Tianyang Shen

PhD student

Telephone

Paul Scherrer Institute PSI
Forschungsstrasse 111
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland

Biography

Tianyang Shen is a PhD student in the Quantum Photon Science group at the Paul Scherrer Institut. His current research focuses on quantum computing based on erbium-doped crystals using optical control. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in chemistry jointly from Nanjing Tech University and the University of Sheffield, and Master's in theoretical and computational chemistry from the University of Oxford. Then, he spent one year as research assistant at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academic of Sciences, where his work was on quantum manipulation in the diamond nitrogen-vacancy system.

Projects

Rare-earth quantum magnets

Quantum computers utilize the superposition principle of quantum objects: the property of being in a combination of different states simultaneously. They promise groundbreaking capabilities due to their inherent exponential scaling and are attracting attention across many fields of physics and beyond. Several routes are pursued to realize a universal quantum computer, and here our current scheme is based on rare-earth ions doped in crystals.

Publications

Cu-based metal–organic framework HKUST-1 as effective catalyst for highly sensitive determination of ascorbic acid
T. Shen, T. Liu, H. Mo, Z. Yuan, F. Cui, Y. Jin and X. Chen
RSC Adv. 10, 22881 (2020)