Center for Quantum Information, Tsinghua University

The Center for Quantum Information at Tsinghua University is a research center led by academician Luning Duan, who serves as its director . The center has incubated HYQubit (华翊量子), China's first company focused on trapped-ion quantum computing, which was founded in January 2022 and spun out from the center's research . Duan, an internationally renowned quantum information expert who returned to China full-time in 2018 at the invitation of Turing Award winner Andrew Yao, previously served as the center's executive director before becoming its director . The center's research team, comprising PhDs and postdocs from Tsinghua, USTC, and other institutions, has produced foundational work including the DLCZ quantum repeater protocol for long-distance quantum communication and the Duan-Kimble scheme for scalable quantum computing .