Dr. Benchen Huang

Former Graduate Student

Education

• B.S. Chemistry, Nankai University (2019)

Areas of Interest

• Quantum information science and quantum computing

Experience

• 2022, 2023 Summer: AWS Solution Architect Intern: Quantum Monte Carlo on Quantum Computers
• 2019-Present: Chemistry Graduate Student, University of Chicago
• 2018-2019: Visiting Student, University of Minnesota, Prof. Donald G. Truhlar's Group

Publications

• Benchen Huang, Yi-Ting Chen, Brajesh Gupt, Martin Suchara, Anh Tran, Sam McArdle, and Giulia Galli
  Evaluating a quantum-classical quantum Monte Carlo algorithm with Matchgate shadows
  ArXiv:2404.18303 (2024).
• Zhongyuan Liu,* Ruotian Gong,* Benchen Huang,* Yu Jin, Xinyi Du, Guanghui He, Eli Janzen, Li Yang, Erik Henriksen, James Edgar, Giulia Galli, and Chong Zu (*equal contribution)
  Temperature dependent spin-phonon coupling of boron-vacancy centers in hexagonal boron nitride
  ArXiv:2404.15493 (2024).
• P. Bhattacharyya, W. Chen, X. Huang, S. Chatterjee, B. Huang, B. Kobrin, Y. Lyu, T. J. Smart, M. Block, E. Wang, Z. Wang, W. Wu, S. Hsieh, H. Ma, S. Mandyam, B. Chen, E. Davis, Z. M. Geballe, C. Zu, V. Struzhkin, R. Jeanloz, J. E. Moore, T. Cui, G. Galli, B. I. Halperin, C. R. Laumann, and N. Y. Yao
  Imaging the Meissner effect in hydride superconductors using quantum sensors
  Nature 627, 73–79 (2024).
• Y. Alexeev, ..., B. Huang et al.
  Quantum-centric Supercomputing for Materials Science: A Perspective on Challenges and Future Directions
  ArXiv:2312.09733 (2024).
• X. Guo, A. M. Stramma, Z. Li, W. G. Roth, B. Huang, Y. Jin, R. A. Parker, J. A. Martínez, N. Shofer, C. P. Michaels, C. P. Purser, M. H. Appel, E. M. Alexeev, T. Liu, A. C. Ferrari, D. D. Awschalom, N. Delegan, B. Pingault, G. Galli, F. J. Heremans, M. Atatüre, A. A. High
  Microwave-based quantum control and coherence protection of tin-vacancy spin qubits in a strain-tuned diamond membrane heterostructure
  Phys. Rev. X 13, 041037 (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).
• Christian Vorwerk*, Nan Sheng*, Marco Govoni, Benchen Huang, and Giulia Galli (*equal contribution)
  Quantum embedding theories to simulate condensed systems on quantum computers
  Nat. Comput. Sci. 2, 424–432 (2022).
• Benchen Huang, Marco Govoni, and Giulia Galli
  Simulating the Electronic Structure of Spin Defects on Quantum Computers
  PRX Quantum 3, 010339 (2022).
• Sijia S Dong*, Benchen Huang*, Laura Gagliardi, and Donald G Truhlar (*equal contribution)
  State-interaction pair-density functional theory can accurately describe a spiro mixed valence compound
  J. Phys. Chem. A. 123, 2100–2106 (2019).