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quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum digital signatures

Jing-Wei Bian, Bing-Hong Li, Yuan-Mei Xie +2

Quantum digital signatures (QDSs), which distribute and measure quantum states by key generation protocols and then sign messages via classical data processing, are a key area of i…

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★ 17 cited

Finite-Key Analysis for Coherent One-Way Quantum Key Distribution

Ming-Yang Li, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yuan-Mei Xie +2

Coherent-one-way (COW) quantum key distribution (QKD) is a significant communication protocol that has been implemented experimentally and deployed in practical products due to its…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Asynchronous measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with hybrid source

Jun-Lin Bai, Yuan-Mei Xie, Yao Fu +2

The linear constraint of secret key rate capacity is overcome by the tiwn-field quantum key distribution (QKD). However, the complex phase-locking and phase-tracking technique requ…

quant-ph2023★ 5 cited

Phase-Matching Quantum Key Distribution without Intensity Modulation

Shan-Feng Shao, Xiao-Yu Cao, Yuan-Mei Xie +5

Quantum key distribution provides a promising solution for sharing secure keys between two distant parties with unconditional security. Nevertheless, quantum key distribution is st…

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-ph2023★ 43 cited

One-Time Universal Hashing Quantum Digital Signatures without Perfect Keys

Bing-Hong Li, Yuan-Mei Xie, Xiao-Yu Cao +4

Quantum digital signatures (QDS), generating correlated bit strings among three remote parties for signatures through quantum law, can guarantee non-repudiation, authenticity, and…

quant-ph2022★ 14 cited

All-Photonic Quantum Repeater for Multipartite Entanglement Generation

Chen-Long Li, Yao Fu, Wen-Bo Liu +5

Quantum network applications like distributed quantum computing and quantum secret sharing present a promising future network equipped with quantum resources. Entanglement generati…

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★ 44 cited

Breaking Rate-Distance Limitation of Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Secret Sharing

Chen-Long Li, Yao Fu, Wen-Bo Liu +5

Currently most progresses on quantum secret sharing suffer from rate-distance bound, and thus the key rates are limited. In addition to the limited key rate, the technical difficul…

quant-ph2022★ 25 cited

Breaking universal limitations on quantum conference key agreement without quantum memory

Chen-Long Li, Yao Fu, Wen-Bo Liu +5

Quantum conference key agreement is an important cryptographic primitive for future quantum network. Realizing this primitive requires high-brightness and robust multiphoton entang…

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★ 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★ 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-ph2021★ 46 cited

Secure Quantum Secret Sharing without Signal Disturbance Monitoring

Hua-Lei Yin, Jie Gu, Yuan-Mei Xie +3

Quantum secret sharing (QSS) is an essential primitive for the future quantum internet, which promises secure multiparty communication. However, developing a large-scale QSS networ…

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…