Yunseong Nam

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Postdoctoral Scholar (2016-2017)
3105 Atlantic Building
(301) 314-1694

Yunseong Nam was a postdoctoral associate in QuICS from 2016-2017.

His research focused on streamlining and optimizing quantum circuitries, from a smallest possible single-qubit gate to a macroscopic circuit, such as Shor's algorithm. Via extensive numerical simulations, confirmed by analytical results, Nam shows that many of quantum circuits, including one that corresponds to Shor's algorithm, may be pruned and optimized to a great extent. His current projects include investigating the error-resistance of a variety of architectures of quantum circuitries whose ideal, mathematical function is the same, determining which architectures to use in a practical, realistic setting when running a certain quantum code on a quantum computer.

Nam received his doctoral degree in physics from Wesleyan University in 2016. After QuICS, he continued on to work with Christopher Monroe at IonQ.

Publications

2023

Q. Wang, Cian, Z. - P., Li, M., Markov, I. L., and Nam, Y., “Ever more optimized simulations of fermionic systems on a quantum computer”, 2023.

2021

D. Zhu, Cian, Z. - P., Noel, C., Risinger, A., Biswas, D., Egan, L., Zhu, Y., Green, A. M., Alderete, C. Huerta, Nguyen, N. H., Wang, Q., Maksymov, A., Nam, Y., Cetina, M., Linke, N. M., Hafezi, M., and Monroe, C., “Cross-Platform Comparison of Arbitrary Quantum Computations”, 2021.
Q. Wang, Li, M., Monroe, C., and Nam, Y., “Resource-Optimized Fermionic Local-Hamiltonian Simulation on Quantum Computer for Quantum Chemistry”, Quantum, vol. 5, no. 509, 2021.
N. Grzesiak, Maksymov, A., Niroula, P., and Nam, Y., “Efficient quantum programming using EASE gates on a trapped-ion quantum computer”, 2021.
D. Zhu, Kahanamoku-Meyer, G. D., Lewis, L., Noel, C., Katz, O., Harraz, B., Wang, Q., Risinger, A., Feng, L., Biswas, D., Egan, L., Gheorghiu, A., Nam, Y., Vidick, T., Vazirani, U., Yao, N. Y., Cetina, M., and Monroe, C., “Interactive Protocols for Classically-Verifiable Quantum Advantage”, 2021.

2020

Y. Nam, Su, Y., and Maslov, D., “Approximate Quantum Fourier Transform with O(nlog(n)) T gates”, npj Quantum Information , vol. 6, no. 26, 2020.

2019

O. Shehab, Landsman, K. A., Nam, Y., Zhu, D., Linke, N. M., Keesan, M. J., Pooser, R. C., and Monroe, C. R., “Toward convergence of effective field theory simulations on digital quantum computers”, 2019.
Y. Nam, Chen, J. - S., Pisenti, N. C., Wright, K., Delaney, C., Maslov, D., Brown, K. R., Allen, S., Amini, J. M., Apisdorf, J., Beck, K. M., Blinov, A., Chaplin, V., Chmielewski, M., Collins, C., Debnath, S., Ducore, A. M., Hudek, K. M., Keesan, M., Kreikemeier, S. M., Mizrahi, J., Solomon, P., Williams, M., Wong-Campos, J. David, Monroe, C., and Kim, J., “Ground-state energy estimation of the water molecule on a trapped ion quantum computer”, 2019.

2018

Y. Nam, Ross, N. J., Su, Y., Childs, A. M., and Maslov, D., “Automated optimization of large quantum circuits with continuous parameters”, npj:Quantum Information, vol. 4, no. 23, 2018.
A. M. Childs, Maslov, D., Nam, Y., Ross, N. J., and Su, Y., “Toward the first quantum simulation with quantum speedup”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 115 , pp. 9456-9461, 2018.

2017

D. Maslov and Nam, Y., “Use of global interactions in efficient quantum circuit constructions”, New Journal of Physics, 2017.
Y. Nam and Blümel, R., “Optimal length of decomposition sequences composed of imperfect gates”, Quantum Information Processing, vol. 16, p. 123, 2017.