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most citedRealization of Quantum Spin Hall State in Monolayer 1T'-WTe2

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quant-ph2018★ 46 cited

Fiber-Optic quantum two-way time transfer with frequency entangled pulses

Feiyan Hou, Runai Quan, Ruifang Dong +8

High-precision time transfer is of fundamental interest in physics and metrology. Quantum time transfer technologies that use frequency-entangled pulses and their coincidence detec…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 115 cited

Valley Polarization and Inversion in Strained Graphene via Pseudo-Landau Levels, Valley Splitting of Real Landau Levels and Confined States

Si-Yu Li, Ying Su, Ya-Ning Ren +1

It is quite easy to control spin polarization and spin direction of a system via magnetic fields. However, there is no such a direct and efficient way to manipulate valley pseudosp…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 100 cited

Experimental identification of critical condition for drastically enhancing thermoelectric power factor of two-dimensional layered materials

Junwen Zeng, Xin He, Shi-Jun Liang +16

Nano-structuring is an extremely promising path to high performance thermoelectrics. Favorable improvements in thermal conductivity are attainable in many material systems, and the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 28 cited

Grain Boundaries in Chemical Vapor Deposited Atomically Thin Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Xibiao Ren, Jichen Dong, Peng Yang +8

Large-area two-dimensional (2D) materials for technical applications can now be produced by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Unfortunately, grain boundaries (GBs) are ubiquitously…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 2 cited

Tunable magnetism of a single-carbon vacancy in graphene

Yu Zhang, Fei Gao, Shiwu Gao +1

Removing a single-carbon vacancy introduces (quasi-)localized states for both and electrons in graphene. Interactions between the localized dangling bond and quasilocalized electro…

quant-ph2018★ 425 cited

12-photon entanglement and scalable scattershot boson sampling with optimal entangled-photon pairs from parametric down-conversion

Han-Sen Zhong, Yuan Li, Wei Li +17

Entangled photon sources with simultaneously near-unity heralding efficiency and indistinguishability are the fundamental elements for scalable photonic quantum technologies. We de…

quant-ph2018★ 131 cited

Experimental Quantum Switching for Exponentially Superior Quantum Communication Complexity

Kejin Wei, Nora Tischler, Si-Ran Zhao +13

Finding exponential separation between quantum and classical information tasks is like striking gold in quantum information research. Such an advantage is believed to hold for quan…

quant-ph2018★ 93 cited

Testing Local Realism into the Past without Detection and Locality Loopholes

Ming-Han Li, Cheng Wu, Yanbao Zhang +16

Inspired by the recent remarkable progress in the experimental test of local realism, we report here such a test that achieves an efficiency greater than (78%)^2 for entangled phot…

quant-ph2018★ 109 cited

Experimental demonstration of high-rate measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution over asymmetric channels

Hui Liu, Wenyuan Wang, Kejin Wei +13

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can eliminate all detector side channels and it is practical with current technology. Previous implementations of…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 170 cited

Coexistence of Intrinsic Superconductivity and Topological Insulator State in Monoclinic Phase WS2

Yuqiang Fang, Jie Pan, Dongqin Zhang +14

Recently, intriguing phenomena of superconductivity, type-II Weyl semimetal or quantum spin Hall states were discovered in metastable 1T'-type VIB-group transition metal dichalcoge…

quant-ph2018★ 261 cited

Device independent quantum random number generation

Yang Liu, Qi Zhao, Ming-Han Li +16

Randomness is critical for many information processing applications, including numerical modeling and cryptography. Device-independent quantum random number generation (DIQRNG) bas…

physics.app-ph2018★ 69 cited

Enhancing intrinsic detection efficiency of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors via helium ion irradiation

Weijun Zhang, Qi Jia, Lixing You +5

Realizing an NbN superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD) with a 100% intrinsic detection efficiency (IDE) at the near-infrared wavelengths is still challenging. Her…

quant-ph2018★ 3 cited

Experimental test of measurement dependent local Bell inequality with human free will

Yang Liu, Xiao Yuan, Cheng Wu +14

A Bell test can rule out local realistic models, and has potential applications in communications and information tasks. For example, a Bell inequality violation can certify the pr…

quant-ph2018★ 57 cited

Experimental demonstration of nonbilocality with truly independent sources and strict locality constraints

Qi-Chao Sun, Yang-Fan Jiang, Bing Bai +10

Entanglement swapping entangles two particles that have never interacted[1], which implicitly assumes that each particle carries an independent local hidden variable, i.e., the pre…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 71 cited

Superconductivity in half-Heusler compound TbPdBi

H. Xiao, T. Hu, W. Liu +6

We have studied the half-Heusler compound TbPdBi through resistivity, magnetization, Hall effect and heat capacity measurements. A semimetal behavior is observed in its normal stat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 23 cited

Origin of interfacial conductivity at complex oxide heterointerfaces: possibility of electron transfer from water chemistry at surface oxygen vacancies

Meng Zhang, Zheng Chen, Baohua Mao +6

Variety of conducting heterointerfaces have been made between SrTiO3 substrates and thin capping layers of distinctly different oxide materials that can be classified into polar ba…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 5 cited

Pressure tuned superconductivity and normal state behavior in Ba(FeCo)As near the antiferromagnetic boundary

W. Liu, Y. F. Wu, X. J. Li +8

Superconductivity in iron pnictides is unconventional and pairing may be mediated by magnetic fluctuations in the Fe-sublattice. Pressure is a clean method to explore superconducti…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 15 cited

Optical study of Dirac fermions and related phonon anomalies in antiferromagnetic compound CaFeAsF

B. Xu, H. Xiao, B. Gao +8

We performed optical studies on CaFeAsF single crystals, a parent compound of the 1111-type iron-based superconductors that undergoes a structural phase transition from tetragonal…

quant-ph2018★ 293 cited

Challenging local realism with human choices

The BIG Bell Test Collaboration, C. Abellán, A. Acín +105

A Bell test is a randomized trial that compares experimental observations against the philosophical worldview of local realism. A Bell test requires spatially distributed entanglem…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 55 cited

Experimental observation of bulk nodal lines and electronic surface states in ZrB

Rui Lou, Pengjie Guo, Man Li +14

Topological nodal-line semimetals are characterized by the line-contact bulk band crossings and the topological surface states. Breaking certain protecting symmetry turns this syst…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 35 cited

Photoemission Study of the Electronic Structure of Valence Band Convergent SnSe

C. W. Wang, Y. Y. Y. Xia, Z. Tian +17

IV-VI semiconductor SnSe has been known as the material with record high thermoelectric performance.The multiple close-to-degenerate valence bands in the electronic band structure…

cond-mat.str-el2018★ 29 cited

Charge Transfer Effects in Naturally Occurring van der Waals Heterostructures (PbSe)1.16(TiSe2)m (m=1, 2)

Q. Yao, D. W. Shen, C. H. P. Wen +11

Van der Waals heterostructures (VDWHs) exhibit rich properties and thus has potential for applications, and charge transfer between different layers in a heterostructure often domi…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 30 cited

Possible structural origin of superconductivity in Sr-doped Bi2Se3

Zhuojun Li, Meng Wang, Dejiong Zhang +13

Doping bismuth selenide (Bi2Se3) with elements such as copper and strontium (Sr) can induce superconductivity, making the doped materials interesting candidates to explore potentia…

cond-mat.supr-con2018★ 71 cited

Unveiling the superconducting mechanism of BaKBiO

C. H. P. Wen, H. C. Xu, Q. Yao +17

Bismuthates were the first family of oxide high-temperature superconductors, exhibiting superconducting transition temperatures (Tc) up to 32K, but the superconducting mechanism re…