Publications

Preprint 2026 AI & Condensed Matter

Comment on "Spin-1/2 Kagome Heisenberg Antiferromagnet: Machine Learning Discovery of the Spinon Pair-Density-Wave Ground State"

H. Kamal, D. Kufel, D. Vu, C. Laumann, N. Yao

Comment on a recent machine-learning study of the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet. We show that the reported low variational energies arise from broken ergodicity in Metropolis–Hastings sampling thus calling the original claims into question.

PRL 2026 AI & Condensed Matter

Optimizing the dynamical preparation of quantum spin lakes on the ruby lattice

D. Vu*, D. Kufel*, J. Kemp, L. Pollet, C. Laumann, N. Yao

Physical Review Letters 137, 093402

Using neural networks we demonstrate that exotic phases can be dynamically prepared in Rydberg quantum simulators at specific length scales, contrary to the equilibrium predictions.

Preprint 2025 Quantum Computing & Condensed Matter

Hardness of recognizing phases of matter

T. Schuster*, D. Kufel*, N. Yao, H. Huang

Proven that distinguishing quantum phases of matter is exponentially hard in correlation length. This sets limits on capabilities of any quantum AI agents for phase recognition task.

Nature 2025 Quantum Sensing

Spin squeezing in an ensemble of nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond

W. Wu*, E. Davis*, L. Hughes, B. Ye, Z. Wang, D. Kufel, T. Ono, S. Meynell, M. Block, C. Liu, H. Yang, A. Bleszynski-Jayich, N. Yao

Nature 646, p. 74–80

Experimental paper on the first-to-date detection of spin squeezing in a solid state platform.

PRL★ Editor's Suggestion 2025 AI & Condensed Matter

Approximately-symmetric neural networks for quantum spin liquids

D. Kufel*, J. Kemp*, D. Vu, S. Linsel, C. Laumann, N. Yao

Physical Review Letters 135, 056702

Constructed tailor-made, scalable and interpretable neural network architectures for studying quantum spin liquid problems.

* equal contribution

2022 Classical Mechanics

Skier and loop the loop with friction

D. Kufel, A. Sokal

American Journal of Physics 90, 573

Developed analytical solutions to the extension of two ‘classic’ problems in classical mechanics.

2021 Atomic Physics

Alternative quantisation condition for wavepacket dynamics in a hyperbolic double well

D. Kufel, H. Chomet, C. Faria

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 54, 035304

Proposed a new analytical way of finding allowed energies in the class of hyperbolic-double well potentials by connecting it to a problem of finding roots of some polynomial. Applied this approach to understanding the role of non-adiabatic effects during enhanced ionization.

2019 AI

Online Learning and matching for resource allocation problems

A. Boskovic, Q. Chen, D. Kufel, Z. Zhou

SIAM SIURO vol. 13

Devised, provided performance guarantees, and implemented algorithms integrating dual problems in convex optimization with a subclass of reinforcement learning techniques. Applied these algorithms to the traffic-shaping problem.

2018 Computational Neuroscience

Analytical modelling of temperature effects on AMPA-type synapse

D. Kufel, G. Wojcik

Journal of Computational Neuroscience 44, 379-391

Used ODE-based modelling for understanding temperature effects on AMPA-type synapses in brain. Simplified the ODEs using some physically-motivated assumptions and shown how the obtained analytical solution faithfully reproduces the results of biological experiments.

  • Physical Review Letters (multiple times)
  • ICML — AI4Science Workshop
  • Physical Review A
  • Quantum Information Processing (QIP)
  • Quantum Computing Theory in Practice (QCTIP)

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