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Publications (27)

quant-ph2015

Complementarity relations for quantum coherence

Shuming Cheng, Michael J. W. Hall

Various measures have been suggested recently for quantifying the coherence of a quantum state with respect to a given basis. We first use two of these, the l_1-norm and relative e…

quant-ph2023

Device-independent verification of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering

Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Chao Zhang, Shuming Cheng +10

Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum mechanics, and has been identified an essential resource for diverse applications in quantum information. If entanglement could be verifie…

quant-ph2018

Experimental Verification of Anisotropic Invariance for Three-Qubit States

Jie Zhu, Meng-Jun Hu, Shuming Cheng +4

We experimentally test the recently predicted anisotropic invariance properties of pure three-qubit states, via generation and measurement of polarisation-path entangled three-qubi…

physics.optics2025

Point upsampling networks for single-photon sensing

Jinyi Liu, Guoyang Zhao, Lijun Liu +3

Single-photon sensing has generated great interest as a prominent technique of long-distance and ultra-sensitive imaging, however, it tends to yield sparse and spatially biased poi…

quant-ph2023

Tripartite entanglement measure under local operations and classical communication

Xiaozhen Ge, Lijun Liu, Shuming Cheng

Multipartite entanglement is an indispensable resource in quantum communication and computation, however, it is a challenging task to faithfully quantify this global property of mu…

quant-ph2021

Limitations on sharing Bell nonlocality between sequential pairs of observers

Shuming Cheng, Lijun Liu, Travis J. Baker +1

We give strong analytic and numerical evidence that, under mild measurement assumptions, two qubits cannot both be recycled to generate Bell nonlocality between multiple independen…

quant-ph2024

Experimental verification of the steering ellipsoid zoo via two-qubit states

Kai Xu, Lijun Liu, Ning-Ning Wang +6

Quantum steering ellipsoid visualizes the set of all qubit states that can be steered by measuring on another correlated qubit in the Bloch picture. Together with local reduced sta…

quant-ph2024

The polygon relation and subadditivity of entropic measures for discrete and continuous multipartite entanglement

Lijun Liu, Xiaozhen Ge, Shuming Cheng

In a recent work [Ge {\it et al.}, arXiv: 2312. 17496 (2023)], we have derived the polygon relation of bipartite entanglement measures that is useful to reveal the entanglement pro…

quant-ph2016

Volume monogamy of quantum steering ellipsoids for multi-qubit systems

Shuming Cheng, Antony Milne, Michael J. W. Hall +1

The quantum steering ellipsoid can be used to visualise two-qubit states, and thus provides a generalisation of the Bloch picture for the single qubit. Recently, a monogamy relatio…

physics.optics2026

Intensity-guided pose-free multiview fusion for single photon sensing

Jinyi Liu, Lijun Liu, Shuming Cheng +3

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) extends active three-dimensional sensing at the fundamental level and has found applications in extreme environments involving lon…

quant-ph2026

Resource-efficient quantum approximate optimization algorithm via Bayesian optimization and maximum-probability evaluation

Siran Zhang, Shuming Cheng

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) is a leading variational approach to combinatorial optimization, but its practical performance depends strongly on objective d…

quant-ph2017

Anisotropic invariance and the distribution of quantum correlations

Shuming Cheng, Michael J. W. Hall

We report the discovery of two new invariants for three-qubit states which, similarly to the 3-tangle, are invariant under local unitary transformations and permutations of the par…

quant-ph2018

Monogamy relations for nonclassical correlations of multi-qubit states

Shuming Cheng, Lijun Liu

Nonclassical correlations have been found useful in many quantum information processing tasks, and various measures have been proposed to quantify these correlations. In this work,…

math.OC2021

Quantized Primal-Dual Algorithms for Network Optimization with Linear Convergence

Ziqin Chen, Shu Liang, Li Li +1

This paper studies the network optimization problem about which a group of agents cooperates to minimize a global function under practical constraints of finite bandwidth communica…

quant-ph2025

The boundary of Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability

Lijun Liu, Shuming Cheng

The Kirkwood-Dirac (KD) quasiprobability describes measurement statistics of joint quantum observables, and has generated great interest as prominent indicators of non-classical fe…

quant-ph2022

Generalising the Horodecki criterion to nonprojective qubit measurements

Michael J. W. Hall, Shuming Cheng

The Horodecki criterion provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a two-qubit state to be able to manifest Bell nonlocality via violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt…

quant-ph2022

Recycling qubits for the generation of Bell nonlocality between independent sequential observers

Shuming Cheng, Lijun Liu, Travis J. Baker +1

There is currently much interest in the recycling of entangled systems, for use in quantum information protocols by sequential observers. In this work, we study the sequential gene…

quant-ph2019

Experimental Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Steering and Randomness Generation Beyond Qubits

Yu Guo, Shuming Cheng, Xiaomin Hu +6

In a measurement-device-independent or quantum-refereed protocol, a referee can verify whether two parties share entanglement or Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering without the…

quant-ph2019

Experimental validation of quantum steering ellipsoids and tests of volume monogamy relations

Chao Zhang, Shuming Cheng, Li Li +8

The set of all qubit states that can be steered to by measurements on a correlated qubit is predicted to form an ellipsoid---called the quantum steering ellipsoid---in the Bloch ba…

quant-ph2022

Quantum Steering: Practical Challenges and Perspectives

Yu Xiang, Shuming Cheng, Qihuang Gong +2

Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky (EPR) steering or quantum steering describes the "spooky-action-at-a-distance" that one party is able to remotely alter the states of the other if they shar…

quant-ph2024

Experimentally ruling out joint reality based on operational completeness

Qiuxin Zhang, Yu Xiang, Xiaoting Gao +9

Whether the observables of a physical system admit real values is of fundamental importance to a deep understanding of nature. In this work, we report a device-independent experime…

quant-ph2026

Estimation of a sparse multi-qubit Hamiltonian via compressed sensing

Juntao Tu, Yuanlong Wang, Shuming Cheng +2

Hamiltonian estimation is an effective approach in studying the structure and dynamical evolution of quantum systems. The difficulty in estimating the Hamiltonian is that an -qu…

quant-ph2026

Optimization landscapes of variational quantum algorithms

Xiaozhen Ge, Shuming Cheng, Guofeng Zhang +1

Optimization plays a central role in variational quantum algorithms, where the objective function typically takes the form $F(\boldsymbolθ)= \sum_{m=1}^{M} f_m \left(\mathrm{Tr}[U…

quant-ph2024

Efficient factored gradient descent algorithm for quantum state tomography

Yong Wang, Lijun Liu, Shuming Cheng +2

Reconstructing the state of quantum many-body systems is of fundamental importance in quantum information tasks, but extremely challenging due to the curse of dimensionality. In th…

quant-ph2014

High Precision Inertial Rotation Rate and Magnetic Field Estimate via Extended Kalman Filter

Lijun Liu, Bo Qi, Shuming Cheng +1

Recent developments of technology have enabled atomic spins as the most sensitive inertial and magnetic sensors. Atomic spin gyroscope (magnetometer) essentially outputs the estima…

quant-ph2024

Faithful geometric measures for genuine tripartite entanglement

Xiaozhen Ge, Lijun Liu, Yong Wang +4

We present a faithful geometric picture for genuine tripartite entanglement of discrete, continuous, and hybrid quantum systems. We first find that the triangle relation $\mathcal{…

quant-ph2021

Detecting quantum entanglement with unsupervised learning

Yiwei Chen, Yu Pan, Guofeng Zhang +1

Quantum properties, such as entanglement and coherence, are indispensable resources in various quantum information processing tasks. However, there still lacks an efficient and sca…