Prince passes candidacy
Prince passed his candidacy exam. He is doing great work, and the committee was very impressed. Keep an eye on upcoming papers from Prince. Congratulations, Prince!
Group updates
News
Papers, funding, talks, awards, and group milestones.
2026
Molecular excited states using quantum subspace methods
Sri's new preprint studies q-sc-EOM for accuracy, resource reduction, and error-mitigated hardware implementation. arXiv:2604.05380.
DOE ARPA-E QC3 award
The group is part of the 2026-2029 DOE ARPA-E QC3 project, "Quantum-Classical Ab Initio Co-Simulation of Unconventional Superconductors" with Infleqtion and NREL. The project totals $3.9M, with $600K supporting the Asthana Group. Project description.
APS March Meeting presentations
Sri and Prince presented talks at the APS March Meeting in Denver.
Sanibel Symposium plenary talk
Ayush gave a plenary talk, "Quantum algorithms for challenging problems in ground and excited state quantum chemistry", at the 65th Sanibel Symposium.
Prince wins Excellent Presenter award
Prince won the Excellent Presenter award at the ACS Red River Valley Conference.
Chemically decisive benchmarks preprint
Sri's preprint introduces benchmark systems for testing quantum algorithms in challenging correlation regimes. arXiv:2601.10813.
Sonal Jain joins the group
Welcome to Sonal Jain, who joined the Asthana Group as a Ph.D. student.
2025
Mushir Thodika joins the group
Dr. Mushir Thodika joined as a postdoctoral researcher, bringing experience in quantum chemistry and materials simulation.
Quantum Krylov using unitary decomposition
Ayush posted a new preprint on QKUD, a quantum Krylov formulation using unitary decomposition. arXiv:2512.11788.
Prince wins UND travel award
Prince won the Graduate Student Travel Award from UND to attend the APS March Meeting in Denver.
Graduate Student Travel Award
Prince won a Graduate Student Travel Award from the UND Division of Research and Economic Development to attend the Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference at Wayne State University.
University of Minnesota seminar
Ayush visited the University of Minnesota for a quantum information talk.
APS Global Meeting
The group attended the APS Global Meeting in Anaheim, California.
Generalized eigenvalue problem preprint
Prince's paper on the generalized eigenvalue problem in excited-state quantum subspace methods appeared as a preprint. arXiv:2503.09670.
2024
NSF EPSCoR Fellow award
The NSF EPSCoR Fellow award supports collaboration with Dr. Bo Peng at PNNL and development of quantum algorithms for early fault-tolerant quantum computers. NSF award.
Sean joins as an undergraduate researcher
Sean joined the group through a collaboration with Prof. Yen Lee Loh.
IEEE Quantum Week keynote
Ayush delivered a keynote talk at an IEEE Quantum Week workshop on chemical applications of quantum computing.
NSF ExpandQISE award
The group received an NSF ExpandQISE award in collaboration with Prof. Ed Barnes and Prof. Sophia Economou from Virginia Tech. NSF award.
Olusayo joins the group
Olusayo joined as a graduate student.
Sri joins the group
Dr. Srivathsan Sundar joined as a postdoctoral researcher in quantum computing applications in chemistry.
APS, NREL, and Concordia talks
Ayush gave invited talks at the APS March Meeting, NREL Questaal Workshop, and Concordia College.
2023
UND Early Career Grant
The group received UND Early Career Grant support in collaboration with Dr. Ahmed Abdelhadi and Dr. Mark Hoffmann. UND Today.
Amazon Braket research resources
Amazon Braket provided quantum and classical hardware resources to the group for research.
Invited talks in 2023
Ayush gave invited talks at IEEE Quantum Week, IIT Bombay, TIFR Mumbai, the University of Hyderabad, and UND Physics.
Prince joins the group
Prince Kwao joined the lab as a graduate student.