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

287 citations · 892 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

Experimental demonstration of scalable quantum blockchain with exponentially superior quantum communication complexity

Feng Xie, Ming-Yang Li, Yongqiang Du +11

To secure modern distributed digital infrastructures, quantum blockchains exploit quantum resources to achieve information-theoretic security and surpass the classical one-third fa…

quant-ph2026

A fault-tolerant quantum blockchain deployed on commercial telecommunications network

Yongqiang Du, Chen-Xun Weng, Feng Xie +10

Popularized by the Bitcoin cryptocurrency, blockchain technology establishes a decentralized digital framework that utilizes cryptographic and consensus protocols to secure data ag…

quant-ph2026

Scalable and Highly Fault-Tolerant Circular Quantum Byzantine Agreement

Chen-Xun Weng, Ming-Yang Li, Shi-Gen Li +4

Quantum Byzantine agreement (QBA), a cornerstone of quantum blockchain, offers inherent advantages in security and fault tolerance over classical protocols, guaranteed by the laws…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Information-theoretically secure quantum timestamping with one-time universal hashing

Ming-Yang Li, Chen-Xun Weng, Wen-Bo Liu +2

Accurate and tamper-resistant timestamps are essential for applications demanding verifiable chronological ordering, such as legal documentation and digital intellectual property p…

quant-ph2025

Experimental asymmetric relativistic zero-knowledge proofs with unconditional security

Chen-Xun Weng, Ming-Yang Li, Nai-Rui Xu +6

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) are widely applied in digital economies, such as cryptocurrencies and smart contracts, for establishing trust and privacy between untrusted parties. Cl…

quant-ph2024★ 30 cited

Experimental Quantum Byzantine Agreement on a Three-User Quantum Network with Integrated Photonics

Xu Jing, Cheng Qian, Chen-Xun Weng +11

Quantum communication networks are crucial for both secure communication and cryptographic networked tasks. Building quantum communication networks in a scalable and cost-effective…

quant-ph2023★ 89 cited

Experimental quantum secret sharing based on phase encoding of coherent states

Ao Shen, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yang Wang +6

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is one of the basic communication primitives in future quantum networks which addresses part of the basic cryptographic tasks of multiparty communicati…

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★ 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-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★ 31 cited

Long-distance twin-field quantum key distribution with entangled sources

Bing-Hong Li, Yuan-Mei Xie, Zhao Li +4

Twin-field quantum key distribution (TFQKD), using single-photon-type interference, offers a way to exceed the rate-distance limit without quantum repeaters. However, it still suff…

quant-ph2021★ 31 cited

Finite-key Analysis for Quantum Conference Key Agreement with Asymmetric Channels

Zhao Li, Xiao-Yu Cao, Chen-Long Li +4

As an essential ingredient of quantum networks, quantum conference key agreement (QCKA) provides unconditional secret keys among multiple parties, which enables only legitimate use…

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★ 26 cited

Simple security proof of coherent-one-way quantum key distribution

Rui-Qi Gao, Yuan-Mei Xie, Jie Gu +5

Coherent-one-way quantum key distribution (COW-QKD), which requires a simple experimental setup and has the ability to withstand photon-number-splitting attacks, has been not only…

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★ 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…