Nan Sheng
The University of Chicago
Department of Chemistry
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 834-7392
Email: nansheng at uchicago edu
Former Graduate Student
Personal Webpage
Education
- Ph.D. Computational Mathematics, Stanford University (Expected 2027)
- M.S. Computational Mathematics, Stanford University (Expected 2025)
- Ph.D. Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago (2023)
- M.S. Theoretical Chemistry, University of Chicago (2020)
- B.S. Physics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019)
- B.S. Chemistry, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (2019)
Areas of Interest
- Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
- Quantum Many-Body Theory and Methods
- Quantum Computation and Simulation
Experience
- 2022-2023: Graduate Researcher, Prof. Yuehaw Khoo’s Group, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
- 2019-2022: Graduate Researcher, Prof. Giulia Galli’s Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago
- 2021-2022: Research Intern, Dr. Olivier Parcollet’s group, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
- 2018-2019: Undergraduate Researcher, Prof. Tao Xiang's group, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 2018-2019: Undergraduate Researcher, Prof. Qiang Shi's group, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Publications
- Nan Sheng, Alexander Hampel, Sophie Beck, Olivier Parcollet, Nils Wentzell, Jason Kaye, and Kun Chen
Low rank Green's function representations applied to dynamical mean-field theory
Phys. Rev. B 107, 245123 (2023).
- Benchen Huang, Nan Sheng, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli
Quantum simulations of Fermionic Hamiltonians with efficient encoding and ansatz schemes
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 19, 1487–1498 (2023).
- Nan Sheng*, Christian Vorwerk*, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli (*equal contribution)
Green’s Function Formulation of Quantum Defect Embedding Theory
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 18, 3512-3522 (2022).
- Christian Vorwerk*, Nan Sheng*, Marco Govoni, Benchen Huang, and Giulia Galli (*equal contribution)
Quantum Embedding Theories to Simulate Condensed Systems on Quantum Computers
Nature Comput. Sci. 2, 424–432 (2022).
- He Ma, Nan Sheng, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli
Quantum Embedding Theory for Strongly Correlated States in Materials
J. Chem. Theory Comput. 17, 2116-2125 (2021).
- He Ma, Nan Sheng, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli
First-principles studies of strongly correlated states in defect spin qubits in diamond
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 22, 25522-25527 (2020).
