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quant-ph2020★ 39 cited

Learning Quantum Hamiltonians from Single-qubit Measurements

Liangyu Che, Chao Wei, Yulei Huang +6

It is natural to measure the observables from the Hamiltonian-based quantum dynamics, and its inverse process that Hamiltonians are estimated from the measured data also is a vital…

quant-ph2020★ 95 cited

Observation of non-Hermitian topology with non-unitary dynamics of solid-state spins

Wengang Zhang, Xiaolong Ouyang, Xianzhi Huang +7

Non-Hermitian topological phases exhibit a number of exotic features that have no Hermitian counterparts, including the skin effect and breakdown of the conventional bulk-boundary…

quant-ph2020★ 2.3k cited

Quantum computational advantage using photons

Han-Sen Zhong, Hui Wang, Yu-Hao Deng +21

Gaussian boson sampling exploits squeezed states to provide a highly efficient way to demonstrate quantum computational advantage. We perform experiments with 50 input single-mode…

quant-ph2020★ 52 cited

Markovian Quantum Neuroevolution for Machine Learning

Zhide Lu, Pei-Xin Shen, Dong-Ling Deng

Neuroevolution, a field that draws inspiration from the evolution of brains in nature, harnesses evolutionary algorithms to construct artificial neural networks. It bears a number…

quant-ph2020★ 196 cited

A concise review of Rydberg atom based quantum computation and quantum simulation

Xiaoling Wu, Xinhui Liang, Yaoqi Tian +5

Quantum information processing based on Rydberg atoms emerged as a promising direction two decades ago. Recent experimental and theoretical progresses have shined exciting light on…

quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Quantum Algorithm for Lexicographically Minimal String Rotation

Qisheng Wang, Mingsheng Ying

Lexicographically minimal string rotation (LMSR) is a problem to find the minimal one among all rotations of a string in the lexicographical order, which is widely used in equality…

quant-ph2020★ 9 cited

Efficient entanglement generation and detection of generalized stabilizer states

Yihong Zhang, Yifan Tang, You Zhou +1

The generation and verification of large-scale entanglement are essential to the development of quantum technologies. In this paper, we present an efficient scheme to generate genu…

quant-ph2020★ 24 cited

Observation of many-body quantum phase transitions beyond the Kibble-Zurek mechanism

Qi Huang, Ruixiao Yao, Libo Liang +8

Quantum critical behavior of many-body phase transitions is one of the most fascinating yet challenging questions in quantum physics. Here, we improved the band-mapping method to i…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Recent advances on quantum key distribution overcoming the linear secret key capacity bound

Yingqiu Mao, Pei Zeng, Teng-Yun Chen

A crucial goal for quantum key distribution (QKD) is to transmit unconditionally secure keys over long distances. Previous studies show that the key rate of point-to-point QKD is l…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

General theory of quantum fingerprinting network

Ji-Qian Qin, Jing-Tao Wang, Yun-Long Yu +1

The purpose of fingerprinting is to compare long messages with low communication complexity. Compared with its classical version, the quantum fingerprinting can realize exponential…

quant-ph2020★ 146 cited

Robust shadow estimation

Senrui Chen, Wenjun Yu, Pei Zeng +1

Efficiently estimating properties of large and strongly coupled quantum systems is a central focus in many-body physics and quantum information theory. While quantum computers prom…

quant-ph2020★ 7 cited

Quantum versus Classical Regime in Circuit Quantum Acoustodynamics

Gang-hui Zeng, Yang Zhang, Aleksey N. Bolgar +8

We experimentally study a circuit quantum acoustodynamics system, which consists of a superconducting artificial atom, coupled to both a two-dimensional surface acoustic wave reson…

quant-ph2020★ 8 cited

Programmable Unitary Operations for Orbital Angular Momentum Encoded States

Shikang Li, Xue Feng, Kaiyu Cui +3

We have proposed and demonstrated a scalable and efficient scheme for programmable unitary operations in orbital angular momentum (OAM) domain. Based on matrix decomposition into d…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Protocols for creating and distilling multipartite GHZ states with Bell pairs

Sébastian de Bone, Runsheng Ouyang, Kenneth Goodenough +1

The distribution of high-quality Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states is at the heart of many quantum communication tasks, ranging from extending the baseline of telescopes to…

quant-ph2020★ 4 cited

Experimental Entanglement Quantification for Unknown Quantum States in a Semi-Device-Independent Manner

Yu Guo, Lijinzhi Lin, Huan Cao +9

Using the concept of non-degenerate Bell inequality, we show that quantum entanglement, the critical resource for various quantum information processing tasks, can be quantified fo…

quant-ph2020★ 204 cited

Bosonic quantum error correction codes in superconducting quantum circuits

W. Cai, Y. Ma, W. Wang +2

Quantum information is vulnerable to environmental noise and experimental imperfections, hindering the reliability of practical quantum information processors. Therefore, quantum e…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

High-efficiency arbitrary quantum operation on a high-dimensional quantum system

Weizhou Cai, Jiaxiu Han, Ling Hu +10

The ability to manipulate quantum systems lies at the heart of the development of quantum technology. The ultimate goal of quantum control is to realize arbitrary quantum operation…

quant-ph2020★ 162 cited

Differentiable Quantum Architecture Search

Shi-Xin Zhang, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Shengyu Zhang +1

Quantum architecture search (QAS) is the process of automating architecture engineering of quantum circuits. It has been desired to construct a powerful and general QAS platform wh…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Solving Klein's paradox

Huai-Yu Wang

We figure out the famous Klein's paradox arising from the reflection problem when a Dirac particle encounters a step potential with infinite width. The key is to piecewise solve Di…

quant-ph2020★ 14 cited

Loophole-free plug-and-play quantum key distribution

Ruoyang Qi, Haoran Zhang, Jiancun Gao +2

Robust, simple, and flexible quantum key distribution (QKD) is vital for realising practical applications of this technique. Contrary to typical phase-coded QKD schemes, the plug-a…

quant-ph2020★ 51 cited

Realizing a quantum generative adversarial network using a programmable superconducting processor

Kaixuan Huang, Zheng-An Wang, Chao Song +11

Generative adversarial networks are an emerging technique with wide applications in machine learning, which have achieved dramatic success in a number of challenging tasks includin…

quant-ph2020★ 2 cited

Quantifying Multipartite Quantum Entanglement in a Semi-Device-Independent Manner

Lijinzhi Lin, Zhaohui Wei

We propose two semi-device-independent approaches that are able to quantify unknown multipartite quantum entanglement experimentally, where the only information that has to be know…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Sending-or-not-sending twin-filed quantum key distribution with discrete phase modulation

Cong Jiang, Zong-Wen Yu, Xiao-Long Hu +1

We study the sending-or-not-sending (SNS) protocol with discrete phase modulation of coherent states. We first make the security of the SNS protocol with discrete phase modulation.…

quant-ph2020★ 18 cited

High Fidelity Entangling Gates in a 3D Ion Crystal under Micromotion

Y. -K. Wu, Z. -D. Liu, W. -D. Zhao +1

Ion trap is one of the most promising candidates for quantum computing. Current schemes mainly focus on a linear chain of up to about one hundred ions in a Paul trap. To further sc…