Focus

Research interests

  • Quantum information technology based on superconducting circuits
  • Applications of quantum computing
  • Nonequilibrium quantum many-body physics

Professional experience

Education

Selected record

Publications

35 papers

2026

Architectural scaling tradeoffs in modular 3D bosonic quantum processors

Shaojiang Zhu, Ugur Alyanak, Tanay Roy, Alessandro Reineri, Andy C. Y. Li, Taeyoon Kim, Srivatsan Chakram, Akshay Murthy, Anna Grassellino, Alexander Romanenko

arXiv:2608.21733

Existence of a robust optimal control process for efficient measurements in a two-qubit system

Ricardo Rodriguez, Nam Nguyen, Elizabeth Behrman, Andy C. Y. Li, James Steck

Phys. Rev. A 113, 042618 [arXiv:2506.19122]

Sparse Phase Ansatzes for Resource-Efficient Qudit State Preparation via the SNAP-Displacement Protocol

Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, Andy C. Y. Li, Tanay Roy, Silvia Zorzetti

arXiv:2603.12203

InterQnet: A Heterogeneous Full-Stack Approach to Co-Designing Scalable Quantum Networks

Joaquin Chung, Daniel Dilley, Ely Eastman, Alvin Gonzales, Kara Hokenstad, Md Shariful Islam, Varun Jorapur, Joseph Petrullo, Andy C. Y. Li, Bikun Li, Vasileios Niaouris, Anirudh Ramesh, Ansh Singal, Caitao Zhan, Michael Bishof, Eric Chitambar, Jacob P. Covey, Alan Dibos, Xu Han, Liang Jiang, Prem Kumar, Jeffrey Larson, Zain H. Saleem, Rajkumar Kettimuthu

IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering 7, 1–21, 4101021 [arXiv:2509.19503]

2025

Quantum Enhanced Dark-Matter Search with Entangled Fock States in High-Quality Cavities

Benjamin Freiman, Xinyuan You, Andy C. Y. Li, Raphael Cervantes, Taeyoon Kim, Anna Grassellino, Roni Harnik, Yao Lu

arXiv:2510.26754

Floquet-engineered fast snap gates in weakly coupled circuit-QED systems

Xinyuan You, Andy C. Y. Li, Tanay Roy, Shaojiang Zhu, Alexander Romanenko, Anna Grassellino, Yao Lu, Srivatsan Chakram

Phys. Rev. Applied 24, 034072 [arXiv:2506.03034]

Fast Machine Learning for Quantum Control of Microwave Qudits on Edge Hardware

Flor Sanders, Gaurav Agarwal, Luca Carloni, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel N. Perdue

arXiv:2506.03323

Ultracoherent superconducting cavity-based multiqudit platform with error-resilient control

Taeyoon Kim, Tanay Roy, Xinyuan You, Andy C. Y. Li, Henry Lamm, Oleg Pronitchev, Mustafa Bal, Sabrina Garattoni, Francesco Crisa, Daniel Bafia, Doga Kurkcuoglu, Roman Pilipenko, Paul Heidler, Nicholas Bornman, David van Zanten, Silvia Zorzetti, Roni Harnik, Akshay Murthy, Shaojiang Zhu, Changqing Wang, Andre Vallieres, Ziwen Huang, Jens Koch, Anna Grassellino, Srivatsan Chakram, Alexander Romanenko, Yao Lu

arXiv:2506.03286

Machine learning for arbitrary single-qubit rotations on an embedded device

Madhav Narayan Bhat, Marco Russo, Luca P. Carloni, Giuseppe Di Guglielmo, Farah Fahim, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel N. Perdue

Quantum Mach. Intell. 7, 8 [arXiv:2411.13037]

2024

Noise-induced transition in optimal solutions of variational quantum algorithms

Andy C. Y. Li, Imanol Hernandez

arXiv:2403.02762

2023

Preparing quantum many-body scar states on quantum computers

Erik J. Gustafson, Andy C. Y. Li, Abid Khan, Joonho Kim, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, M. Sohaib Alam, Peter P. Orth, Armin Rahmani, Thomas Iadecola

Quantum 7, 1171 [arXiv:2301.08226]

Benchmarking variational quantum eigensolvers for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model

Andy C. Y. Li, M. Sohaib Alam, Thomas Iadecola, Ammar Jahin, Joshua Job, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, Richard Li, Peter P. Orth, A. Barış Özgüler, Gabriel N. Perdue, Norm M. Tubman

Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033071 [arXiv:2108.13375]

2022

Fermionic approach to variational quantum simulation of Kitaev spin models

Ammar Jahin, Andy C. Y. Li, Thomas Iadecola, Peter P. Orth, Gabriel N. Perdue, Alexandru Macridin, M. Sohaib Alam, Norm M. Tubman

Phys. Rev. A 106, 022434 [arXiv:2204.05322]

Nuclear two point correlation functions on a quantum computer

Alessandro Baroni, Joseph Carlson, Rajan Gupta, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel N. Perdue, Alessandro Roggero

Phys. Rev. D 105, 074503 [arXiv:2111.02982]

2021

Simulations of Quantum Circuits with Approximate Noise using qsim and Cirq

Sergei V. Isakov, Dvir Kafri, Orion Martin, Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller, Wojciech Mruczkiewicz, Matthew P. Harrigan, Nicholas C. Rubin, Ross Thomson, Michael Broughton, Kevin Kissell, Evan Peters, Erik Gustafson, Andy C. Y. Li, Henry Lamm, Gabriel Perdue, Alan K. Ho, Doug Strain, Sergio Boixo

arXiv:2111.02396

Application of quantum machine learning using the quantum variational classifier method to high energy physics analysis at the LHC on IBM quantum computer simulator and hardware with 10 qubits

Sau Lan Wu, Jay Chan, Wen Guan, Shaojun Sun, Alex Wang, Chen Zhou, Miron Livny, Federico Carminati, Alberto Di Meglio, Andy C. Y. Li, Joseph Lykken, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Shinjae Yoo, Tzu-Chieh Wei

J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 48, 125003 [arXiv:2012.11560]

Application of quantum machine learning using the quantum kernel algorithm on high energy physics analysis at the LHC

Sau Lan Wu, Shaojun Sun, Wen Guan, Chen Zhou, Jay Chan, Chi Lung Cheng, Tuan Pham, Yan Qian, Alex Zeng Wang, Rui Zhang, Miron Livny, Jennifer Glick, Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos, Stefan Woerner, Ivano Tavernelli, Federico Carminati, Alberto Di Meglio, Andy C. Y. Li, Joseph Lykken, Panagiotis Spentzouris, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Shinjae Yoo, Tzu-Chieh Wei

Phys. Rev. Research 3, 033221 [arXiv:2104.05059]

Quantum simulation of φ⁴ theories in qudit systems

Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, M. Sohaib Alam, Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Gabriel N. Perdue

arXiv:2108.13357

2020

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2018

2017

Observation of a Dissipative Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Circuit QED Lattice

Mattias Fitzpatrick, Neereja M. Sundaresan, Andy C. Y. Li, Jens Koch, A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. X 7, 011016 [arXiv:1607.06895]

2016

Imaging Photon Lattice States by Scanning Defect Microscopy

D. L. Underwood, W. E. Shanks, Andy C. Y. Li, Lamia Ateshian, Jens Koch, A. A. Houck

Phys. Rev. X 6, 021044 [arXiv:1510.08428]

2014

Talks & posters

Selected presentations

17 entries

  1. March 2026

    Pulse control of superconducting cavity-based qudits with a Fock-state basis

    Oral presentation at the APS Global Physics Summit 2026, Denver, Colorado.

    Abstract
  2. March 2024

    Noise-induced transition in optimal solutions of variational quantum algorithms

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Abstract
  3. March 2023

    Simulating scalar field theories on quantum computers with limited resources

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, Nevada.

    Abstract
  4. May 2022

    VQE for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model

    Oral presentation at the QSC/SQMS Quantum Algorithms Workshop, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

    QSC/SQMS Quantum Algorithms Workshop
  5. March 2022

    Benchmarking VQE for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, Illinois.

    Abstract
  6. March 2021

    Simulating φ⁴ scalar field on quantum computers

    Oral presentation at the virtual APS March Meeting 2021.

    Abstract
  7. April 2020

    Quantum Computing for Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering with NISQ devices

    Invited talk at the virtual Quantum Computing User Forum organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

    2020 Quantum Computing User Forum
  8. December 2019

    Quantum Computing for Neutrino–Nucleus Scattering with NISQ devices

    Theoretical Physics Seminar, Fermilab, Illinois.

    Seminar
  9. May 2019

    Variational quantum simulation of interacting bosons on NISQ devices

    Oral presentation at the Kavli ACP Spring Workshop, Aspen Center for Physics, Colorado.

  10. March 2019

    Variational quantum eigensolver of interacting bosons with NISQ devices

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, Massachusetts.

    Abstract
  11. January 2019

    Variational quantum simulator of interacting bosons

    Poster at the 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing, Boulder, Colorado.

    QIP 2019
  12. March 2018

    Properties of a Protected Qubit based on the Superconducting Current Mirror

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, California.

    Abstract
  13. March 2017

    Dissipative phase transition in a one-dimensional circuit QED lattice: Theory

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2017, New Orleans, Louisiana.

    Abstract
  14. March 2016

    The driven-dissipative Jaynes–Cummings chain in the dispersive regime

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, Maryland.

    Abstract
  15. March 2015

    Perturbative study of interacting photons in open lattices

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, Texas.

    Abstract
  16. November 2014

    Perturbative approach to open interacting photon lattices

    Oral presentation at QIPCC 2014, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

  17. March 2014

    Perturbative approach to open circuit QED systems

    Oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2014, Denver, Colorado.

    Abstract