Dr Jinzhao Sun

Profile

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Queen Mary University of London. Prior to this, I was a Schmidt AI in Science Fellow at the University of Oxford, where I also held an Associate Research Fellowship at Reuben College Oxford. I completed my PhD at the University of Oxford supervised by Vlatko Vedral and Andrew Boothroyd, following my undergraduate study at Peking University. After that, I did postdoctoral research with Myungshik Kim at Imperial, Tom Gur at Cambridge and Andrew Green at UCL.

My research revolves around quantum computing, quantum information, and quantum many-body physics. My research lies in the exploration of quantum computing as a means to address problems that present challenges for classical computing. I aim to uncover the potential power of quantum computing, and examine whether it holds advantages in addressing quantum many-body problems. I am also interested in applying quantum computing or quantum AI to real-world problems like materials and molecules.

I have broad interest in quantum-related topics, such as quantum algorithms for eigenstate and dynamics problems, quantum simulation, quantum error correction and error mitigation, quantum computational chemistry, and foundations in quantum information. Find detailed descriptions of my work on my website.

Feel free to get in touch if you are interested in collaboration or joining the group. We also welcome and support applications for postdoctoral fellowships or PhD scholarships.

Research

Research Interests:

Find some interesting research projects, and detailed descriptions of my research works on my website (https://jinzhao-sun.github.io/).

Publications

Perturbative quantum simulation

J Sun, S Endo, H Lin, P Hayden, V Vedral, X Yuan

Physical Review Letters 129 (12), 120505 (2022)

Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators

J Sun, Lucia Vilchez-Estevez, Vlatko Vedral, Andrew T. Boothroyd, and M. S. Kim

Nature Communications v16, 1403 (2025)

Mitigating realistic noise in practical noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices

J Sun, X Yuan, T Tsunoda, V Vedral, S C. Benjamin, S Endo

Physical Review Applied 15, 034026 (2021)

Experimental quantum computational chemistry with optimised unitary coupled cluster ansatz

S Guo*, J Sun*, H Qian*, M Gong*, Y Zhang, F Chen, Y Ye, Y Wu, S Cao, K Liu, C Zha, C Ying, Q Zhu, H-H Huang, Y Zhao, S Li, S Wang, J Yu, D Fan, D Wu, H Su, H Deng, H Rong, Y Li, K Zhang, T-H Chung, F Liang, J Lin, Y Xu, L Sun, C Guo, N Li, Y-H Huo, C-Z Peng, C-Y Lu, X Yuan, X Zhu, J-W Pan

Nature Physics, 20, 1240–1246 (2024)

Low-depth Hamiltonian Simulation by Adaptive Product Formula

Z Zhang*, J. Sun*, X Yuan, Man-Hong Yung

Physical Review Letters 130, 040601 (2023)  

You can find a list of my publications on my Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9hEOG5oAAAAJ&hl=zh-CN).

Supervision