Publications

Preprints

• Thermal operations from informational equilibrium

  S. H. Lie, J. Son, P. Boes, N. H. Y. Ng, and H. Wilming
  arXiv:2507.16637 (2025)

  selected as a Quantum Resources 2026 talk (speaker: Seok Hyung Lie)

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• Grover's algorithm is an approximation of imaginary-time evolution

  Y. Suzuki, M. Gluza, J. Son, B. H. Tiang, N. H. Y. Ng, and Z. Holmes
  arXiv:2507.15065 (2025)

  selected as an IPS meeting 2025 talk (speaker: Bi Hong Tiang)

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• Double-bracket algorithm for quantum signal processing without post-selection

  Y. Suzuki, B. H. Tiang, J. Son, N. H. Y. Ng, Z. Holmes, and M. Gluza
  arXiv:2504.01077 (2025)

  selected as an IPS meeting 2025 talk (speaker: Marek Gluza)

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• Robust Catalysis and Resource Broadcasting: The Possible and the Impossible

  J. Son, R. Ganardi, S. Minagawa, F. Buscemi, S. H. Lie, and N. H. Y. Ng
  arXiv:2412.06900 (2024)

  Quantum Resources 2025 invited talk (speaker: Nelly Ng)
  selected as an AQIS 2025 talk (speaker: Seok Hyung Lie)
  selected as an IPS meeting 2025 talk

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• Double-bracket quantum algorithms for quantum imaginary-time evolution

  M. Gluza, J. Son, B. H. Tiang, R. Zander, R. Seidel, Y. Suzuki, Z. Holmes, and N. H. Y. Ng
  accepted in Phys. Rev. Lett. [arXiv]

  selected as a Quantum Thermodynamics 2025 talk
  selected as an IPS meeting 2025 (invited) talk

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• Double-bracket quantum algorithms for high-fidelity ground state preparation

  M. Robbiati ❋, E. Pedicillo ❋, A. Pasquale ❋, L. Xiaoyue ❋, O. Kiss ❋, A. Wright, R. M. S. Farias, K. U. Giang, J. Son, J. Knörzer, S. T. Goh, J. Y. Khoo, N. H. Y. Ng, Z. Holmes, S. Carrazza, and M. Gluza
  ❋: co-first authors
  arXiv:2408.03987 (2024)

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2025

• Quantum Dynamic Programming

  J. Son, M. Gluza, R. Takagi, and N. H. Y. Ng
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 180602 (2025) [arxiv]

  honourable mentions for Top quantum algorithms papers in Spring 2024 by PennyLane (Xanadu)
  selected as an IPS meeting 2024 talk

  media coverage: CQT highlight article

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2024

• A hierarchy of thermal processes collapses under catalysis

  J. Son and N. H. Y. Ng
  Quantum Sci. Technol. 10, 015011 (2024) [arXiv]

  selected as a part of AQIS 2023 talk
  selected as a Quantum Resources 2023 talk
  selected as a Beyond IID 2024 talk

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• Entanglement generation from athermality

  A. de Oliveira Junior ❋, J. Son ❋, J. Czartowski, and N. H. Y. Ng
  ❋: co-first authors
  Phys. Rev. Research 6, 033236 (2024)

  selected as an IPS meeting 2024 talk
  selected as a Quantum Resources 2025 talk

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• Catalysis in action via elementary thermal operations

  J. Son and N. H. Y. Ng
  New J. Phys. 26, 033029 (2024)

  selected as a Quantum Resources 2022 talk
  selected as a part of AQIS 2023 talk

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2022

• Charging quantum batteries via Otto machines: Influence of monitoring

  J. Son, P. Talkner, and J. Thingna
  Phys. Rev. A 106, 052202 (2022) [arXiv]

  selected as an ICE-7 lightning talk
  selected as a part of QTD 2022 talk (speaker: Juzar Thingna)

2021

• Monitoring Quantum Otto Engines

  J. Son, P. Talkner, and J. Thingna
  PRX Quantum 2, 040328 (2021)

  selected as a part of QTD 2022 talk (speaker: Juzar Thingna)

  press release and media coverages: PHYS.ORG, Science Daily

PhD Thesis

• Quantum Qomrades: Catalysts in Resource Theories and Memories in Dynamic Programming

  Nanyang Technological University (2025)

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