Xi Qin
qinxi630@ustc.edu.cn
Education
2010-2013 Ph.D. in Physics Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China
2008-2010 Master's Degree in Physics Electronics, University of Science and Technology of China
2004-2008 Bachelor's Degree in Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
Experience
2021-Present Junoir Researcher, Hefei National Laboratory
2017-Present Associate Researcher, University of Science and Technology of China
2015-2016 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Science and Technology of China
2013-2015 Lecturer, Shanghai Engineering Center for Microsatellites， Senior Designer
Overview of Academic Research
Xi Qin’s research interest is the control and read-out technology on quantum computation and quantum precision measurement, for resolving the outstanding challenges in quantum state manipulation and weak signal measurement, and physical implementations.
His major achievements include:
* Published more than 40 papers in SCI, including 12 IEEE/RSI paper (3 RSI editor picks), the research outcomes have been reported by AIP SCIlight. The studied electronics technology supports the research of quantum science in Nature Communication, PRL, Science Advance, etc..
* Applied more than 30 China Invention Patents, and 3 PCTs. High quality Industry-University-Research (IUR) Collaboration has been performed, and the electronic products have been delivered to more than 400 users.
* Undertook several National Key Science and Technology Projects including 173 projects, Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS, etc..
Research Directions/Fields:
High precision control signal generation
Weak signal measument
Simulation of strongly correlated many-body systems
Major Honors and Awards
2020 Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS Engineer-in-Chief
2022 Anhui Science and Technology Award (First Prize)
Representative Publications
1.Yifan Wang; Wenzhe Zhang; Haotian Chai; Zhenlin Zhang; Shaochun Lin; Xi Qin; and Jiangfeng Du; Fully integrated quantum magnetometer based on nitrogen-vacancy centers, Physical Review Applied, 23, 034008 (2025).(Corresponding Author)
2.Enrui Zhang; Wenzhe Zhang; Xiaofeng Jiang; and Xi Qin; Deep-neural-network-based magnetic-field acquisition method for quantum sensing with nitrogen-vacancy centers, PHYSICAL REVIEW A 110, 052417 (2024).(Corresponding Author)
3.Kaiqing Liang; Mingdong Zhu; Xi Qin; Ziqing Meng; Pengfei Wang; Jiangfeng Du ; Fieldprogrammable-gate-array based hardware platform for nitrogen-vacancy center based fast magnetic imaging, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2024, 94 (Corresponding Author)
4.Yu Tong; Wenzhe Zhang; Xi Qin; Yijin Xie; Xing Rong; Jiangfeng Du ; A customized control and readout device for vector magnetometers based on nitrogen-vacancy centers, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023, 94(1): 014709(Corresponding Author)
5.Mengxiang Zhang, Xinxing Yuan, Xi-wang Luo, Chang Liu, Yue Li, Mingdong Zhu, Xi Qin, Yiheng Lin, and Jiangfeng Du, Observation of spin-tensor induced topological phase transitions of triply degenerate points with a trapped ion, Physical Review Letters 129, 250501 (2022)
6.Wenzhe Zhang; Wenxuan Yang; Xiaofeng Jiang; Xi Qin; Jian Yang; Jiangfeng Du ; Two-Stage Intelligent Multi-Type Artifact Removal for Single-Channel EEG Settings: A GRU Autoencoder based Approach, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2022, 69(10): 3142-3154 (Corresponding Author)
7.Lin Wang; Yu Tong; Xi Qin; Wen-Zhe Zhang; Xing Rong; Jiangfeng Du ; A field-programmable-gate-array based high time resolution arbitrary timing generator with a time folding method utilizing multiple carry-chains, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2021, 92(1): 0-014701 (Corresponding Author)
8.Ming-Dong Zhu; Xi Qin; Lin Wang; Wen-zhe Zhang; Yiheng Lin; Jiangfeng Du ; A time-to-digital-converter utilizing bits-counters to decode carry-chains and DSP48E1 slices in a field-programmable-gate-array, Journal of Instrumentation, 2021, 16(2) (Corresponding Author)
9.Ming-Dong Zhu; Lin Yan; Xi Qin; Wen-Zhe Zhang; Yiheng Lin; Jiangfeng Du ; FPGA based hardware platform for trapped-ion-based multi-level quantum systems, Chinese Physics B, 2023,32 (Corresponding Author)
10.Tong, Yu; Wang, Lin; Zhang, Wen-Zhe; Zhu, Ming-Dong; Qin, Xi; Jiang, Min; Rong, Xing; Du,Jiangfeng ; A high performance fast-Fourier-transform spectrum analyzer for measuring spin noise spectrums*, Chinese Physics B, 2020, 29(9): 0-090704 (Corresponding Author)
11.Xi Qin, Wenzhe Zhang, Lin Wang, Yuxi Zhao, Yu Tong, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, An FPGA-Based Hardware Platform for the Control of Spin-Based Quantum Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 69, 1127 (2020).
12.Xi Qin, Ming-Dong Zhu, Wen-Zhe Zhang, Yi-Heng Lin, Ying Rui, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, A high resolution time-to-digital-convertor based on a carry-chain and DSP48E1 adders in a 28-nm field-programmable-gate-array, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 024708 (2020).
13.Zhiping Yang, Xi Kong, Zhijie Li, Kai Yang, Pei Yu, Pengfei Wang, Ya Wang, Xi Qin, Xing Rong, Chang-Kui Duan, Fazhan Shi, Jiangfeng Du, Structural Analysis of Nuclear Spin Clusters via 2D Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Advanced Quantum Technologies, 1900136 (2020).
14.Yang Wu, Ya Wang, Xi Qin, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, A programmable two-qubit solid-state quantum processor under ambient conditions, npj Quantum Information 5, 9 (2019).
15.Kai Yang, Longwen Zhou, Wenchao Ma, Xi Kong, Pengfei Wang, Xi Qin, Xing Rong, Ya Wang, Fazhan Shi, Jiangbin Gong, and Jiangfeng Du, Floquet dynamical quantum phase transitions, Physical Review B 100, 085308 (2019).
16.Wen-Zhe Zhang, Xi Qin*, Lin Wang, Yu Tong, Ying Rui, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, A fully-adjustable picosecond resolution arbitrary timing generator based on multi-stage time interpolation, Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 114702 (2019). (Corresponding Author)
17.Ya Wang, Wentao Ji, Zihua Chai, Yuhang Guo, Mengqi Wang, Xiangyu Ye, Pei Yu, Long Zhang, Xi Qin, Pengfei Wang, Fazhan Shi, Xing Rong, Dawei Lu, Xiong-Jun Liu, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimental observation of dynamical bulk-surface correspondence in momentum space for topological phases, Physical Review A 100, 052328 (2019).
18.Ke Jing, Ziheng Lan, Zhifu Shi, Shiwei Mu, Xi Qin, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, Broadband electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer from 1 to 15 GHz using metallic coplanar waveguide, Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 125109 (2019).
19.Xi Qin, Wen-Zhe Zhang, Lin Wang, et al, “A pico-second resolution arbitrary timing generator based on time folding and time interpolating”, Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 89, 074701 (2018).
20.Xing Rong, Mengqi Wang, Jianpei Geng, Xi Qin, et al., “Searching for an exotic spin-dependent interaction with a single electron-spin quantum sensor”, Nature Communications, vol. 9, Article number: 739 (2018).
21.Zhiping Yang, Fazhan Shi, Pengfei Wang, Nicole Raatz, Rui Li, Xi Qin, Jan Meijer, Changkui Duan, Chenyong Ju, Xi Kong, and Jiangfeng Du, Detection of magnetic dipolar coupling of water molecules at the nanoscale using quantum magnetometry, Physical Review B 97, 205438 (2018).
22.Wenfei Jia, Zhifu Shi, Xi Qin, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, Ultra-broadband coplanar waveguide for optically detected magnetic resonance of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond, Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 064705 (2018).
23.Zhifu Shi, Shiwei Mu, Xi Qin, Yingqiu Dai, Xing Rong, and Jiangfeng Du, An X-band pulsed electron paramagnetic resonance spectrometer with time resolution improved by a field-programmable-gate-array based pulse generator, Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 125104 (2018).
24.Xi Qin, L. Wang, D. Liu, Y. Zhao, X. Rong, and J. Du, “A 1.15-ps Bin Size and 3.5-ps Single-Shot Precision Time-to-Digital Converter With On-Board Offset Correction in an FPGA,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 64, no. 12, pp. 2951 – 2957, Dec. 2017.
25.Xi Qin, Zhifu Shi, et al. “An integrated device with high performance multi-function generators and time-to-digital convertors”, Review of Scientific Instruments, 88(1), 014702, 2017.
26.Xi Qin, Yijin Xie, et al. “High-Time-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance With Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers”, IEEE Magnetics Letters, 7, 2016.
27.Xi Qin, Changqing Feng, Deliang Zhang, et al. “Development of a high resolution TDC for implementation in flash-based and anti-fuse FPGAs for aerospace application”, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 60(5): 3550-3556, 2013.
28.Xi Qin, Changqing Feng, Deliang Zhang, et al. “A low dead time vernier delay line TDC implemented in an actel flash-based FPGA”, Nuclear Science and Techniques”, 24(4): 40403-040403, 2013.
29.Xi Qin, Shubin Liu, Qi An, An USB-based time measurement system, Nuclear Science and Techniques, 21(6): 366-369, 2010.
30.Xi Qin, Changqing Feng, Deliang Zhang, et al. Multi-Time Averaging TDCs Implemented in an Actel Flash-Based FPGA, Applied Mechanics and Materials. Trans Tech Publications, 336: 9-18, 2013.
31.Xi Qin, Changqing Feng, Lei Zhao, et al. Development of high resolution TDC implemented in radiation tolerant FPGAs for aerospace application, 18th IEEE-NPSS. IEEE, 2012.