Research Interest

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

Professional Experience

  • Applications Physicist, Fermilab, 2020 - current
  • Postdoctoral research associate, Fermilab, 2018 - 2020
  • Postdoctoral fellow,  Koch's Group at Northwestern University, 2017 - 2018

Education

Publications

  1. Surrogate optimization of variational quantum circuits
     (Erik J. Gustafson, Juha Tiihonen, Diana Chamaki, Farshud Sorourifar, J. Wayne Mullinax, Andy C. Y. Li, Filip B. Maciejewski, Nicolas PD Sawaya, Jaron T. Krogel, David E. Bernal Neira, Norm M. Tubman) 
    arXiv:2404.02951
  2. Noise-induced transition in optimal solutions of variational quantum algorithms
     (Andy C. Y. Li, Imanol Hernandez) 
    arXiv:2403.02762
  3. Robust Finite-Temperature Many-Body Scarring on a Quantum Computer
     (Jean-Yves Desaules, Erik J. Gustafson, Andy C. Y. Li, Zlatko Papić, Jad C. Halimeh) 
    arXiv.2309.11543
  4. Qumode transfer between continuous- and discrete-variable devices
     (Alexandru Macridin, Andy C. Y. Li, Panagiotis Spentzouris) 
    Phys. Rev. A 109, 032419 (2024) [arXiv:2305.03179]
  5. 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 (2023) [arXiv:2301.08226]
  6. Simulating scalar field theories on quantum computers with limited resources
     (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Stephen Mrenna, Panagiotis Spentzouris) 
    Phys. Rev. A 107, 032603 (2023) [arXiv:2210.07985]
  7. 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 (2022) [arXiv:2204.05322]
  8. Qubit Assignment Using Time Reversal
    (Evan Peters, Prasanth Shyamsundar, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel Perdue) 
    PRX Quantum 3, 040333 (2022) [arXiv:2201.00445]
  9. 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 (2022) [arXiv:2111.02982]
  10. 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
  11. Large scale multi-node simulations of ℤ2 gauge theory quantum circuits using Google Cloud Platform
    (Erik Gustafson, Burt Holzman, James Kowalkowski, Henry Lamm, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel Perdue, Sergio Boixo, Sergei Isakov, Orion Martin, Ross Thomson, Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller, Jackson Beall, Martin Ganahl, Guifre Vidal, Evan Peters) 
    2021 IEEE/ACM Second International Workshop on Quantum Computing Software (QCS), 2021, pp. 72-79 [arXiv:2110.07482]
  12. 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 (2023) [arXiv:2108.13375]
  13. Quantum simulation of ϕ-4 theories in qudit systems
    (Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, M. Sohaib Alam, Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Gabriel N. Perdue) 
    arXiv:2108.13357
  14. Primitive quantum gates for dihedral gauge theories
    (M. Sohaib Alam, Stuart Hadfield, Henry Lamm, Andy C. Y. Li) 
    Phys. Rev. D 105, 114501 (2022) [arXiv:2108.13305]
  15. Bosonic field digitization for quantum computers
    (Alexandru Macridin, Andy C. Y. Li, Stephen Mrenna, Panagiotis Spentzouris) 
    Phys. Rev. A 105, 052405 (2022) [arXiv:2108.10793]
  16. Perturbative readout error mitigation for near-term quantum computers
    (Evan Peters, Andy C. Y. Li, Gabriel N. Perdue) 
    Phys. Rev. A 107, 062426 (2023) [arXiv:2105.08161]
  17. 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 (2021) [arXiv:2104.05059]
  18. 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 (2021) [arXiv:2012.11560]
  19. Quantum computing for neutrino-nucleus scattering
    (Alessandro Roggero, Andy C. Y. Li, Joseph Carlson, Rajan Gupta and Gabriel N. Perdue) 
    Phys. Rev. D 101, 074038 (2020) [arXiv:1911.06368]
  20. Spectrum and coherence properties of the current-mirror qubit
    (D. K. Weiss, Andy C. Y. Li, D. G. Ferguson and Jens Koch) 
    Phys. Rev. B 100, 224507 (2019) [arXiv:1908.04615]
  21. Adaptive rotating-wave approximation for driven open quantum systems
    (Brian Baker, Andy C. Y. Li, Nicholas Irons, Nathan Earnest and Jens Koch) 
    Phys. Rev. A 98, 052111 (2018) [arXiv:1808.01247]
  22. Mapping repulsive to attractive interaction in driven-dissipative quantum systems
    (Andy C. Y. Li and Jens Koch) 
    New J. Phys. 19, 115010 (2017) [arXiv:1706.06181]
  23. Observation of a Dissipative Phase Transition in a One-Dimensional Circuit QED Lattice
    (Mattias Fitzpatrick, Neereja M. Sundaresan, Andy C. Y. Li, Jens Koch and A. A. Houck) 
    Phys. Rev. X 7, 011016 (2017) [arXiv:1607.06895]
  24. Imaging Photon Lattice States by Scanning Defect Microscopy
    (D. L. Underwood, W. E. Shanks, Andy C. Y. Li, Lamia Ateshian, Jens Koch and A. A. Houck) 
    Phys. Rev. X 6, 021044 (2016) [arXiv:1510.08428]
  25. Resummation for Nonequilibrium Perturbation Theory and Application to Open Quantum Lattices
    (Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione and Jens Koch) 
    Phys. Rev. X 6, 021037 (2016) [arXiv:1511.01551]
  26. Perturbative approach to Markovian open quantum systems
    (Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione and Jens Koch) 
    Sci. Rep. 4, 4887 (2014) [arXiv:1311.3227]

Selected presentations

  1. Noise-induced transition in optimal solutions of variational quantum algorithms (March 2024).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Imanol Hernandez) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2024, Minneapolis, MN.
  2. Simulating scalar field theories on quantum computers with limited resources (March 2023).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Stephen Mrenna, Panagiotis Spentzouris) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2023, Las Vegas, NV.
  3. VQE for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model (May 2022).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, M. Sohaib Alam, Thomas Iadecola, Ammar Jahin, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, Richard Li, Alexandru Macridin, Peter P. Orth, A. Barış Özgüler, Gabriel N. Perdue, Norm M. Tubman)
    Oral presentation at QSC/SQMS Quantum Algorithms Workshop, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
  4. Benchmarking VQE for the square-octagon-lattice Kitaev model (March 2022).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, M. Sohaib Alam, Thomas Iadecola, Ammar Jahin, Doga Murat Kurkcuoglu, Richard Li, Peter P. Orth, A. Barış Özgüler, Gabriel N. Perdue, Norm M. Tubman) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2022, Chicago, IL.
  5. Simulating phi-4 scalar field on quantum computers (March 2021).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Stephen Mrenna, Panagiotis Spentzouris) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2021, virtual.
  6. Quantum Computing for Neutrino-nucleus Scattering with NISQ devices (Apr 2020).
    Invited talk at 2020 Quantum Computing User Forum, virtual organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  7. Quantum Computing for Neutrino-nucleus Scattering with NISQ devices (Dec 2019).
    Talk at Theoretical Physics Seminar, Fermilab, IL.
  8. Variational quantum simulation of interacting bosons on NISQ devices (May 2019).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Panagiotis Spentzouris) link to slides
    Oral presentation at Kavli ACP Spring Workshop: Intersections QIS/HEP at the Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO.
  9. Variational quantum eigensolver of interacting bosons with NISQ devices (March 2019).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Panagiotis Spentzouris) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2019, Boston, MA.
  10. Variational quantum simulator of interacting bosons (January 2019).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Alexandru Macridin, Panagiotis Spentzouris)
    Poster presentation at 22nd Annual Conference on Quantum Information Processing, Boulder, CO.
  11. Properties of a Protected Qubit based on the Superconducting Current Mirror (March 2018).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, David Ferguson, Daniel Weiss, Jens Koch) abstract 
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2018, Los Angeles, CA.
  12. Dissipative phase transition in a one-dimensional circuit QED lattice: Theory (March 2017).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Mattias Fitzpatrick, Neereja Sundaresan, Andrew Houck, Jens Koch) abstract link to slides
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2017, New Orleans, LA.
  13. The driven-dissipative Jaynes-Cummings chain in the dispersive regime (March 2016).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, Mattias Fitzpatrick, Neereja Sundaresan, Andrew Houck, Jens Koch) abstract
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, MD.
  14. Perturbative study of interacting photons in open lattices (March 2015).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione and Jens Koch) abstract
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2015, San Antonio, TX.
  15. Perturbative approach to open interacting photon lattices (November 2014).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione and Jens Koch)
    Oral presentation at QIPCC 2014    , KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
  16. Perturbative approach to open circuit QED systems (March 2014).
    (Andy C. Y. Li, F. Petruccione and Jens Koch) abstract link to slides
    Oral presentation at APS March Meeting 2014, Denver, CO.