Qi Zhao

Dr. Qi Zhao is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the University of Hongkong (HKU).

His research interests include quantum simulation, quanutm computing, resource theory, self-testing quantum information, and entanglement detection.

He is interested in any fundamental problem in quantum information, and the practical applications of quantum computers.

Selected Publications

• Q. Zhao, Y. Zhou, A. F. Shaw, T. Li, and A. M. Childs, Hamiltonian simulation with random inputs, arXiv:2111.04773 (2021), QIP 2022 contributed talk
• D. Wu, Q. Zhao*, X.-M. Gu, H.-S. Zhong, Y. Zhou, L.-C. Peng, J. Qin, Y.-H. Luo, K. Chen, L. Li, N.-L. Liu, C.-Y. Lu, and J.-W. Pan, Robust self-testing of multiparticle entanglement, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 127, p. 230503, Dec. 2021
• Q. Zhao and X. Yuan, Exploiting anticommutation in Hamiltonian simulation, Quantum, vol. 5, p.534, Aug. 2021
• X. Yuan, J. Sun, J. Liu, Q. Zhao, and Y. Zhou, Quantum simulation with hybrid tensor networks, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 127, p. 040501, Jul 2021.
• Z.-D. Li, Q. Zhao*, R. Zhang, L.-Z. Liu, X.-F. Yin, X. Zhang, Y.-Y. Fei, K. Chen, N.-L. Liu, F. Xu, Y.-A. Chen, L. Li, and J.-W. Pan, Measurement-device-independent entanglement witness of tripartite entangled states and its applications, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 124, p. 160503, Apr 2020.
• Q. Zhao, Y. Liu, X. Yuan, E. Chitambar, and A.Winter, One-shot coherence distillation: Towards completing the picture, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 6441–6453, 2019.
• Q. Zhao, G. Wang, X. Yuan, and X. Ma, Efficient and robust detection of multipartite greenberger-horne-zeilinger-like states, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 99, p. 052349, May 2019.
• Y. Zhou, Q. Zhao, X. Yuan, and X. Ma, Detecting multipartite entanglement structure with minimal resources, npj Quantum Information, vol. 5, p. 83, 2019.
• Y. Liu, Q. Zhao, M.-H. Li, J.-Y. Guan, Y. Zhang, B. Bai, W. Zhang, W.-Z. Liu, C. Wu, X. Yuan, H. Li, W. J. Munro, Z. Wang, L. You, J. Zhang, X. Ma, J. Fan, Q. Zhang, and J.-W. Pan, Device-independent quantum random-number generation, Nature, vol. 562, no. 7728, p. 548, 2018.
• H. Lu, Q. Zhao*, Z-D. Li, X.-F. Yin, X. Yuan, J.-C. Hung, L.-K. Chen, L. Li, N.-L. Liu, C.-Z. Peng, Y.-C. Liang, X. Ma, Y.-A. Chen, and J.-W. Pan, Entanglement structure: Entanglement partitioning in multipartite systems and its experimental detection using optimizable witnesses, Phys. Rev. X, vol. 8, p. 021072, Jun 2018.
• Q. Zhao, Y. Liu, X. Yuan, E. Chitambar, and X. Ma, One-shot coherence dilution, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 120, p. 070403, Feb 2018.
• H.-L. Huang, Q. Zhao, X. Ma, C. Liu, Z.-E. Su, X.-L.Wang, L. Li, N.-L. Liu, B. C. Sanders, C.-Y. Lu, and J.-W. Pan, Experimental blind quantum computing for a classical client, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 119, p.050503, Aug 2017.
• Q. Zhao, X. Yuan, and X. Ma, Efficient measurement-device-independent detection of multipartite entanglement structure, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 94, p. 012343, Jul 2016.