Xinhua Peng
xhpeng@ustc.edu.cn
Education
1998-2003 Ph.D. in Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, CSA
1994-1998 Bachelor's Degree in Physics, Hunan Normal University
Experience
2008-Present Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
2005-2008 Research Fellow, Dortmund university of technology
2003-2005 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Dortmund university of technology
Overview of Academic Research
Prof. Peng has dedicated herself to spin-based quantum information processing, pioneering work on spin-based quantum information processing via magnetic resonance, and developing innovative ideas and methods for quantum control, quantum algorithms, quantum simulation, and quantum metrology. To date, she has published over 135 papers in prestigious journals such as Nature Physics, Science Advances, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review X, and Physical Review Letters, with more than 6,700 citations on Google Scholar.
Developed an ultra-high-sensitivity magnetic detection technique, setting a world record for sensitivity in the ultra-low-frequency band.
Pioneered bench-scale direct dark matter searches, surpassing observational limits in supernova astronomy.
Proposed quantum-classical collaborative optimization methodologies.
Implemented adiabatic quantum prime factorization algorithms, holding the world record for the largest integer factorized experimentally via quantum computing for ten consecutive years.
Conducted the first experimental simulations of prominent many-body quantum phenomena, including Lee-Yang zeros, out-of-time-order correlations, and topological phase transitions.
Revealed universal scaling in non-equilibrium quantum many-body dynamics of random spin models.
Research Directions/Fields:
NMR-Based Quantum Control, Computing & Simulation
NMR-Based Quantum Metrology
Zero- to Ultra-Low-Field NMR Spectroscopy
Semiconductor Spin Quantum Information Technology
Major Honors and Awards
2024 Natural Science Award of Anhui Province (First Prize)
2023 XPLORER Prize (Mathematics & Physics, First female recipient in the field)
2023 Outstanding Doctoral Supervisor Award, Chinese Academy of Sciences
2021 University President’s Award for Outstanding Research
2019 National Leading Innovation Talent
2019 National March 8th Red Banner Holder
2018 Anhui May 4th Youth Medal
2016 Chang Jiang Young Scholar
2016 Anhui May 1st Labor Medal, May 1st Female Pacemaker Exemplar
2015 China Young Women in Science Fellowship
Representative Publications
1.Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Yuanhong Wang, Ying Huang, Xinhua Peng, and Dmitry Budker. Amplification mechanism with interacting atomic gases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025, 122(19): e2419683122.
2.Haowen Su*, Shiju Hu*, Yang Ding, Yuanhong Wang, Min Jiang†, and Xinhua Peng. Limits on Anomalous Spin-Spin Interactions Using Noble-Gas Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. Phys. Rev. Lett., 134(22): 223201 (2025),
3.Haowen Su, Min Jiang, Yuanhong Wang, Ying Huang, Xiang Kang, Wei Ji, Xinhua Peng, and Dmitry Budker, New Constraints on Axion-Mediated Spin Interactions Using Magnetic Amplification. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 191801 (2024).
4.Ze Wu*, Changsheng Hu*, Tianyun Wang*, Yuquan Chen, Yuchen Li, Liqiang Zhao, Xin-You Lü, and Xinhua Peng, Experimental Quantum Simulation of Multicriticality in Closed and Open Rabi Model. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 173602 (2024).
5.Yuchen Li, Tian-Gang Zhou, Ze Wu, Pai Peng, Shengyu Zhang, Riqiang Fu, Ren Zhang, Wei Zheng, Pengfei Zhang, Hui Zhai, Xinhua Peng & Jiangfeng Du. Emergent universal quench dynamics in randomly interacting spin models. Nature Physics, 2024, 20(12): 1966-1972.
6.Minxiang Xu, Min Jiang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Ying Huang, and Xinhua Peng, Cooperative spin amplifier for enhanced quantum sensing. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 133202 (2024)
7.Qin, Yushu and Shao Zhenhan and Hong, Taizhou and Wang, Yuanhong and Jiang, Min and Peng, Xinhua*. New Classes of Magnetic Noise Self-Compensation Effects in Atomic Comagnetometer. Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 023202 (2024).
8.Min Jiang, Ying Huang, Chang Guo, Haowen Su, Yuanhong Wang, Xinhua Peng*, and Dmitry Budker. Observation of magnetic amplification using dark spins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2024, 121(17): e2315696121.
9.Min Jiang, Taizhou Hong, Dongdong Hu, Yifan Chen, Fengwei Yang, Tao Hu, Xiaodong Yang, Jing Shu*, Yue Zhao*, Xinhua Peng* & Jiangfeng Du. Long-baseline quantum sensor network as dark matter haloscope. Nat. Commun. 15(1): 3331 (2024).
10. Ze Wu, Ping Wang, Tianyun Wang, Yuchen Li, Ran Liu, Yuquan Chen, Xinhua Peng*, and Ren-Bao Liu*. Selective detection of dynamics-complete set of correlations via quantum channels. Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 200802 (2024).
11. Yuanhong Wang, Ying Huang, Chang Guo, Min Jiang*, Xiang Kang, Haowen Su, Yushu Qin, Wei Ji, Dongdong Hu, Xinhua Peng*, Dmitry Budker, Search for exotic parity-violation interactions with quantum spin amplifiers. Sci. Adv. 9, eade0353 (2023).
12. Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Min Jiang*, Ying Huang, Yushu Qin, Chang Guo, Zehao Wang, Dongdong Hu, Wei Ji, Pavel Fadeev, Xinhua Peng*, and Dmitry Budker. Limits on Axions and Axionlike Particles within the Axion Window Using a Spin-Based Amplifier. Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 051801 (2022).
13. Min Jiang, Yushu Qin, Xin Wang, Yuanhong Wang, Haowen Su, Xinhua Peng*, and Dmitry Budker. Floquet Spin Amplification. Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 233201 (2022).
14. Ran Liu, Yu Chen, Min Jiang, Xiaodong Yang, Ze Wu, Yuchen Li, Haidong* Yuan, Xinhua Peng* & Jiangfeng Du. Experimental critical quantum metrology with the Heisenberg scaling. Npj Quantum. Inform. 7, 170 (2021).
15. Min Jiang, Haowen Su, Antoine Garcon, Xinhua Peng* & Dmitry Budker. Search for axion-like dark matter with spin-based amplifiers. Nat. Phys. 17, 1402-+ (2021).
16. Xi Chen, Ze Wu, Min Jiang, Xin-You Lü*, Xinhua Peng* & Jiangfeng Du. Experimental quantum simulation of superradiant phase transition beyond no-go theorem via antisqueezing. Nat. Commun. 12, 6281 (2021).
17. Haowen Su, Yuanhong Wang#, Min Jiang*, Wei Ji, Pavel Fadeev, Dongdong Hu, Xinhua Peng*, Dmitry Budker. Search for exotic spin-dependent interactions with a spin-based amplifier. Sci. Adv. 7, eabi9535 (2021).
18. Min Jiang, Haowen Su, Ze Wu, Xinhua Peng, Dmitry Budker. Floquet maser. Sci. Adv. 7, eabe0719 (2021).
19. Xiaodong Yang, Jayne Thompson, Ze Wu, Mile Gu*, Xinhua Peng* & Jiangfeng Du. Probe optimization for quantum metrology via closed-loop learning control. Npj Quantum. Inform. 6, 62 (2020).18)
20. H. Wang, Z. Ma, S. Wu, W. Zheng, Z. Cao, Z. Chen, Z. Li, S.-M. Fei, X. Peng, V. Vedral, and J. Du. Uncertainty equality with quantum memory and its experimental verification. npj Quantum Information 5, 39 (2019).
21. Zhaokai Li, Xiaomei Liu, Hefeng Wang, Sahel Ashhab, Jiangyu Cui, Hongwei Chen, XinhuaPeng, and Jiangfeng Du, Quantum Simulation of Resonant Transitions for Solving the Eigen-problem of an Effective Water Hamiltonian, Physical Review Letters 122, 090504 (2019).
22. Ping Wang, Chong Chen, Xinhua Peng, Jorg Wrachtrup, Ren-Bao Liu, Characterization of Arbitrary-Order Correlations in Quantum Baths by Weak Measurement, Physical Review Letters 123, 050603 (2019).
23. Zhihuang Luo, Jun Li, Zhaokai Li, Ling-Yan Hung, Yidun Wan, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimentally Probing Topological Order and Its Breakdown through Modular Matrices, Nature Physics 14, 160 (2018).
24. M. Jiang, T. Wu, J. W. Blanchard, G. Feng, X. Peng, and D. Budker, Experimental benchmarking of quantum control in zero-field nuclear magnetic resonance, Science Advances 4, eaar6327 (2018).
25. W. Zheng, Z. Ma, H. Wang, S.-M. Fei, and X. Peng, Experimental demonstration of observability and operability of robustness of coherence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 230504 (2018).
26. W.-L. Chang*, Q. Yu, Z. Li, J. Chen, X. Peng*, and M. Feng*, Quantum speedup in solving the maximal- clique problem, Phys. Rev. A 97, 032344 (2018).
27. J. Cui, J. Li, X. Liu, X. Peng and R. Fu, Engineering spin hamiltonians using multiple pulse sequences in solid state nmr spectroscopy, J. Magn. Resson. 294, 83 (2018).
28. Jun Li, Ruihua Fan, Hengyan Wang, Bingtian Ye, Bei Zeng, Hui Zhai, Xinhua Peng, Jiangfeng Du, Measuring out-of-time-order correlators on a nuclear magnetic resonance quantum simulator. Phys. Rev. X 7, 031011 (2017) [Featured in Physics, Selected for a Viewpoint in Physics].
29. Xi-Wei Yao, Hengyan Wang, Zeyang Liao, Ming-cheng Chen, Jian Pan, Jun Li, Kechao Zhang, Xingcheng Lin, Zhehui Wang, Zhihuang Luo, Wenqiang Zheng, Jianzhong Li, Meisheng Zhao, Xinhua Peng, and Dieter Suter, Quantum image processing and its application to edge detection: Theory and experiment, Phys. Rev. X 7, 031041(2017).
30. Ji Bian, Min Jiang, Jiangyu Cui, Xiaomei Liu, Botao Chen, Yunlan Ji, Bo Zhang, John Blanchard, Xinhua Peng and Jiangfeng Du,Universal Quantum Control in Zero-field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Phys. Rev. A 95, 052342 (2017).
31. Jiangyu Cui, Jun Li, Riqiang Fu and Xinhua Peng, Transient NOE Enhances Sensitivity of Low-$\gamma$ Nuclei in Solid-State MAS NMR of Mobile Systems, J. Magn. Reson. 284, 73 (2017).
32. Jun Li, Xiaodong Yang, Xinhua Peng, Changpu Sun, Hybrid Quantum-Classical Approach to Quantum Optimal Control, Physical Review Letters 118, 150503(2017).
33. J. Li, D.W. Lu , Z. H. Luo, R. Laflamme, X. H. Peng, and J. F. Du*, Maximally accessible purity in coherently controlled open quantum systems: application to quantum state engineering, Phys. Rev. A 94, 012312 (2016).
34. Jun Li, Jiangyu Cui, Raymond Laflamme, Xinhua Peng, Compilation of selective pulse network on liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance system, Phys. Rev. A 94, 032316 (2016).
35. Wenchao Ma, Zhihao Ma, Hengyan Wang, Zhihua Chen, Ying Liu, Fei Kong, Zhaokai Li, Xinhua Peng, Mingjun Shi, Fazhan Shi, Shao-Ming Fei, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimental Test of Heisenberg’s Measurement Uncertainty Relation Based on Statistical Distances, Physical Review Letters 116, 160405 (2016).
36. Xinhua Peng, Hui Zhou, Bo-Bo Wei, Jiangyu Cui, Jiangfeng Du, and Ren-Bao Liu, Experimental Observation of Lee-Yang Zeros, Physical Review Letters 114, 010601 (2015). highlight article.
37. Xinhua Peng, ZhihuangLuo, WenqiangZheng, Supeng Kou, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimental implementation of adiabatic passage between different topological orders, Physical Review Letters 113, 080404(2014).
38. Zhaokai Li, Hui Zhou, ChenyongJu, Hongwei Chen, WenqiangZheng, Dawei Lu, Xing Rong, Changkui Duan, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimental Realization of a Compressed Quantum Simulation of a 32-Spin Ising Chain, Physical Review Letters 112, 220501 (2014). highlight article.
39. NanyangXu, Jing Zhu, Dawei Lu, Xianyi Zhou, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du, Quantum Factorization of 143 on a Dipolar-Coupling Nuclear Magnetic Resonance System, Physical Review Letters 108, 130501 (2012).
40. Hongwei Chen, Dawei Lu, Bo Chong, Gan Qin, Xianyi Zhou, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du, Experimental Demonstration of Probabilistic Quantum Cloning, Physical Review Letters 106, 180404 (2011).
41. Dawei Lu, NanyangXu, RuixueXu, Hongwei Chen, Jiangbin Gong, Xinhua Peng, and Jiangfeng Du, Simulation of Chemical Isomerization Reaction Dynamics on a NMR Quantum Simulator, Physical Review Letters 107, 020501 (2011).
42. Jiangfeng Du, NanyangXu, Xinhua Peng, Pengfei Wang, Sanfeng Wu, and Dawei Lu, NMR Implementation of a Molecular Hydrogen Quantum Simulation with Adiabatic State Preparation, Physical Review Letters 104, 030502 (2010). highlight article
43. Xinhua Peng, Sanfeng Wu, Jun Li, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du, Observation of the Ground-State Geometric Phase in a Heisenberg XY Model, Physical Review Letters 105, 240405 (2010).
44. Fazhan Shi, Xing Rong, NanyangXu, Ya Wang, Jie Wu, Bo Chong, Xinhua Peng, JulianeKniepert, Rolf-Simon Schoenfeld, Wolfgang Harneit, MangFeng, and Jiangfeng Du, Room-Temperature Implementation of the Deutsch-Jozsa Algorithm with a Single Electronic Spin in Diamond, Physical Review Letters 105, 040504 (2010).
45. Xinhua Peng, Jingfu Zhang, Jiangfeng Du, and Dieter Suter, Quantum Simulation of a System with Competing Two- and Three-Body Interactions, Physical Review Letters 103, 140501 (2009).
46. Xinhua Peng, Zeyang Liao, NanyangXu, Gan Qin, Xianyi Zhou, Dieter Suter, and Jiangfeng Du, Quantum Adiabatic Algorithm for Factorization and Its Experimental Implementation, Physical Review Letters 101, 220405 (2008).
47. Jingfu Zhang, Xinhua Peng, Nageswaran Rajendran, and Dieter Suter:Detection of Quantum Critical Points by a Probe Qubit. Physical Review Letters. 100, 100501 (2008).