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Yaodong Li

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Assistant Professor
Mechanical Engineering

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Physics

Pronouns: he/him

Education

  • PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara (2022)
  • BSc, Fudan University (2016)

Previous appointments

  • Bloch Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University (2022-2025)

Research Statement

My research interests lie at the intersection of quantum information and many-body physics. I have explored novel collective dynamics of non-equilibrium quantum systems, and seeks to advance the development of robust quantum information processors.

Select publications

  1. Wojciech De Roeck, Vedika Khemani, Yaodong Li, Nicholas O’Dea, Tibor Rakovszky. “Low-Density Parity-Check Stabilizer Codes as Gapped Quantum Phases: Stability under Graph-Local Perturbations”. PRX Quantum 6, 030330 (2025).
  2. Adithya Sriram, Nicholas O’Dea, Yaodong Li, Tibor Rakovszky, Vedika Khemani. “Rare events and Griffiths phases in topological quantum error correction”. Phys. Rev. B 111, 224208 (2025).
  3. Yaodong Li, Nicholas O’Dea, Vedika Khemani. “Perturbative stability and error correction thresholds of quantum codes”. PRX Quantum 6, 010327 (2025). Selected for the PRX Quantum Collection celebrating the Interna- tional Year of Quantum (IYQ)
  4. Hirsh Kamakari, Jiace Sun, Yaodong Li, Jonathan J. Thio, Tanvi P. Gujarati, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Mario Motta, Austin J. Minnich. “Experimental demonstration of scalable cross-entropy benchmarking to detect measurement- induced phase transitions on a superconducting quantum processor”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 120401 (2025)
  5. Yaodong Li, Curt W. von Keyserlingk, Guanyu Zhu, Tomas Jochym-O’Connor. “Phase diagram of the three- dimensional subsystem toric code”. Phys. Rev. Research 6, 043007 (2024)
  6. Jacob Hauser, Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Continuous symmetry breaking in adaptive quantum dynamics”. Phys. Rev. B 109, 214305 (2024)
  7. Lorenzo Piroli, Yaodong Li, Romain Vasseur, Adam Nahum. “Triviality of quantum trajectories close to a directed percolation transition”. Phys. Rev. B 107, 224303 (2023).
  8. Matteo Ippoliti, Yaodong Li, Tibor Rakovszky, Vedika Khemani. “Operator relaxation and the optimal depth of classical shadows”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 230403 (2023).
  9. Yaodong Li, Yijian Zou, Paolo Glorioso, Ehud Altman, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Cross Entropy Benchmark for Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 220404 (2023).
  10. Yaodong Li, Romain Vasseur, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Andreas W. W. Ludwig. “Statistical Mechanics Model for Clifford Random Tensor Networks and Monitored Quantum Circuits”. Phys. Rev. B 109, 174307 (2024). Editors’ Suggestion
  11. Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Decodable hybrid dynamics of open quantum systems with Z2 symmetry”. Phys. Rev. B 108, 214302 (2023). Editors’ Suggestion
  12. Zhi-Cheng Yang, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Xiao Chen. “Entanglement phase transitions in random sta- bilizer tensor networks”. Phys. Rev. B 105, 104306 (2022). Editors’ Suggestion
  13. Yaodong Li, Sagar Vijay, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Entanglement Domain Walls in Monitored Quantum Circuits and the Directed Polymer in a Random Environment”. PRX Quantum 4, 010331 (2023).
  14. Shengqi Sang, Yaodong Li, Xiao Chen, Tianci Zhou, Timothy H. Hsieh, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Entanglement Negativity at Measurement-Induced Criticality”. PRX Quantum 2, 030313 (2021).
  15. Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Statistical mechanics of quantum error correcting codes”. Phys. Rev. B 103, 104306 (2021). Editors’ Suggestion
  16. Xiao Chen, Yaodong Li, Matthew P. A. Fisher, Andrew Lucas. “Emergent conformal symmetry in nonunitary random dynamics of free fermions”. Phys. Rev. Research 2, 033017 (2020). Editors’ Suggestion
  17. Yaodong Li, Xiao Chen, Andreas W.W. Ludwig, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Conformal invariance and quantum non- locality in hybrid quantum dynamics”. Phys. Rev. B 104, 104305 (2021). Editors’ Suggestion
  18. Yaodong Li, Xiao Chen, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Measurement-driven entanglement transition in hybrid quantum circuits”. Phys. Rev. B 100, 134306 (2019). Editors’ Suggestion
  19. Yaodong Li, Xiao Chen, Matthew P. A. Fisher. “Quantum Zeno effect and the many-body entanglement transition”. Phys. Rev. B 98, 205136 (2018).

Honors & awards

  • Frontiers of Science Award, The Inaugural International Congress of Basic Science (ICBS), Beijing 2023
  • Bloch Postdoctoral Fellowship in Quantum Science and Engineering, Stanford University (2022)
  • Pat and Joe Yzurdiaga Graduate Student Fellowship, UC Santa Barbara (2017)