Quantum International Frontiers 15-18 October, 2026,
Changsha, Hunan Province, P.R. China.

On the occasion of the 88^thAnniversary of the founding of
Hunan Normal University.

About Quantum International Frontiers 2026

Quantum International Frontiers 2026 will include sessions on:

Session titles:
- Microcavity photonics and Quantum Sensing
- Quantum Modelling for Energy Conversion and Storage
- Developments in Theoretical Quantum Chemical Physics
- Plasmas and Particles in Chemistry and Physics
- Molecular and Nano-materials for Electronics
- Quantum Effects and Applications
- Relativistic Effects for Quantum Chemistry
- Spectroscopy, Molecular Structure and Dynamics
- Quantum Frontiers and Green Chemistry
- Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields
- Developments in Theoretical Concepts in Quantum Chemistry
- Macromolecular chemistry synthesis, assembly and properties

Traditional and non-traditional lecture formats and poster sessions will be implemented in this conference.

Frontier lecture: 60 minutes: 30 minutes invited talk immediately followed by 30 minutes of audience discussion. The lecture material should be of a pedagogic level and submitted by 2026/08/01 for distribution to the Q.I. Frontiers audience. Limited numbers of slots available.

Pavlo O. Dral: AI Scientists for Quantum Chemical Simulations
Zhonghan Hu: The Finite Coulomb Lattice Sum (click title for downloadable PDF)
Tomasz A Wesolowski: Multiplicative embedding potentials for multi-scale simulations of electronic properties: exact properties and approximations (click title for downloadable PDF)
Hong Jiang: Recent developments of density-matrix based quantum embedding approaches to strongly correlated systems
Yun-Feng Xiao: Ultra-high-Q Microcavity Optics & Photonics
Chao-Hong Lee:
Xiaosong Ma:

Pedagogical lecture: 45 minutes: The lecture material (PPTs, PDF) must be at a level suitable for final year undergraduate students and the audience may interrupt the speakers. There should be no jargon or unexplained acronyms. Limited numbers of slots available.

Dongqing Wei:AI drug discovery with quantum computing
Maxim Gelin: Femtosecond nonlinear spectroscopy from the point of view of a theoretician.
John M. Herbert: Large-Scale, High-Accuracy Quantum Chemistry via Fragmentation
Tiancai Zhang: Neutral atom array and its strong coupling to an optical cavity
Denis Sh. Sabirov: Polarizability of fullerenes and polycyclic aromatics. From DFT to materials science and astrochemistry
Julia Contreras-García:

Invited lecture: 30 minutes (25 minutes talk, 5 minutes for questions)

Cheol Ho Choi: MRSF-TDDFT and Beyond
Xiaoyan Cao: New Developments and Applications of Relativistic Energy-consistent Pseudopotentials
Elfi Kraka: From Phonon Bands to Bonds: Wavevector-Resolved and Wannier-Type Local Vibrational Mode Analysis
Libor Veis: Projection-Based DMRG-in-DFT Embedding for Strongly Correlated Molecular Systems
Sidian Li: Fluxional Covalent Bonds, Hydrogen Bonds, and Halogen Bonds in Chemistry
Michael Dolg: Investigation of medium-sized methane clusters with quantum chemical first principles and ab initio calculations
Timothy Hele: A Radical Approach to Machine Learning and Electronic Structure Theory
Keyu Xia: Singularity-enhanced sublinear sensing with linear sensors
Peifeng Su: A Low-Scaling Tensor Decomposition Framework for Accurate Electronic Structure: Block Tensor Decomposition and its Applications in Electron Correlation Methods
Wenjie Dou: Memory kernel coupling theory to quantum dynamics
Jianqi Zhang: Experimental witness of quantum jump induced high-order Liouvillian exceptional points
Yasuteru Shigeta: An Integrated Computational Chemistry Workflow for Drug Discovery and Protein Function Analysis
James Anderson: The Impact of Scalar Relativity and Electron Correlation on QTAIM Properties
Yang Guo: Multi-reference Methods for Large Active Spaces and Relativistic effects
Xiguang Wang: Electrically tunable non-Hermitian magnon propagation in magnetic waveguides
Ireneusz Grabowski: An Evaluation and Development of the Hybrid KS DFT Functionals Based on the KS Exchange-Correlation Potentials - the UMK26 hybrid functional
Yonggang Yang: Ultrafast charge migration: simulations, manipulations, and applications
Yuanhao Mao: Chiral laser gyroscopes breaking the lock-in limit
Jin-Lei Wu : Superadiabatic engineering of quantum state transfer across multi‑state platforms
Yafeng Jiao: Enabling Strong Molecule-Light Entanglement at Room Temperature with Molecular Cavity Optomechanics
William Glover: Water Catalyzes the Decay of a Ground-State Twisted Intermediate During the Electronic Relaxation of Uracil
Michał Lesiuk: Rank-reduced coupled cluster theory
Ran Huang: Nonreciprocal and non-Hermitian photon blockade effects
Song Jianxin: Synthetic Chemistry of Porphyrinoids
Paul W. Ayers: The Seniority Quantum Number in Many-Body Quantum Mechanics
Yan Wang: Liquid photonic-molecule microlasers for ultrasensitive biosensing
Mikhail V. Polynski:
Sergey Kozlov:
Sławomir J Grabowski:
Troy van Voorhis:
Wenning Wang:
Xiao Yuan:
Dongping Zhong:
Cristina Trujillo del Valle:
Fernando Buendia Zamudio :

Posters

Zhongyu Liu: Equation-of-motion method and simulation of six-wave-mixing signals of excitionic trimer
Raj Roy: Radiosensitizing potential of halo-uracils via low-energy electrons: A simulation study
Alireza Lashkaripour: Quintet Mixed-Reference Spin-Flip (QMRSF) Theory: A New Framework for Strong Correlation
Bahodurov Janobiddinkhuja: Interfacial Design Rules for Oxide/Metal Composite Catalysts: A DFT Screening for Water Splitting and CO2 Reduction
Xinmiao Li: Theoretical study of internal conversion through the prism of six-wave-mixing spectroscopy
Weixi Wu: Exploring Singlet Fission Characteristics via Simulations of Six-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy
Igor Sawicki: Limits of self-consistent Double Hybrid DFT
Mateusz Witkowski: MERCE - Method-Space Correlation Energy Extrapolation
Jiawen Kong: Full symmetry-breaking of electronic and nuclear dynamics for low attosecond resolution of electronic chirality
Jingqin Tu: Low-Attosecond Resolution Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics: How Helical Electron Motion Drives Chiral Asymmetry

Important Deadlines

Deadline 1: 2026/04/30 Early bird registration - see below..
Deadline 2: 2026/09/01 Abstract submission deadline.
Deadline 3: 2026/09/20 Late registration - see below.

Mark up your calendars!

Quantum International Frontiers 2026 will be hosted by Hunan Normal University, specifically:

The Quantum Optics Lab of the Chinese Department of Education

The Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of the Ministry of Education

The Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA)

The College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering

QI Frontiers 2026 will be located in Changsha, capital city of Hunan Province.

Conference Committee and Sponsors

Joint Chair: Professor Samantha Jenkins, Director of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, (Hunan, China)
BEACON Research Group
College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA)
Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Lu, Yuelu Qu
CHANGSHA 410081, Hunan, P.R. CHINA.

samanthajsuman@gmail.com

Joint Chair: Professor Hui Jing, (Hunan, China),
Hunan Normal University

jinghui73@foxmail.com

Co-Chair: Professor Le-Man Kuang (匡乐满), (Hunan, China), Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA), Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China.

lmkuang@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Steven R. Kirk, (Hunan, China)

BEACON Research Group
College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Synergetic Innovation Center for Quantum Effects and Applications (SICQEA)
Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Lu, Yuelu Qu
CHANGSHA 410081, Hunan, P.R. CHINA.

Co-Chair: Professor Jianxin Song, (Hunan, China)

College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Hunan Normal University, 36 Lushan Lu, Yuelu Qu
CHANGSHA 410081, Hunan, P.R. CHINA.

jxsong@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Hongrong Liu, (Hunan, China),

hrliu@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Jieqiao Liao, (Hunan, China),

jqliao@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Zhihui Peng, (Hunan, China),

zhihui.peng@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Changliang Ren, (Hunan, China),

renchangliang@hunnu.edu.cn

Co-Chair: Professor Hai-Yan Wang, (Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China)

Frontier Graduate Prizes

A number of cash prizes, generously provided by Elsevier, will be awarded for the best student posters presented at the conference.

Abstract submission

NOTE: abstract submission deadline is listed above

Please download the Abstract Template (.docx format), complete the form, then email it to qifteam@quantum-int.org. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EMAIL ADDRESS ONLY *RECEIVES* EMAIL - you should not receive emails originating from this address.

Program

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Most recent update 2026/09/25 06:53 UTC+8

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Thursday

15-10

Friday 16-10

Saturday 17-10

Sunday 18-10

14:00

Registration

8:30

OPENING CEREMONY

Session Chair:

Sergey Kozlov

Session Chair:

John M. Herbert

Session Chair:

Jianxin Song

Session Chair:

Xiguang Wang

Session Chair:

Rui-Bo Jin

Session Chair:

Hui Jing

09:00

Elfi Kraka

08:00 Frontier lecture

Yun-Feng Xiao