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most citedField and long-term demonstration of a wide area quantum key distribution network

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quant-ph2026

Relativistic Position Verification with Coherent States

Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Yang-Guang Shan, Cong Zhang +10

Determining the position of an entity is a fundamental prerequisite for nearly all activities. Classical means, however, have been proven incapable of providing secure position ver…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

5-GHz chip-based quantum key distribution with 1Mbps secure key rate over 150 km

Guo-Wei Zhang, Sheng-Teng Zheng, You Xiao +16

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables secure communication by harnessing the fundamental principles of quantum physics, which inherently guarantee information-theoretic security a…

quant-ph2025

Microcomb-driven large-scale fully connected quantum network

Fang-Xiang Wang, Sheng-Teng Zheng, Long Huang +15

Fully connected quantum networks enable simultaneously connecting every user to every other user and are the most versatile and robust networking architecture. However, the scalabi…

quant-ph2025

Photorefractive-based on-chip optical power limiter against light-injection attacks in quantum key distribution

Min Chen, Hong-Yan Song, Jia-Lin Chen +10

Light-injection attacks pose critical security threats to quantum key distribution (QKD) systems. Conventional countermeasures, such as isolators, filters, and optical power monito…

quant-ph2025

Fault-Tolerant Quantum Key Distribution: Enabling Overclocked Modulation

Feng-Yu Lu, Jia-Xuan Li, Ze-Hao Wang +8

Implementation security, higher generation rate, and lower cost are primary missions in the domain of quantum key distributions in recent years. However, simultaneously achieving r…

quant-ph2025

Secure quantum key distribution against correlated leakage source

Jia-Xuan Li, Yang-Guang Shan, Rong Wang +7

Quantum key distribution (QKD) provides information theoretic security based on quantum mechanics, however, its practical deployment is challenged by imperfections of source device…

quant-ph2025

Side-channel-secure quantum key distribution with correlated sources

Yang-Guang Shan, Jia-Xuan Li, Zhen-Qiang Yin +5

Quantum key distribution (QKD) offers theoretical security guarantees for sharing secure key, but its practical systems face challenges due to the imperfections of devices. Widespr…

quant-ph2025

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution with asymmetric sources

Jia-Ju Deng, Feng-Yu Lu, Zhen-Qiu Zhong +7

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD), which eliminates all the attacks from the eavesdropper to the measurement party, has been one of the most promisi…

quant-ph2025

Implementing an information-theoretically secure Byzantine agreement with quantum signed message solution

Yao Zhou, Feng - Yu Lu, Zhen - Qiang Yin +4

Byzantine agreement (BA) enables all honest nodes in a decentralized network to reach consensus. In the era of emerging quantum technologies, classical cryptography-based BA protoc…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Quantum key distribution overcoming practical correlated intensity fluctuations

Jia-Xuan Li, Feng-Yu Lu, Ze-Hao Wang +8

Intensity correlations between neighboring pulses open a prevalent yet often overlooked security loophole in decoy-state quantum key distribution (QKD). As a solution, we present a…

quant-ph2025

Optical information encryption using general temporal ghost imaging with practical experimental condition

Juan Wu, Xiaohai Zhan, Fang-Xiang Wang +5

Temporal Ghost Imaging (TGI), which reconstructs fast temporal signals using a slow detector, holds significant potential in optical communication, high-speed imaging, and quantum…

quant-ph2024

Improved postselection security analysis of phase error estimation in quantum key distribution

Yang-Guang Shan, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang +4

Quantum key distribution (QKD) enables the generation of secure keys between two distant users. Security proof of QKD against general coherent attacks is challenging, while the one…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Sending-or-not-sending quantum key distribution with phase postselection

Yang-Guang Shan, Yao Zhou, Zhen-Qiang Yin +5

Quantum key distribution (QKD) could help to share secure key between two distant peers. In recent years, twin-field (TF) QKD has been widely investigated because of its long trans…

quant-ph2023

Precise Phase Error Rate Analysis for Quantum Key Distribution with Phase Postselection

Yao Zhou, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Yang-Guang Shan +5

Quantum key distribution (QKD) stands as a pioneering method for establishing information-theoretically secure communication channels by utilizing the principles of quantum mechani…

quant-ph2023

Fully passive Measurement Device Independent Quantum Key Distribution

Xiang Wang, Feng-Yu Lu, Ze-Hao Wang +6

Measurement-device-independent quantum key distribution (MDI-QKD) can resist all attacks on the detection devices, but there are still some security issues related to the source si…

quant-ph2023

Practical Phase-Coding Side-Channel-Secure Quantum Key Distribution

Yang-Guang Shan, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang +4

All kinds of device loopholes give rise to a great obstacle to practical secure quantum key distribution (QKD). In this article, inspired by the original side-channel-secure protoc…

quant-ph2023

Realizing fully reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution by exploiting quantum discord

Rong Wang, Chun-Mei Zhang

Reference-frame-independent quantum key distribution was proposed to generate a string of secret keys without a shared reference frame. Based on the Bloch sphere, however, the secu…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Experimental demonstration of fully passive quantum key distribution

Feng-Yu Lu, Ze-Hao Wang, Víctor Zapatero +10

The passive approach to quantum key distribution (QKD) consists of removing all active modulation from the users' devices, a highly desirable countermeasure to get rid of modulator…

quant-ph2023

Secure Key from Quantum Discord

Rong Wang, Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Zhen-Qiang Yin +6

The study of quantum information processing seeks to characterize the resources that enable quantum information processing to perform tasks that are unfeasible or inefficient for c…

quant-ph2023★ 43 cited

Induced-photorefractive attack against Quantum Key Distribution

Peng Ye, Wei Chen, Guo-Wei Zhang +8

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN) devices play critical roles in quantum information processing. However, for special applications like quantum key distribution (QKD), the characteristi…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Quantum Discord Witness With Uncharacterized Devices

Rong Wang, Yao Yao, Zhen-Qiang Yin

Quantum discord represents a correlation beyond classicality that could be useful for many quantum information tasks, and therefore is viewed as a valuable quantum resource. Theore…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Tight finite-key analysis for mode-pairing quantum key distribution

Ze-Hao Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Shuang Wang +6

Mode-pairing quantum key distribution (MP-QKD) is a potential protocol that is not only immune to all possible detector side channel attacks, but also breaks the repeaterless rate-…

quant-ph2023★ 40 cited

Experimental demonstration of drone-based quantum key distribution

Xiao-Hui Tian, Ran Yang, Hua-Ying Liu +14

Quantum state transferring has been demonstrated using drones via entanglement distribution. Here we demonstrate the first drone-based quantum task, for quantum key distribution (Q…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Twin-field quantum key distribution with partial phase postselection

Yao Zhou, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Rui-Qiang Wang +4

Quantum key distribution (QKD) allows two remote parties to share information-theoretically secure keys. In recent years, a revolutionary breakthrough called twin-field (TF) QKD ha…