Jing-Chen Zhang academic website
吾生也有涯,而知也无涯.—庄子
I investigate molecular qudits—quantum systems with more than two logical states—for quantum information processing and simulation. With Prof. Yuan Liu at NC State, I study how molecular symmetry and internal structure can support useful encodings, and how interactions and environmental noise affect coherence and leakage from the logical subspace.
With Prof. Timur V. Tscherbul, I aim to combine scattering and wavepacket calculations with measures from quantum-information theory to resolve how information is redistributed among motional and internal degrees of freedom during chemical reactions.
With Dr. Adrien Devolder and Prof. Paul Brumer at the University of Toronto, I study how interference between prepared reactant states and constraints from different symmetries can affect collision and reaction outcomes, as well as how to characterize these processes using quantum-information theory.
I am open to new ideas and collaborations. If you are interested in working together, please feel free to contact me!