In this summer research project, Caltech undergrad Yiyi Cai and her mentor Yu Tong showed that random errors in an analog quantum simulator tend to cancel, making the simulation more accurate than you might naively expect. arxiv.org/abs/2311.14818

It’s been an incredible opportunity working with and learning from my amazing mentors Yu Tong and John Preskill, and many thanks to TQC_conference for the prize and a pair of lovely Okinawan lions! 🙌

New joint work with Akshar Ramkumar on the mixing time of quantum Gibbs sampling for random sparse Hamiltonians. Very proud of Akshar, who worked on this as a sophomore undergrad at Caltech! arxiv.org/abs/2411.04454

With Akshar, Yiyi Cai, and Yu Tong we prove high-temperature fermionic Gibbs state is a probabilistic distribution over Gaussian states. Very proud of Akshar and Yiyi --- undergraduates at Caltech! My first experience working with undergraduates! scirate.com/arxiv/2505.097…

Thank you John for the incredible opportunity - I have learned so much from you and the wonderful people at IQIM!