Publications

  1. Changyu Yao*, Yinyao Shi*, Ji-In Jung, Zoltan Vaci, Yizhou Wang, Zhongyuan Liu, Yue Yu, Chuanwei Zhang, Sonia Tikoo-Schantz, Chong Zu†. Universal Reconstruction of Complex Magnetic Profiles with Minimum Prior Assumptions. Preprints: arXiv:2411.18882 (2024)
  2. Wonjae Lee, Vincent S. Liu, Zhelun Zhang, Sangha Kim, Ruotian Gong, Xinyi Du, Khanh Pham, Thomas Poirier, Zeyu Hao, James H. Edgar, Philip Kim, Chong Zu, Emily J. Davis, Norman Y. Yao. Intrinsic high-fidelity spin polarization of charged vacancies in hexagonal boron nitride. Preprint: arXiv:2406.11953 (2024)
  3. Zhongyuan Liu*, Ruotian Gong*, Benchen Huang*, Yu Jin, Xinyi Du, Guanghui He, Eli Janzen, Li Yang, Erik Henriksen, James Edgar, Giulia Galli, Chong Zu†. Temperature dependent spin-phonon coupling of boron-vacancy centers in hexagonal boron nitride. Preprint: arXiv:2404.15493 (2024)
  4. Guanghui He*, Bingtian Ye*,† , Ruotian Gong, Changyu Yao, Zhongyuan Liu, Kater W. Murch, Norman Y. Yao, Chong Zu†. Experimental Realization of Discrete Time Quasi-Crystals. Preprint: arXiv:2403.17842 (2024)
  5. Shiva Iyer*, Changyu Yao*, Olivia Lazorik*, Md Shakil Bin Kashem, Pengyun Wang, Gianna Glenn, Michael Mohs, Yinyao Shi, Michael Mansour, Erik Henriksen, Kater Murch, Shankar Mukherji†, Chong Zu†. Optically-trapped-nanodiamond relaxometric detection of nanomolar paramagnetic spins in aqueous environments. Physical Review Applied 22, 064076 (2024) (Editors’ Suggestion). Preprint: arXiv:2401.17372 (2024)
  6. Yuanbin Jin, Kunhong Shen, Peng Ju, Xingyu Gao, Chong Zu, Alejandro J. Grine, Tongcang Li. Quantum control and Berry phase of electron spins in rotating levitated diamonds in high vacuum. Nature Communications 15, 5064 (2024). Preprint: arXiv:2309.05821
  7. 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, N. Y. Yao. Imaging the Meissner effect and flux trapping in a hydride superconductor at megabar pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor. Nature 627, 73 (2024). Preprint: arXiv:2306.03122

    See also the Views & News on Nature.
  8. Ruotian Gong*, Xinyi Du*, Eli Janzen, Vincent Liu, Zhongyuan Liu, Guanghui He, Bingtian Ye, Tongcang Li, Norman Y. Yao, James H. Edgar, Erik A. Henriksen, Chong Zu†. Isotope engineering for spin defects in van der Waals materials. Nature Communications 15, 104 (2024). Preprint: arXiv:2307.06441.
  9. Guanghui He*, Bingtian Ye*,†, Ruotian Gong, Zhongyuan Liu, Kater W. Murch, Norman Y. Yao, Chong Zu†. Quasi-Floquet prethermalization in a disordered dipolar spin ensemble in diamond. Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 130401 (2023). Preprint: arXiv 2212.11284

    See also the highlight on Phys.org.
  10. Ruotian Gong, Guanghui He, Xingyu Gao, Peng Ju, Zhongyuan Liu, Erik A. Henriksen, Tongcang Li, Chong Zu†. Coherent Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Electronic Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Nature Communications 14, 3299 (2023). Preprint: arXiv:2210.11485

    See also the highlight on Phys.org.
  11. Emily J. Davis, Bingtian Ye, Francisco Machado, Simon A. Meynell, Thomas Mittiga, William Schenken, Maxime Joos, Bryce Kobrin, Yuanqi Lyu, Dolev Bluvstein, Soonwon Choi, Chong Zu, Ania C. Bleszynski Jayich, Norman Y. Yao. Probing many-body noise in a strongly interacting two-dimensional dipolar spin system. Nature Physics 19, 836 (2023). Preprint: arXiv:2103.12742

    See also the viewpoint by Marina Radulaski and Victoria Norman, Physics 16, 1 (2023)

    Prior to WUSTL
  12. Chong Zu*, Francisco Machado*, Bingtian Ye*, Soonwon Choi, Bryce Kobrin, Thomas Mittiga, Satcher Hsieh, Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Matthew Markham, Dan Twitchen, Andrey Jarmola, Dmitry Budker, Chris R. Laumann, Joel E. Moore, Norman Y. Yao. Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble. Nature 597, 45-50 (2021).

    See also the highlight by Phillip Ball on Physics World.
  13. M. Block, B. Kobrin, A. Jarmola, S. Hsieh, C. Zu, N. L. Figueroa, V. M. Acosta, J. Minguzzi, J. R. Maze, D. Budker, N. Y. Yao. Optically Enhanced Electric Field Sensing using Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensembles. Phys. Rev. Applied 16, 024024 (2021).

    Selected as Editors’ Suggestion.
  14. S. Hsieh*, P. Bhattacharyya*, C. Zu*, T. Mittiga, T. J. Smart, F. Machado, B. Kobrin, T. O. Hoehn, N. Z. Rui, M. Kamrani, S. Chatterjee, S. Choi, M. Zaletel, V. V. Struzhkin, J. E. Moore, V. I. Levitas, R. Jeanloz, N. Y. Yao. Imaging stress and magnetism at high pressure using a nanoscale quantum sensor. Science 336, 6471, 1349-1354(2019)

    See also the perspective by James J. Hamlin and Brian B. Zhou, Science 336, 6471, 1312-1313 (2019)
  15. T. Mittiga*, S. Hsieh*, C. Zu*, B. Kobrin, F. Machado, P. Bhattacharyya, N. Z. Rui, A. Jarmola, S. Choi, D. Budker, N. Y. Yao. Imaging the local charge environment of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond. Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 246402 (2018)

    Selected as Editors’ Suggestion.
    See also the viewpoint by Ania Jayich, Physics 11, 126 (2018).
  16. J. Cotler, L.-M. Duan, P.-Y. Hou, F. Wilczek, D. Xu, Z.-Q. Yin, C. Zu. Experimental test of entangled histories. Annals of Physics 387, 334-347 (2017)
  17. F. Wang, Y.-Y. Huang, Z.-Y. Zhang, C. Zu, P.-Y. Hou, X.-X. Yuan, W.-B. Wang, W.-G. Zhang, L. He, X.-Y. Chang, L.-M. Duan. Room-temperature storage of quantum entanglement using decoherence-free subspace in a solid-state spin system. Phys. Rev. B. 96, 134314 (2017)
  18. J. Tu, T. Li, S. Chen, C. Zu, Z. Gu. Exploring efficient strategies for Minesweeper. Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2017), San Francisco, California USA, 4-9 Feburary (2017)
  19. F. Wang, C. Zu, L. He, W.-B. Wang, W.-G. Zhang, L.-M. Duan. Experimental realization of robust dynamical decoupling with bounded controls in a solid-state spin system. Phys. Rev. B. 94, 064304 (2016)
  20. P.-Y. Hou, Y.-Y. Huang, X.-X. Yuan, X.-Y. Chang, C. Zu, L. He, L.-M. Duan. Quantum teleportation from light beams to vibrational states of a macroscopic diamond. Nature Communications 7, 11736 (2016)
  21. X.-X. Yuan, J.-J. Ma, P.-Y. Hou, X.-Y. Chang, C. Zu, L.-M. Duan. Experimental demonstration of a quantum router. Sci. Rep. 5, 12452 (2015)
  22. W.-B. Wang*, C. Zu*, L. He, W.-G. Zhang, L.-M. Duan. Memory-built-in quantum cloning in a hybrid solid-state spin register. Sci. Rep. 5, 12203 (2015)
  23. C. Zu, W.-B. Wang, L. He, W.-G. Zhang, C.-Y. Dai, F. Wang, L.-M. Duan. Experimental realization of universal geometric quantum gates with solid-state spins. Nature 514, 72 (2014)
  24. J.-J. Ma, X.-X. Yuan, C. Zu, X.-Y. Chang, P.-Y. Hou, L.-M. Duan. Experimental observation of entanglement duality for identical particles. New Journal of Physics, 16, 083011 (2014)
  25. C. Zu, D.-L. Deng, P.-Y. Hou, X.-Y. Chang, F. Wang, L.-M. Duan. Experimental distillation of quantum nonlocality. Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 050405 (2013)
  26. C. Zu, Y.-X. Wang, D.-L. Deng, X.-Y. Chang, K. Liu, P.-Y. Hou, H.-X. Yang, L.-M. Duan. Reply to Comment on State-independent experimental test of quantum contextuality in an indivisible system. Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 078902 (2013)
  27. C. Zu, Y.-X. Wang, D.-L. Deng, X.-Y. Chang, K. Liu, P.-Y. Hou, H.-X. Yang, L.-M. Duan. State-independent experimental test of quantum contextuality in an indivisible system. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 150401 (2012)

    See also the viewpoint by Matteo Paris and Mauro Paternostro, Physics 5, 113 (2012)
  28. C. Zu, Y.-X. Wang, X.-Y. Chang, Z.-H. Wei, S.-Y. Zhang, L.-M. Duan. Experimental demonstration of quantum gain in a zero-sum game. New Journal of Physics 14, 033002 (2012)