Publications

Below is a list of my publications and preprints in chronological order. You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

2026

• Universal Weakly Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation via Code Switching in the $[[8,3,2]]$ Code
  • Authors: Shixin Wu, D. Zhong, Todd. A. Brun, Daniel A. Lidar
  • Preprint in arXiv:2603.15610. Published in Phys. Rev. Research 8, 033380
• Protection of Exponential Operation using Stabilizer Codes in the Early Fault Tolerance Era
  • Authors: D. Zhong, Todd. A. Brun
  • Preprint in arXiv:2602.13399. Under peer review.

2025

• Combining Error Detection and Mitigation: A Hybrid Protocol for Near-Term Quantum Simulation
  • Authors: D. Zhong, William Munizzi, Huo Chen, Wibe. A. de Jong
  • Preprint in arXiv:2510.01181. Under peer review.

2024

• Classical optimization with imaginary time block encoding on quantum computers: The MaxCut problem
  • Authors: D. Zhong, Akhil Francis, and Ermal Rrapaj
  • Prerpint in arXiv:2411.10737. Published in Phys. Rev. A 112, 042420 (2025)
  • Code available at GitHub

2020

• Near to long-term forecasts in x-ray and gamma-ray bands: Are we entering the era of dark matter astronomy?
  • Authors: D. Zhong, Mauro Valli, and Kevork N. Abazajian
  • Preprint in arXiv:2003.00148. Published in Phys. Rev. D 102, 083008 (2020)