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most citedBreaking the Rate-Loss Bound of Quantum Key Distribution with Asynchronous Two-Photon Interference

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quant-ph2026★ 6 cited

Experimental Coherent One-Way Quantum Key Distribution with Simplicity and Practical Security

Xiao-Yu Cao, Xiao-Ran Sun, Ming-Yang Li +3

Coherent one-way quantum key distribution (COW-QKD) has been widely investigated, and even been deployed in real-world quantum network. However, the proposal of the zero-error atta…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Experimentally validated quantum-secure federated learning over a multi-user quantum network

Zhi-Ping Liu, Xiao-Yu Cao, Hao-Wen Liu +6

Federated learning enables decentralized, privacy-preserving training but remains vulnerable to privacy leakage in the quantum era. Quantum federated learning (QFL) offers a promis…

quant-ph2024★ 13 cited

Multi-field quantum conferencing overcomes the network capacity limit

Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yao Fu +2

Quantum conferencing enables multiple nodes within a quantum network to share a secure group key for private message broadcasting. The key rate, however, is limited by the repeater…

quant-ph2024★ 22 cited

Repeater-like asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum conference key agreement

Yu-Shuo Lu, Hua-Lei Yin, Yuan-Mei Xie +2

Quantum conference key agreement enables secure communication among multiple parties by leveraging multipartite entanglement, which is expected to play a crucial role in future qua…

quant-ph2023★ 28 cited

Advantages of Asynchronous Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution in Intercity Networks

Yuan-Mei Xie, Jun-Lin Bai, Yu-Shuo Lu +3

The new variant of measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD), called asynchronous MDI-QKD or mode-pairing MDI-QKD, offers similar repeater-like rate-loss sc…

quant-ph2022★ 150 cited

Experimental Quantum Communication Overcomes the Rate-loss Limit without Global Phase Tracking

Lai Zhou, Jinping Lin, Yuan-Mei Xie +4

Secure key rate (SKR) of point-point quantum key distribution (QKD) is fundamentally bounded by the rate-loss limit. Recent breakthrough of twin-field (TF) QKD can overcome this li…

quant-ph2022★ 39 cited

Beating the fault-tolerance bound and security loopholes for Byzantine agreement with a quantum solution

Chen-Xun Weng, Rui-Qi Gao, Yu Bao +6

Byzantine agreement, the underlying core of blockchain, aims to make every node in a decentralized network reach consensus. Classical Byzantine agreements unavoidably face two majo…

quant-ph2022★ 23 cited

Source-independent quantum random number generator against tailored detector blinding attacks

Wen-Bo Liu, Yu-Shuo Lu, Yao Fu +5

Randomness, mainly in the form of random numbers, is the fundamental prerequisite for the security of many cryptographic tasks. Quantum randomness can be extracted even if adversar…

quant-ph2021★ 287 cited

Breaking the Rate-Loss Bound of Quantum Key Distribution with Asynchronous Two-Photon Interference

Yuan-Mei Xie, Yu-Shuo Lu, Chen-Xun Weng +7

Twin-field quantum key distribution can overcome the secret key capacity of repeaterless quantum key distribution via single-photon interference. However, to compensate for the cha…

quant-ph2021★ 25 cited

Scalable High-Rate Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution Networks without Constraint of Probability and Intensity

Yuan-Mei Xie, Chen-Xun Weng, Yu-Shuo Lu +4

Implementation of a twin-field quantum key distribution network faces limitations, including the low tolerance of interference errors for phase-matching type protocols and the stri…

quant-ph2021★ 46 cited

Experimental quantum advantage with quantum coupon collector

Min-Gang Zhou, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yu-Shuo Lu +6

An increasing number of communication and computational schemes with quantum advantages have recently been proposed, which implies that quantum technology has fertile application p…

quant-ph2021★ 36 cited

Coherent one-way quantum conference key agreement based on twin field

Xiao-Yu Cao, Jie Gu, Yu-Shuo Lu +2

Quantum conference key agreement (CKA) enables key sharing among multiple trusted users with information-theoretic security. Currently, the key rates of most quantum CKA protocols…

quant-ph2021★ 216 cited

Experimental quantum secure network with digital signatures and encryption

Hua-Lei Yin, Yao Fu, Chen-Long Li +6

Cryptography promises four information security objectives, namely, confidentiality, integrity, authenticity, and non-repudiation, to support trillions of transactions annually in…

quant-ph2021★ 55 cited

Efficient Quantum Digital Signatures without Symmetrization Step

Yu-Shuo Lu, Xiao-Yu Cao, Chen-Xun Weng +5

Quantum digital signatures (QDS) exploit quantum laws to guarantee non-repudiation, unforgeability and transferability of messages with information-theoretic security. Current QDS…

quant-ph2021★ 26 cited

Overcoming the rate-distance limit of device-independent quantum key distribution

Yuan-Mei Xie, Bing-Hong Li, Yu-Shuo Lu +4

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) exploits the violation of a Bell inequality to extract secure key even if the users' devices are untrusted. Currently, all DIQKD…

quant-ph2021★ 24 cited

Secure and practical multiparty quantum digital signatures

Chen-Xun Weng, Yu-Shuo Lu, Rui-Qi Gao +6

Quantum digital signatures (QDSs) promise information-theoretic security against repudiation and forgery of messages. Compared with currently existing three-party QDS protocols, mu…

quant-ph2021★ 10 cited

Homodyne Detection Quadrature Phase Shift Keying Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution with High Excess Noise Tolerance

Wen-Bo Liu, Chen-Long Li, Yuan-Mei Xie +7

Discrete-modulated continuous-variable quantum key distribution with homodyne detection is widely recognized for its ease of implementation, efficiency with respect to error correc…

quant-ph2020★ 21 cited

High key rate quantum conference key agreement with unconditional security

Xiao-Yu Cao, Yu-shuo Lu, Zhao Li +3

Quantum cryptography is a major ingredient of the future quantum internet that promises various secure communication tasks. Quantum conference key agreement (CKA) is an important c…

quant-ph2020

Simplified BB84 quantum key distribution secure against coherent attacks

Yu-Shuo Lu, Hua-Lei Yin, Zeng-Bing Chen

Decoy-state quantum key distribution (QKD) has convincingly been shown the core solution to secure key exchange. While standard BB84 protocol needs to prepare and measure all state…

quant-ph2020★ 70 cited

Tight security bounds for decoy-state quantum key distribution

Hua-Lei Yin, Min-Gang Zhou, Jie Gu +3

The BB84 quantum key distribution (QKD) combined with decoy-state method is currently the most practical protocol, which has been proved secure against general attacks in the finit…