Educational Background
2012 Ph.D. Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale University of Science and Technology of China
2007 B.Sc. Special Class for Gifted Young University of Science and Technology of China

Professional Experience

2019.05-Present, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
2017.07-2019.05, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Southern University of Science and Technology
2016.09-2017.08, Postdoctoral fellow Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Raymond Laflamme and Bei Zeng Group
2012.09-2016.09, Postdoctoral fellow Institute for Quantum Computing and Department of Physics, University of Waterloo, Raymond Laflamme Group
2007.09-2012.07, PhD candidate Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Jiangfeng Du Group

Research Interests
Quantum information processing in nuclear and electron spin magnetic resonance systems.
Development of spin control techniques to achieve high-fidelity coherent control.
Benchmarks in large-scale systems.
Quantum simulation towards large-scale quantum systems.
Experimental realization of adiabatic quantum computing model.
Quantum state tomography and process tomography.

Honors and Awards
2020 Pearl River Recruitment Program of Talents (Youth)
2020 Peng Cheng Professor
2018 National 1000-Talent Youth Plan
2017 Overseas High-Caliber Personnel in Shenzhen (Peacock Plan)
2012 CAS Presidential Scholarship

Professional Membership
2014-today Review Editor: Frontiers in Quantum Computing

Selected Publications

(*: 同等贡献; †: 通讯作者)

1. X. F. Nie*, X. R. Zhu*, Y. A. Fan, X. Y. Long, H. F. Liu, K. Y. Huang, C. Xi, L. Y. Che, Y. X. Zheng, Y. F. Feng, X. D. Yang, and D.W. Lu†, Self-Consistent Determination of Single-Impurity Anderson Model Using Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach on a Spin Quantum Simulator, accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett., (2024).

2. C. Xi*, X. J. Liu*, H. F. Liu, K. Y. Huang, X. Y. Long, D. Ebler, X. F. Nie†, O. Dahlsten†, and D.W. Lu†, Experimental Validation of Enhanced Information Capacity by Quantum Switch in Accordance with Thermodynamic Laws, Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 040401 (2024).

3. K. Y. Huang, C. Xi, X. Y. Long, H. F. Liu, Y. A. Fan, X. Y. Wang, Y. X. Zheng, Y. F. Feng, X. F. Nie†, and D.W. Lu†, Experimental Realization of Self-Contained Quantum Refrigeration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 210403 (2024).

4. X. F. Nie*, X. R. Zhu*, K. Y. Huang, K. Tang, X. Y. Long, Z. D. Lin, Y. Tian, C. D. Qiu, C. Xi, X. D. Yang, J. Li, Y. Dong†, T. Xin†, and D.W. Lu†, Experimental Realization of a Quantum Refrigerator Driven by Indefinite Causal Orders, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 100603 (2022).

5. X. Y. Long*, W. T. He*, N. N. Zhang*, K. Tang, Z. D. Lin, H. F. Liu, X. F. Nie, G. R. Feng, J. Li, T. Xin, Q. Ai†, and D.W. Lu†, Entanglement-Enhanced Quantum Metrology in Colored Noise by Quantum Zeno Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 070502 (2022).