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most citedLong-distance entanglement purification for quantum communication

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quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

A Metropolitan-scale Multiplexed Quantum Repeater with Bell Nonlocality

Tian-Xiang Zhu, Chao Zhang, Zhong-Wen Ou +7

Quantum repeaters can overcome exponential photon loss in optical fibers, enabling heralded entanglement between distant quantum memories. The definitive benchmark for this entangl…

quant-ph2025★ 11 cited

Observation of Genuine High-dimensional Multi-partite Non-locality in Entangled Photon States

Xiao-Min Hu, Cen-Xiao Huang, Nicola d'Alessandro +10

Quantum information science has leaped forward with the exploration of high-dimensional quantum systems, offering greater potential than traditional qubits in quantum communication…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Experimental Catalytic Amplification of Asymmetry

Chao Zhang, Xiao-Min Hu, Feng Ding +6

The manipulation and transformation of quantum resources are key parts of quantum mechanics. Among them, asymmetry is one of the most useful operational resources, which is widely…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Randomness versus Nonlocality in Multi-input and Multi-output Quantum Scenario

Chao Zhang, Yi Li, Xiao-Min Hu +7

Device-independent randomness certification based on Bell nonlocality does not require any assumptions about the devices and therefore provides adequate security. Great effort has…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Higher-dimensional symmetric informationally complete measurement via programmable photonic integrated optics

Lan-Tian Feng, Xiao-Min Hu, Ming Zhang +11

Symmetric informationally complete measurements are both important building blocks in many quantum information protocols and the seminal example of a generalised, non-orthogonal, q…

quant-ph2023★ 9 cited

Experimental verification of the steering ellipsoid zoo via two-qubit states

Kai Xu, Lijun Liu, Ning-Ning Wang +6

Quantum steering ellipsoid visualizes the set of all qubit states that can be steered by measuring on another correlated qubit in the Bloch picture. Together with local reduced sta…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Experimental verification of bound and multiparticle entanglement with the randomized measurement toolbox

Chao Zhang, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Nikolai Wyderka +10

In recent years, analysis methods for quantum states based on randomized measurements have been investigated extensively. Still, in the experimental implementations these methods w…

quant-ph2023★ 48 cited

Nonlocal photonic quantum gates over 7.0 km

Xiao Liu, Xiao-Min Hu, Tian-Xiang Zhu +8

Quantum networks provide a prospective paradigm to connect separated quantum nodes, which relies on the distribution of long-distance entanglement and active feedforward control of…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

A Variational Approach to Unique Determinedness in Pure-state Tomography

Chao Zhang, Xuanran Zhu, Bei Zeng

In pure-state tomography, the concept of unique determinedness (UD) -- the ability to uniquely determine pure states from measurement results -- is crucial. This study presents a n…

quant-ph2023

Experimental demonstration of quantum cooling engine powered by entangled measurement

Ning-Ning Wang, Huan Cao, Chao Zhang +5

Traditional refrigeration is driven either by external force or an information-feedback mechanism. Surprisingly, the quantum measurement and collapse, which are generally detriment…

quant-ph2022★ 25 cited

Certification of non-classicality in all links of a photonic star network without assuming quantum mechanics

Ning-Ning Wang, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Chao Zhang +6

Networks composed of independent sources of entangled particles that connect distant users are a rapidly developing quantum technology and an increasingly promising test-bed for fu…

quant-ph2022

Detecting Entanglement by Pure Bosonic Extension

Xuanran Zhu, Chao Zhang, Chenfeng Cao +3

In the realm of quantum information theory, the detection and quantification of quantum entanglement stand as paramount tasks. The relative entropy of entanglement (REE) serves as…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

Experimental beating the standard quantum limit under non-markovian dephasing environment

Huan Cao, Chao Zhang, Yun-Feng Huang +4

Entanglement enhanced quantum metrology has been well investigated for beating the standard quantum limit (SQL). However, the metrological advantage of entangled states becomes muc…

quant-ph2022★ 3 cited

Experimental implementation of Hardy-like quantum pigeonhole paradoxes

Shihao Ru, Cen-Xiao Huang, Xiao-Min Hu +7

We present the general Hardy-like quantum pigeonhole paradoxes for \textit{n}-particle states, and find that each of such paradoxes can be simply associated to an un-colorable solu…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Experimental Examination of Entanglement Estimates

Songbo Xie, Yuan-Yuan Zhao, Chao Zhang +4

Recently a proper genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) measure has been found for three-qubit pure states [see Xie and Eberly, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040403 (2021)], but capturin…

quant-ph2022★ 60 cited

Entanglement swapping and quantum correlations via Elegant Joint Measurements

Cen-Xiao Huang, Xiao-Min Hu, Yu Guo +8

We use hyper-entanglement to experimentally realize deterministic entanglement swapping based on quantum Elegant Joint Measurements. These are joint projections of two qubits onto…

quant-ph2022★ 21 cited

Experimental Demonstration that No Tripartite-Nonlocal Causal Theory Explains Nature's Correlations

Huan Cao, Marc-Olivier Renou, Chao Zhang +7

Quantum theory predicts the existence of genuinely tripartite-entangled states, which cannot be obtained from local operations over any bipartite entangled states and unlimited sha…

quant-ph2022★ 22 cited

Semi-device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in a photonic quantum switch

Huan Cao, Jessica Bavaresco, Ning-Ning Wang +7

We report an experimental certification of indefinite causal order that relies only on the characterization of the operations of a single party. We do so in the semi-device-indepen…

quant-ph2021★ 9 cited

Certification of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with General and Robust Device-independent Witnesses

Chao Zhang, Wen-Hao Zhang, Pavel Sekatski +12

Genuine multipartite entanglement represents the strongest type of entanglement, which is an essential resource for quantum information processing. Standard methods to detect genui…

quant-ph2021★ 285 cited

Long-distance entanglement purification for quantum communication

Xiao-Min Hu, Cen-Xiao Huang, Yu-Bo Sheng +8

High-quality long-distance entanglement is essential for both quantum communication and scalable quantum networks. Entanglement purification is to distill high-quality entanglement…

quant-ph2021

Quantum simulation of indefinite causal order induced quantum refrigeration

Huan Cao, Ning-ning Wang, Zhih-Ahn Jia +6

In the classical world, physical events always happen in a fixed causal order. However, it was recently revealed that quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causa…

quant-ph2020★ 65 cited

Pathways for entanglement based quantum communication in the face of high noise

Xiao-Min Hu, Chao Zhang, Yu Guo +10

Entanglement based quantum communication offers an increased level of security in practical secret shared key distribution. One of the fundamental principles enabling this security…

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★ 17 cited

Simulating noisy variational quantum eigensolver with local noise models

Jinfeng Zeng, Zipeng Wu, Chenfeng Cao +4

Variational quantum eigensolver (VQE) is promising to show quantum advantage on near-term noisy-intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. One central problem of VQE is the effec…