QO Group

Tilman Esslinger
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Zijie Zhu

ETH Zürich
Institute for Quantum Electronics
Quantum Optics Group
Otto Stern Weg 1, HPF D23
8093 Zürich
Switzerland

Tel.: +41

Email: zhuzi@student.ethz.ch

PhD student in the Lattice Team


Research Interest


Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Quantum simulation


Short CV


Since 07/2020: PhD student in Tilman Esslinger's group
10/19 - 04/20: Master thesis in Tilman Esslinger's group at ETH Zürich, Switzerland
09/18 - 06/20: Graduate studies in Physics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland
04/16 - 07/18: Research assistant in Xuzong Chen's group at Peking University, China
09/14 - 07/18: Undergraduate studies in Physics at Peking University, China


Publications


1 Protected quantum gates using qubit doublons in dynamical optical lattices
Yann Kiefer; Zijie Zhu; Lars Fischer; Samuel Jele; Marius Gächter; Giacomo Bisson; Konrad Viebahn; Tilman Esslinger
Arxiv preprint 2507.22112 (2025)
ArXiv: 🔗 link
2 Mitigating higher-band heating in Floquet-Hubbard lattices via two-tone driving
Chen, Yuanning, Zhu, Zijie, Viebahn, Konrad
Physical Review A, 112, L021301 (2025)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
3 Splitting and Connecting Singlets in Atomic Quantum Circuits
Zhu, Zijie, Kiefer, Yann, Jele, Samuel, Gächter, Marius, Bisson, Giacomo, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review X, 15, 041032 (2025)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
4 Splitting and connecting singlets in atomic quantum circuits
Zhu, Zijie, Kiefer, Yann, Jele, Samuel, Gächter, Marius, Bisson, Giacomo, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review X, No volume found, No page found (2025)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
5 Reversal of quantized Hall drifts at noninteracting and interacting topological boundaries
Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Science, 384, 317 (2024)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
6 Interactions Enable Thouless Pumping in a Nonsliding Lattice
Viebahn, Konrad, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Bertok, Eric, Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Aligia, Armando A., Heidrich-Meisner Fabian, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review X, 14, 021049 (2024)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
7 Quantization and its breakdown in a Hubbard–Thouless pump
Walter, Anne-Sophie, Zhu, Zijie, Gächter, Marius, Minguzzi, Joaquín, Roschinski, Stephan, Sandholzer, Kilian, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Nature Physics, 9, 1471 (2023)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
8 Topological Pumping in a Floquet-Bloch Band
Minguzzi, Joaquín, Zhu, Zijie, Sandholzer, Kilian, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review Letters, 129, 053201 (2022)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link
9 Floquet engineering of individual band gaps in an optical lattice using a two-tone drive
Sandholzer, Kilian, Walter, Anne-Sophie, Minguzzi, Joaquín, Zhu, Zijie, Viebahn, Konrad, Esslinger, Tilman
Physical Review Research, 4, 013056 (2022)
Paper: 🔗 link, ETHZ research collection: 🔗 link

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