About
I am a Phillip Griffiths Assistant Research Professor at Duke University (jointly hosted by Di Fang and Yu Tong).
Before this, I was a Senior Quantum Research Associate at J.P. Morgan Chase. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgetown University in 2024, advised by Justin Thaler. Earlier, I completed an M.S. in Physics at Rutgers University and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics at Arizona State University.
Teaching
Publications
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High-order Magnus Expansion for Hamiltonian Simulation
arXiv -
Block Encoding with Low Gate Count for
Second Quantized Hamiltonian
QSim slides -
State-space Gradient Descent and Metastability in Quantum
Systems
arXiv -
Synthesis of Single Qutrit Circuits from Clifford+R
arXiv · slides -
Generalized Short Path Algorithms: Towards Super-Quadratic
Speedup over Markov Chain Search for Combinatorial Optimization
arXiv -
A Unified Architecture for Quantum Lookup Tables
arXiv · slides -
Primitive Quantum Gates for an SU(3) Discrete Subgroup
arXiv · PRD -
Quantum Algorithm for Ground State Energy Estimation Using
Circuit Depth with Exponentially Improved Dependence on
Precision
arXiv · Quantum -
Gluon Digitization via Character Expansion for Quantum
Computers
arXiv · PRD · QIP 2022 poster -
Gluon Field Digitization via Group Space Decimation for Quantum
Computers
arXiv · PRD · slides -
Improved Approximate Degree Bounds for k-distinctness
arXiv · TQC · TQC slides · TQC talk -
Theory of Trotter Error with Commutator Scaling
arXiv · PRX -
Short and Long Range Population Dynamics of the Monarch
arXiv · poster
Notes
Contact
Email: shuchen.zhu@duke.edu