zhang, H Li, H Lin, X Zhu, HH Wen, G Wang, J Sun, M Ma, Y Li, …, W Yu Science Bulletin 63 (1), 11-16 | 2018-01-15

Thesis

Exploring quantum many-body systems from the viewpoints of quantum computing and spectroscopy (link)

PhD thesis, Jesus College, University of Oxford

Talks

A few talks can be found below, to be continued…

Quantum computing quantum Monte Carlo, Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML) 2023 (slides)

Ab initio Quantum Simulation of Strongly Correlated Materials with Quantum Embedding, Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning (QTML) 2023 (slides)

Tutorial for 2023 Summer School and Workshop held at the University of Nottingham, “New trends in quantum simulation and computation” (link)

Perturbative quantum simulation, TQC 2023 (video)

Simple and high-precision eigenstate property and eigenenergy estimation, Physics Seminar, University of Oxford (link)

Quantum simulation with hybrid tensor networks’, IOP Publishing Quantum 2020 Conference